Daniele Natali

Tutti gli uomini del deficiente

Nearing death, videogame genius Leone Stella holds a contest to find an heir: several people named like him will compete in a live-streamed reenactment of his most famous exploits, and the winner will inherit his billion-dollar fortune.

Pineapple Chicken '98

Turin, 1998. A Chinese restaurant becomes the scene of conflict between its Chinese owners and their customers, a family that has emigrated from southern Italy. A story of immigration, stereotypes, and mistrust that culminates in a grotesque climax. In the surreal and comical finale, it is the children who try to bring together the two families, which are similar and dysfunctional at the same time.

Germanikus

The work-shy, lazy Germanicus is taken to Rome by slave traders and sold straight to the nouveau riche Roman Tusnelda. He manages to escape, but only to end up in the next misery as a taster at the imperial court. When the emperor dies, he is arrested as an emperor's assassin and is to be thrown to the tigers in the arena.With the help of the black slave Saba, he manages to win the deadly fight and is proclaimed - against his will - the new emperor of the Roman Empire.His pragmatic ideas as a statesman explain why the Roman Empire ended so abruptly. At the side of Saba, who is elevated to empress, he returns to his home village of Sumpfing, where he now promises himself completely new perspectives ...

Don't Tell

Sabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. Lately nightmares start disturbing her, and almost in the same time she discovers to be pregnant. Step by step she remembers her childhood spent within a severe middle-class family. But a big secret is hidden within her heart. Sabina wants to contact again her brother, a University teacher in the US, to try to understand what is happened in their past. What is the secret? She is determined to bring clarity and serenity in her life. She finally manages to free herself from her "beast in the heart".

Pure Hearts

Agnese and Stefano are profoundly different. She is only seventeen, lives with her mother – a harsh and devoted woman – is a regular church-goer and is about to take a vow of chastity to last until marriage. He is twenty-five, has a violent temper and a difficult past behind. He works as a warden in a car park that borders a Roma camp. Their unexpected meeting engenders a true sentiment, made of little stolen moments and mutual help.

Nevermind

A lawyer with a deplorable habit; a sitter struggling with her disturbing new job; a childhood friend who's hiding something; a chef with an unspeakable desire; a psychologist haunted by a tow truck... In each segment, a normal person suffers extremely weird, disturbing and paradoxical situations. These situations may seem incredible, yet they happen.

The Guest

Dumped by his girlfriend and finding himself stranded on different couches at friends’ places, Guido tries to transform his drift into an opportunity for a new beginning.

Troppolitani - Valle Occupato

Is art useful to man? The actors are suited to society. Passers-by are people who want to dream but have now lost confidence, laziness on the one hand, conditioning and deschooling on the other, require you to lower your sights and everyone is content to pursue modest cheap expectations. Reality and art are not in communication, impoverished by individualism, the actors and artists dance to the rhythm imposed by power, they slaughter each other, they abuse each other without realizing the possibilities of communication that open up by moving outside the choir. Rome is occupied by every step, the foot walking lightly occupies the public land. But this occupation is not news because it is lightning fast. The criteria of employment mark the time.

Sons of Italy

Inspired by a true story Sons of Italy is a romantic tale of intrigue, perseverance and ultimate destruction set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Mediterranean, Naples and Amalfi Coast. Mike Morri (Sean Kanan), is a cargo ship captain who works the sea ports on a constant basis. He's a traditional Italian with definite opinions about family and propriety. On one of his working trips to the port of Algiers, he has a chance meeting with Nabila (Sanaz Alexander), a beautiful Algerian woman who has become the property of a cruel and demanding leader of the Fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) through her parents' unpaid debts at their deaths.

Zoe

Zoe, an Italian woman, has all the things we’ve been told should make a person happy but she isn’t. On Mardi Gras, a kid dressed up as a wizard grants her three chances to find what she yearns for but if she doesn’t, she will be stuck with him forever. Zoe will find herself living in Ibiza, London and Paris experiencing different versions of Zoe, lifestyles and lovers. Although she won’t find what she was looking for once back home she will realize she has found much more.