Pier Giorgio Bellocchio

Winner of the FIPRESCI award, this haunting portmanteau from director Marco Bellocchio is a shrewd social commentary steeped in striking gothic imagery. Set in a convent-prison, the film shifts from past to present, crafting a story that is a love letter to Italy’s past and a critique of its stasis.

In the early 1910s, Ida Dalser fell for the future Italian leader Benito Mussolini, supported him through unemployment, married him, and bore his son. Losing touch during World War I, they meet again in a hospital, where she also discovers he had married another woman in the meantime.

Captured by a ruthless gang of criminals, master thief Diabolik (Giacomo Gianniotti) and Inspector Ginko find themselves face to face, locked in a cell with no way out. Certain of facing an inevitable death, Diabolik reveals his mysterious origin story. Meanwhile, Eva Kant (Miriam Leone) and Altea (Monica Bellucci) are desperately looking for them. Will the paths of the two rivals cross again?

A scientist studying alien abductions learns that several alien races have been installing their active memories in people's brains for millennia.

Filmmaker Marco Bellocchio, through his family, tells the story of his twin brother, Camillo, whom he lost to suicide in 1968.

Diabolik (Giacomo Gianniotti) and Eva Kant (Miriam Leone) seem to have planned the perfect heist, but a trap set by the cunning Inspector Ginko puts their partnership to the test. Feeling betrayed, Eva offers to help the inspector capture Diabolik. But Ginko must also deal with the unexpected arrival of the Duchess of Vallenberg (Monica Bellucci)...