Roberto Faenza – MRQE

Escalation (1968/I)

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

1968, London. Luca is living his ‘swinging’ years away from duties and responsibilities while his father wants him to be introduced to the family business at any cost. Luca is first forced to return to Italy, then kidnapped by his father’s collaborators, placed in a sanitarium and put through electroshock therapy and other torments. Once ‘normalised’ Luca marries a woman who is in reality a psychologist paid by his father to brainwash him and turn him into a perfect businessman.

Look to the Sky

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A Jewish boy living in Amsterdam at the onset of WWII is taken to a concentration camp with his parents. Based on the memoir of Holocaust survivor Jona Oberski.

Anita B.

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After World War II, Anita, a young survivor of Auschwitz, becomes involved in an intense and passionate affair that almost shatters her until she gains the strength to start a new life.

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Precocious yet sensitive teenager James has a deep perception of the world but no idea how to live in it. Finding no help from his divorced parents nor his older memoir-writing sister, he decides to reject the beliefs adults try to push on him, starting with the college career that is looming over his last summer in New York, and embarks instead on a search for wisdom through nontraditional means…

Il caso dell’infedele Klara

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In Prague, a musician is consumed by jealousy for his beautiful girlfriend Klára. He hires a private eye to spy on her, but the plan backfires, setting in motion a series of out-of-control events.

I giorni dell’abbandono

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Olga’s life is shattered when her husband leaves her. This prompts her to fall into a period of self-degradation and self-destructive behaviors.

Alla luce del sole

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In 1990s Palermo, Pino Puglisi is a priest from the neglected Brancaccio neighborhood dedicated in helping kids to get off the streets and creating an embracing place of hope and solidarity in his church, which means trouble for the local Mafia. He continues his solitary fight until the bitter end.

Prendimi l’anima

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Zurich, 1905. 19-year-old Russian Sabina Spielrein is put by her parents in a psychiatric hospital, suffering from a severe form of hysteria and refusing to eat. A compassionate doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and, for the first time, experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher Sigmund Freud. Thus is born a sweeping story of love and passion, of body and soul, soaring to the utmost heights, but also plunging to the darkest depths of the 20th century.

Marianna Ucrìa

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In 18th-century Sicily, deaf-mute highborn Marianna Ucrìa is forced to marry his uncle Pietro, a disgusting old man, at age 13. She bears three children before even turning 16, when she finally gives birth to a boy. Despite everything, she’ll find a way to emancipate herself from the oppressive social conventions of the time.

Sostiene Pereira

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Lisbon, 1938. Mr. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of an evening paper. Although fascism is on the rise in Europe, like in nearby civil war Spain or even inside Portugal itself in the form of Salazar’s regime, Pereira only concerns himself with writing bios and translating French novels. Things change after he hires a young writer as his assistant, getting to know also his girlfriend both opponents to the regime and reluctantly helps them when they begin to get in trouble for subversive activities. Eventually, he’s forced to take a stand…