Vincenzo Amato
2) L'Immensita
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Clara (Penélope Cruz) and Felice struggle to raise their three children in 1970s Rome. The eldest, Andrew, is transgender and yearns for another life where he gets to live as the boy he knows himself to be. Clara instinctively strives to protect her son by escaping into their imaginations to defuse family tensions. L'IMMENSITA is a creative and moving film about growing up and breaking the mold.
3) L'immensità
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"Overview Clara and her emotionally distant husband Felice relocate to Rome to raise a family. Even though the paint is fresh, and the appliances are new, the crushing expectations around marriage, desire, and gender in the early 1970s remain as traditional as ever. Their children Andrew, Gino, and Diana are likewise poised at a precipice, on the verge of adolescence, with nothing but their imaginations to defuse family tensions. The eldest child,...
4) The Wannabe
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The story of a man obsessed with Mafia culture as he attempts to become a part of this lifestyle by fixing the 1992 trial of infamous mobster John Gotti and going on a crime spree of his own. Based on true events,
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Davide is unlike most teenagers his age and his father constantly berates him over these differences. Finally, feeling driven from home, 14-year-old Davide takes to the streets and finds a hidden world the rest of the city has turned its back on. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival**.
6) Golden Door
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When a Sicilian family is visited by a man who tells them that America is a land of plenty, the Mancusos cautiously accept his offer to take them to America in 1913. After a dangerous voyage aboard an ocean liner, the family arrives in New York to face a number of new challenges, as they abandon their old lives and struggle to assimilate in a massive city that is now their home.
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Paolo, an Italian who drives a Paris tour bus, has just proposed to his true love, the German stewardess, Greta, when the young French beauty, Cecile pulls up beside his bus on her bicycle; and, in short order, Paolo, following some very bad advice from his friend, Derek, finds himself with a German fiancee, a French 'wife', two Australian children who call him 'Papa', and his life upside-down.