Director: Eric Esser.

Annita Malavasi was just 22 when the Germans occupied Italy, their former allies, in 1943. As a partisan in the Italian resistance named “Laila”, she moved throughout the Apennines with and between fighting units, delivering information, transporting weapons, and taking part in battles. She spent over a year in the Apennines, fighting against the German occupation. At the same time, she had to assert herself against the men of the mountain villages. By the end of the war, Laila had risen among the ranks to become one of the few female commanders in the Italian resistance.

This film chronicles the story of a lifelong struggle for emancipation that began with the battle for Italy’s liberation from fascism. Laila and her two comrades, Gina “Sonia” Moncigoli and Pierina “Iva” Bonilauri talk about their time in the Resistenza and what it meant to them and many other women.

Director: Magali Coremans.

Lia and Marcus are a couple. They observe each other from a distance. They remodel their home. They exist alongside each other. They are stuck. This is how they live. A couple, caught in the universe of a couple. Lia is awakened at night by strange noises in the house, but can never figure out the cause. She confides in Elena, the young foreign housekeeper. Lia needs an ally, but Marcus feels threatened by Elena s presence. The couple stops communicating, and Elena is forced out of her position as a mere spectator. A stranger is caught between two people, but all of her good intentions are punished. On the evening of Marcus new book presentation, the couple is almost completely grown apart. Elena feels she is the victim of Lia and Marcus  relationship. Her powerlessness drives her to extreme actions.

Director: Bartosz Kruhlik.
One day from life of an old woman with a specific approach to life, who makes a reckoning with outward things. You never know what tomorrow will bring...

Director: Kineret Hay-Gillor.
Carmel was once a promising athlete. Today, due to progressive muscular dystrophy he runs a small shop with sports equipment. His wife, Sara, helps him with everyday chores. The film’s author - Kineret Hay-Gillor – portraying the struggles of her parents with the father’s illness, draws a poignant picture, touching the topic of human devotion and love.

Director: Nestore Buonafede.
Film is from the homonymous tale of Edgar Allan Poe, adapted to Appennino Toscoemiliano, in the same period of the Author, so like in the tale. Two men, a rider and his servant, escaped from an ambush, arrive to a deserted castle. The servant takes care of his sir offended, as he can, and so the night passes. The sir, lying on the bad, look at numerous paintings appended on the walls and reads their characteristics on a catalogue there founded. Among them, an Oval Portrait, represents a young and nice woman, of whom the rider peruses her sad history: she is the painter’s wife, who, portraying her, for a long time of pain, grabs slowling and unconsciously, her vitality, removing her life and her soul into his lofty portrait.

Director: Slaven Zimbrek.
Recounting a day in life of an old woman, this film is about old age, passage of youth and, perhaps, reasons for not giving up.

Director: Slaven Zimbrek.
Štefica is a portrait of a blind woman and the main character’s first name. The film is a recount of her life, her coping with blindness, and her life-long struggle with social prejudice.