ROCCO PAPALEO

SOMEBODY TO LOVE (2026)

Starring Edoardo Leo, Pilar Fogliati, Emanuela Fanelli, Maria Chiara Giannetta, Claudia Pandolfi, Vittoria Puccini, Marco Giallini, Maurizio Lastrico, Rocco Papaleo and Claudio Santamaria. Directed by Paolo Genovese.

Recently separated philosophy professor and father-of-one Piero (Breaking Up In Rome’s Edoardo Leo) has arrived for dinner at the home of Lara (Pilar Fogliati), a talented furniture restorer. Lara has just ended her own relationship with a married man; indicative, she feels, of her tendency towards dead-end romances.

As the two get to know each other, they must also navigate their competing inner voices: the thoughts - whether instinctive, romantic, logical or impulsive - that guide their emotions and decisions.

As the evening evolves, Piero and Lara’s hidden desires and quirks gradually come to light, along with their hearts’ unmistakable desire to find a perfect match. Their heads, however, may have other plans.

PINOCCHIO (2020)

Starring Roberto Benigni, Federico Ielapi, Rocco Papaleo, Massimo Ceccherini, Gigi Proietti, Marine Vacth, Alessio Di Domenicantonio, Marcello Fonte, Davide Marotta and Paolo Graziosi. Directed by Matteo Garrone.

Geppetto is an old wood carver who creates a puppet. But something magical happens – the cheeky puppet begins to talk and can walk, run and eat like any young boy. Geppetto calls him Pinocchio, and brings him up as his son.

But Pinocchio finds it hard to be good. Easily led astray, he tumbles from one misadventure to another as he is tricked, kidnapped and chased by bandits through a fantastical world full of imaginative creatures – from the belly of a giant fish, to the Land Of Toys and the Field Of Miracles. His loyal friend, the Fairy, tries to make him see that his dream — to become a real boy — can never come true until Pinocchio finally changes his ways.

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