The biography of Guido Crepax, a well-known Italian comics artist who reached success in the 1960s and died in 2003, could have begun from the artistic life of his father, who was principal cellist at the Scala Theatre, or from his success as a graphic designer, which earned him the Palme d’Or for advertising. Cercando Valentina, on the contrary,
presents him through his best known character, Valentina, who was initially given only a secondary role to then become, in the years that followed, a true icon
of mystery, seduction, imagination
and eroticism. She reminded of Louise Brooks, only sketched through captivating details, by breaking down the drawing and focusing on a detail which then becomes revealing of a state of mind. By observing his creature (Valentina), it becomes
possible to unveil dreams and obsessions of Crepax, her ‘creator’.

Pak is a taxi driver, while Hoi is a pensioner who spends most of his days at the park where they accidentally meet. where they accidentally meet. They both have in common their age (they are both in their seventies) and also their secret homosexuality. They both bear on their shoulders the burden and responsibility of their families, whom Hai, a single father, had to look after on his own.
Being in the twilight of their lives, the two protagonists, despite all the difficulties, experience something they cannot do without, that is a true, gentle and unconditional love. ‘Suk Suk’ was presented at the last Berlin Film Festival
and it has won many prizes earning recognitions across the world. It is not the first film Yeung dedicates to the LGBT issue, but it remains the first feature
film in Chinese language dealing
with homosexual love in elderly age.

It is 1997 and the twenty-three-year- old Soledad Rosas leaves Argentina and her conservative family to start a new life in Italy. Soledad moves to a squat house
in Turin where she meets Edoardo Massari, with whom she starts a relationship. Happiness does not last long and in 5 March 1998 the two are arrested and charged with terrorist attacks against the high-speed railway line under construction.
The situation pushes them towards a point of no return. In her debut feature film as a director, Agustina Macri takes inspiration from Martín Caparrós’s novel to tell the troubled story of a young woman who tragically becomes the symbol of Italian anarchy.