
Alessio De Leonardis
Directing
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Four super-powered circus freaks find themselves trapped in war-torn Rome after their foster father is captured by the Nazis.
Freaks Out

When their father's will forces them to live together, siblings Nik and Tesla — and Tesla's kids — try to overcome their differences to become a family.
My Brother, My Sister

Summer 1943, Piedmont, Italy. Milton loves Fulvia who plays with his love: she only likes the depth of his thought and the letters he writes to her. One year later, Milton has joined the Resistance and fights beside other partisans. He learns during a conversation that Fulvia was secretly in love with his best friend Giorgio, a partisan like him. Milton decides to go find Giorgio in the Langhe region of Italy with all its misty hills...But Giorgio has just been arrested by the Fascists.
Rainbow: A Private Affair

The love story of Eva, a young immigrant who has always dreamed of becoming a singer but works as a dishwasher, and Armie, a very skilled pianist with a fervent imagination. Both will discover that fantasy, dream and life can instead mix and become the recipe for happiness. The background is New York after the Great War and before the Great Depression, in an era of music, hopes and great changes.
The Land of Dreams

Angelo is a forty-year-old messy man, nice but a bit of a scoundrel. He makes a living by selling fake paintings to rich Japanese on holiday, until one day he is unmasked and to escape the police who are hunting him he takes the first flight to an unknown destination. As luck would have it, the first plane he can catch takes him to Los Angeles. Having arrived in California penniless and with his credit cards blocked, he gets by for a few days as a bum when suddenly he comes up with a brilliant idea. Angelo, in fact, reads in a newspaper that the rich Italian-American entrepreneur Vittorio Di Spirito has died leaving a boundless inheritance to his son George, and he cannot help but notice that the dead rich man looks like his father in every way. Thanks to this resemblance, Angelo shows up at the funeral, staging a dramatic and heartfelt condolence, and then shows up at George's villa declaring that he is his brother...
Ciao, Brother!

Claudio is 50 years old and tired of his job as an real estate agent. He is also separated from his wife who left him for the "King of Zumba".
Appena un minuto

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Martedì e venerdì

Distressed by the uncertainties of a precarious job, Carlo falls prey to an ambiguous financier who, taking advantage of his naivety, offers him unexpected financial help. Carlo accepts, but it doesn't take him long to realize that he has fallen into the trap of an unscrupulous loan shark. It is useless to flee and try to disappear: the heavy threats and humiliations inflicted on his family will force him to commit an extreme act.
Il Peso Dell'Aria

A promising law student from a good family is driven by a cool cardsharper into a downward spiral of criminality, discovering a part of himself he had never known.
The Past Is a Foreign Land

In 1917, Gino Montanari, an elementary school teacher from Romagna, was forced by the principal of his school to volunteer for the First World War because of his libertine and anti-interventionist behavior. With the threat of being expelled from all schools if he refused, Gino was reluctantly sent to the front in a small outpost in Valtellina, where as a heliographer he had to transmit Morse signals with sunlight. His life would be profoundly changed by his encounter with a young illiterate man, with the enemy, and with a series of individuals from various parts of Italy.
Soldato Semplice

Giorgio is a young talented boxer who lives with his mother and dreams to became a champion.
Ghiaccio

A curious investigation into the world of Pornography in Italy, behind the scenes of a little known and interesting reality. Franco Trentalance, former porn actor with a thousand of interests talks about his life experience starting from his career to the writing to sport passing through good food. He is the protagonist as well as the guide, of this trip.
I'll Be Frank

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