“Os Velhos não são Trapos” portrays the daily life of a nursing home with the mission to treat people with respect and affection. Maria José Silva plays the zealous director of Lar do Futuro and she takes care of its inhabitants and employees kindheartedly and with a great sense of morals, because everyone deserves to be loved and respected.
Faithful adaptation of a story by Tomasi di Lampedusa on the encounter between a man and a mermaid, for the television series Ten Italian directors, ten Italian short stories , in which Gianni Amelio, Luigi Comencini, Carlo Lizzani participated among others.
Mimosa is about a girl growing up in an orphanage who tries to make life fun for all the residents. It's a great Easter story, an animated fairy tale about a witch kid and what she's up to in the orphanage while the mother witch whips around with her broom.
The film is inspired by the Mário de Sá-Carneiro short story, where the narration is made by Professor Antena's assistant who walks by his side when he is run over in a perhaps enigmatic way.
