COVER BOY: THE LAST REVOLUTION
by Carmine Amoroso – 2006 – Drama – 93mins
The story of the friendship between Ioan and Michele respectively Romanian and Italian. The serendipitous encounter of two worlds apart: the travails of a young man, son of the Post-Communist Revolution, who flees his country in search of a better future and the travails of another youth who instead scrapes along the margins of a Western society that is unable to offer gainful employment to so much of its youth.

THE NIGHT IS STILL
by Paolo Genovese – 2008 – Comedy – 98mins
The tenderness between Massimo, who works as an undertaker’s assistant but hopes to reach the big time with his rock band, and Jing, a Chinese girl whose eyes and family are the only thing Chinese about her. The film takes an entertaining look at how radically different worlds come together. In the midst of an hilarious comedy of errors, we find that desire and love know no cultural barriers.

SAIMIR
by Francesco Munz – 2004 – Drama – 88 mins
The Albanian teenager Saimir has known only the harsh life of poverty and illegality. His father makes a dangerous meager living transporting illegal immigrants from the beach to farms in the surrounding countryside. yet, when even this fails to earn a subsistence living, the two are drawn into even more serious criminal human trafficking.

GOLDEN DOOR
by Emanuele Crialese – 2006 – Drama – 120'
An Italian peasant, driven by fantastic dreams and confronted with shocking realities, makes an epic odyssey in search of a brand new world. On a perilous steamship journey from his Sicilian village, the widower Salvatore Mancuso encounters a ravishing, mystery-shrouded Englishwoman, Lucy. Salvatore and Lucy will stop at nothing to make it through the Golden Door to the America of their imaginations.

BILLO THE GRAND DAKKHAR
by Laura Muscardin – 2006 – Comedy – 90 mins
Leaving behind his mother, his fiancée and his marabout (religious advisor), Senegalese tailor Billo sets off for Rome to make it big in the fashion world. Struggling at first, he eventually hooks up with a group of sympathetic Italians, and good things start to happen; he’s safe, settled and even selling his old clothes. Then a call from Senegal arrives, telling him that everything is set for his upcoming wedding...

LETTERS FROM SAHARA
by Vittorio De Seta – 2006 – Drama – 123 mins
Assane, a young Senegalese Muslim embarks on a clandestine journey in Italy seeking a better life. Sicily, Rome, Florence...after a period of wandering, he ends up in Turin where he finds a job with the help of his Italian teacher. When Assane becomes a victim of a racist attack he begins to re-evaluate his situation.

THE MISSING STAR
by Gianni Amelio – 2006 – Drama – 103 mins
Vincenzo (Sergio Castellitto), the maintenance manager of a steel mill near Naples, is charged with the responsibility of shutting down the plant and selling the molten metal to the Chinese. When things are just wrapping up, Vincenzo realizes that the Chinese were sold a defective machine, which years earlier had caused the death of a worker. Having discovered a way to fix to machine, Vincenzo leaves for China where accompanied by an interpreter, Liu Hua, he will try to track down the plant and fix the machine.

SHORTS

TO MING by Alessandro De Toni – 2005 – 23 mins
In Milan, an illegal Chinese immigrant is looking for any kind of work, to no avail. His only refuge is a mah-jong club. A fellow countryman gives him a few tips on how to survive “in hiding”.

MARIA JESUS by Massimiliano and Gianluca De Serio – 2003 – 13mins
Maria Jesus is a docu-film: the real story of a Peruvian woman (playing herself) in the hands of the immigrants dealers. Something between the reportage of an event and the tale of the memory of the same event. Timing of the event and timing of memory gradually match: Maria cries for what is happening to her (playing, in fiction), and together with the memory of what has really happened to her.

MY BROTHER YANG Massimiliano and Gianluca De Serio – 2004 – 15mins
Bing arrives illegaly in Italy from China. Her new brother is waiting for her.

ZAKARIA by Massimiliano and Gianluca De Serio – 2005 – 15mins
The film explores aspects of life in Islamic countries and communities today.

9W ROUND TRIP by Lorenza Cerbini – 2007 – 10 mins
In Bergen County, 25 miles from Soho in downtown New York City, there is a small Italian language newspaper called "America Oggi." When the summer arrives, Lorenza takes advantage of the beautiful days by commuting from the metropolis to New Jersey by bicycle.
A round trip includes the path along the Hudson River, the gigantic and historical George Washington Bridge, as well as sunny Route 9W, which has a combination of breathtaking scenery and a strenuous workout.

CALLIGRAPHY LESSONS by Mao Weng – 2008 – 14 mins
An Italian man wants to learn how to paint Chinese calligraphy and asks a Mandarin language teacher to teach him. The Italian is learning too fast and the teacher warns him to slow down and be humble in order to fully apprehend the calligraphy art.

A GIRAFFE UNDER THE RAIN by Pascale Hecquet – 2007 – 2 mins