32 IFF Love is Folly 2024

In Berlin 1942, Hilde is a member of an anti-Nazi group. She falls in love with another member, Hans. The two spend a summer together until they get caught by the Gestapo and Hilde is imprisoned, eight months pregnant.

Follows director Dragos Binder as he explores the dark secrets of his family and attempts to use his filmmaking to overcome the trauma he experienced as a child.

Albania 1958: A boy and girl grow up together in the same village. They are the best of friends. LUANA is the daughter of a well respected man, AGIM the son of traitors who were banned from the city by the communists. Despite these adverse circumstances, the two maintain their friendship over 10 years. As a young woman Luana experiences more and more to be a woman is a curse and takes unusal actions end her situation as a victim and gain power to decide for herself.

Looking for work as a violinist, Josef comes into the orbit of a rich young woman. She introduces him to a hedonistic existence free from religious intolerance. Josef gets an incredible commission: to write an opera for the San Carlo.

In Tel Aviv, Ori, an Israeli man who just failed in an attempted suicide, bumps into Anna, a French writer, at the trial of a suspected Nazi war criminal. He is shocked to recognize the love of his life, whose memory has haunted him since they fell madly in love in Turin twenty years before. But Anna maintains that they have never met. Maybe in the desert things will become clear.

Vito and Carla have been divorced for a few years. They loved each other very much before jealousy and violence destroyed their love. Now Vito has a new life and Carla has a new partner. The only bond is their three children Nicola, Rosa and little Mara. But the feeling of having avoided a foretold tragedy still hangs over Carla. When Mara asks to have her father by her side on her birthday, Carla, to make her happy, invites him to dinner. Despite the fear, the party goes surprisingly smoothly: they laugh, joke, and unwrap presents together. However after that night there was no news of Vito. He disappears into thin air without a trace. It will be the police who will shed light on his disappearance. Justice will be entrusted with the mission of finding out the truth about what happened. But is there really only one, clear, irrefutable truth in such cases?

A married palliative care nurse gets embroiled in an affair with her ill patient's husband.

It is a love story against the backdrop of fascist Italy and racial laws.

Samuele and Marzio, as teenagers, make a promise to be friends forever, but adulthood, women and everyday problems sneak into their lives.