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Ninni and his father Amelio wish to redeem their modest lifestyle. An opportunity will arise when the father, who works as an Elvis lookalike, is called to perform in a rich seaside resort. On that night, however, Ninni will be forced to come to terms with the harsh reality of the real world.

Sandy, a drama school graduate, has asthma. Tonight she will be performing at the theater. Before that, she has to teach a yoga class, work as a clown, and go to an audition. In this equation, she must fit in her boyfriend Spiros.

The two fishermen find a dolphin accidentally caught in their nets. The dolphin in its turn finds a fisherman drowning in the water. In this small Mediterranean village, an ancient myth unexpectedly comes to life.

Katrine leads a normal life, with a normal job and a normal relationship. But one day she awakes to find the world around her has changed. Or rather, its the same but she is seeing it with different eyes, noticing things she never saw before. Her reality starts to crumble. She becomes aware of small discontinuities in time and space, abruptly she is whipped from one place to another. Then she takes a closer look at the everyday objects around her, things she has seen and touched many times before are now flat, falling apart, fake. At breakneck speed she travels through this hyper-real, dark, magical thrill-ride of what used to be her life to arrive at the edge of an animation set. Here she realises that not just her surroundings are fake but she herself, a puppet, is as well. Driven to desperation she steps off the set, into the void and finds herself in the mind of her animator, her human counterpart. For a brief moment she inhabits the consciousness of her animator, soaking in her surrounding, the "real world" as, the audience, we know it. But when she realises that she is not alone in her fate, that everyone she knows, including her boyfriend Patrick, has an animator of their own, she decides to return to her puppet world and live with the knowledge of what lies behind the veil of her reality.

Lucio and Luna are imperfect beings, so skinny that they become almost invisible. Their love is passionate, extreme, violent, like their bodies destroyed by food deprivation. When Luna decides to take refuge in Lucio's house, their love will have to deal with their problem.

By an unexpected phone call, a woman realizes that her son in no longer under the protection of her "wings", as he decides to take the responsibilities of his actions.

A man and his two children are late for their flight. While they wait for the next flight something happens that changes his point of view about being a father.

Luca, a handsome middle-class guy, during a dull night at the disco is unexpectedly attracted to Susy, a girl who is not quite compliant with the standards of perfection he is accustomed to.

Manfredi is a 40-year-old unemployed man who lives with his mother Lina in the suburbs of Turin. The day he has a job interview in the bicycle delivery sector, he makes a theft that will reveal a harsh reality to him.

Two parallel journeys, Bianca's and that of a young illegal immigrant woman, come to literally overlap, seeking an impossible salvation, in spite of an almost certain shipwreck.

Children can be loud, carefree, playful, unaware, violent. Also in Taranto, an industrial city in Southern Italy which has the largest steel mill factory in Europe since the 1960s. Observing their movements and listening to their emotions, we enter the world of childhood while losing ourselves in the present of this territory, the scene of one of the most serious health and environmental disasters in Italian and European history. Bangarang is a Jamaican word meaning tumult, disorder, chaos.

A principal and a teacher conspire to protect their students from an invisible predator lurking inside their school.

Ira lives with her family at a remote location within Greece. She will face one of the strongest experiences of her childhood during a "training" session with her father, who has a very specific view for life.

Argenio is a retiree who lives a solitary life. Anastasia is a young and beautiful woman who lives by her wits. In a winter Rome, these two characters meet because of the strange Argenio's mission - to find the owner of an artificial leg that has been forgotten in a public park. This will be the beginning of a journey that will lead the protagonists to a confrontation with their own memories and those of the others - Memory that is lost and is to be refound. Like that absurd leg for which they have to find a home.

Christian tries to get his little brother Giulio to school, but he's got an early morning job he cannot afford to lose, their mother is an absent alcoholic, and the fathers are not in the picture.

The vicissitudes and adventures of a group of youngsters, left to themselves while an apparently placid and sleepy life flows undisturbed. At the mercy of the demons of growing up, of their fantasies and arrogance, like flies that hover from the rot to the silk, this group of boys will drag themselves towards a tragic and irreparable epilogue.

Matilde lives on the beach with her grandfather. To make some money, she scours the sand with her metal detector hoping to find something of value. On a cold winter morning, Matilde discovers an object that will change her life forever.

Timo, the youngest of a Greek community of Funfair workers, will have to face the hardest winter together with his loved ones.

Calabria, 1992. On a small boat in the middle of a lake, Pino and Totò imagine a different life from that which the local society has imposed on them and while they are gently rocked by the waves that crash against the side of the boat, the two boys crave a life of simple ambitions and passionate love stories. Pino and Totò were born in a Calabrian village and dream of going to America to escape from that land of Mob. Thus, when chance presents before their eyes the opportunity for a new beginning, the two do not miss it.