Camilla is an untiring, successful militant lawyer, but no one seems to recognise her value. She does not spend time with and pay attention to the people around her, starting with her daughter Adele. Following an accident, she was involved in, she will turn her energies to looking for unknown places and new identities, starting with her own.

The son of a prostitute of an eastern European village, Tobias spends his new life in a watch factory. Being alienated by his monotonous work, which seems to slow down the hands of time, he finds a(nother) way out in writing and patient waiting for a woman who exists only in his imagination. Or perhaps not. As always, the arts are the shield and revenge from a tiring routine and slow speed of life. The story has a literary touch even in its photography, which has been masterfully curated by Luca Bigazzi.

Rosalba è una casalinga depressa e trascurata, madre di due adolescenti e moglie di Mimmo, uomo rozzo ed infedele. Nel corso di una gita a Paestum, viene dimenticata all’autogrill e nel tentativo di tornare a casa coglie l’occasione per una fuga improvvisata verso Venezia. Lontana dalla famiglia e dai suoi doveri si gode la sua ritrovata indipendenza lavorando in un piccolo negozio di fiori. La vita di Rosalba ritrova una dimensione nuova e riscopre interessi e rapporti che sembrava aver dimenticato.

Z, a physician and left-wing activist, dies in unusual circumstances. Investigations conducted by the appointed detective reveal responsibilities and attempts to cover them up by the Government and police. Awarded with two prizes at the Cannes Film Festival and an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, Z is a political and engaged film, which nonetheless employs the technical and narrative devices of more ‘spectacular’ films.

Pontecorvo had done the same a few years
earlier with the Algerian story.