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- "Laughing Water - Mine Ha-Ha" is based on "Mine-Haha or Physical Education of Young Girls" by German author Frank Wedekind (Spring Awakening, Lulu, Pandora's Vase). Thuringia, Germany, in the early 20th century. A group of young girls are brought up in a college withinh dark forests and gloomy lakes. Young Hidalla and her friends Irene, Vera, Blanka, Melusine and Rain are brought up in an isolated world: the girls don't know anything about live outside the college's high walls. At the age of 16, some of them start asking questions about their origins, their parents and the true purposes of the Headmistresses strict rules. When two of them disappear mysteriously, the initial fairytale atmosphere grows more and more eerie. Will the inspector from the nearby city discover the real purpose of the college? Will Hidalla be successful in her revolt against the destiny assigned to her by the Headmistress?
- The tumultuous and adventurous life of Michelangelo Merisi, controversial artist, called by Fate to become the immortal Caravaggio. A violent genius that will dare to defy the ideal vision of the world imposed by the Renaissance painters. A provoker that scandalized patrons and institutions, raising the altars the outcast figures he knew so well: drunkards, vagrants and prostitutes.
- A hard-working young man meets and falls in love with his sister's bridesmaid. He soon finds out how disturbed she really is.
- A tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the country of Israel is being created.
- Bakhita is captured as a slave as a child, a Viennian man sees her. Many years later the man has returned to do business and recognizes her. After saving her, he takes her back to his home. The other servants think she's the devil due to her black skin, but the daughter of the house chooses her as her nanny.
- Sefano Loi the president of the Loi Pharma, when he lost his wife a tragic car accident. His life is fall apart. He tried to be continued the life before and have a good father of his two children, but everything seems desperate without his beloved wife. When he met Asia, a young, beautiful medical student girl his and family's's life change forever, and he be given second chance to love and happiness.
- How will the Germans react to the armistice of the 8th of September 1943, due to which Italy betrays them and sides with the allied forces? This is the distressing questions that a group of 16 Italian - Greek Jews evacuated at The Meina Hotel ask themselves. Hotel Meina, named after the town of Meina at Lake Maggiore, run by the Benars, a family of Turkish Jews. The grown-ups' questions are toned down by the light-heartiness of the two youngsters, Noa and Julien who are in love and full of hope in their future. The uncertainty is broken by the arrival of an SS detachment conducted by Krassler. The sixteen Jews are kept in isolation in the hotel and the never ending wait begins full of uncertainties, despair, fear and hope. Noa and Julien's love is countered by the attraction that pushes the enigmatic Krassler, uncontrollable in his Nazi faith, towards Cora, a fascinating German who is passing through, and seemingly naive and superficial. Krassler, a man both weak and inhumane, tries to pursue her relentlessly ignoring that she is in Italy to secretly help a victim of political persecution to flee the country unharmed and to find refuge in Switzerland, where the woman lives with a double-dealing man who works for the German Embassy and is also in contact with the underground anti- Nazi movement. While Noa and Julien live their very last days of love, Krassler and Cora stage a very dangerous act. Cora, having successfully carried out her mission in Switzerland, decides to go back to The Meina Hotel to help the Jews, but her escape plan is thwarted by a telegram coming from Milan: Krassler has to immediately eliminate the prisoners. Cora is able to get Noa to escape while Julien will follow the same destiny as the other Jews imprisoned: to be shot and thrown in the lake. This is the first Italian Nazi massacre of Jews. Noa's scream of pain, while she is sailing towards the Swiss shore, as she comes across the bodies of her friends that are floating on the surface, alternates with Cora's outburst against Krassler. The woman has trapped him in a greenhouse and shouts the truth at him: Germany will become a better country rising from the ashes of Nazism.
- Nobel-Peace-Prize-winner Muhammad Yunus is known to the whole world as the banker of the poor because he pioneered and tested a funding system in Bangladesh: by lending little sums of money to the less well-off with no interest and returning it by installments gained with their work, people are able to get free from extreme misery. What can happen if three boys, just graduated and living in Naples, try to import this funding system that subverts every economic rule?
- Anna discovers that she has a brother who has never known. It is his mother, after his father's death, to reveal how things went: after World War II, Anna's parents, because of poor economic conditions, had to entrust one of their children to a family of Canada. Anna is shocked by the news, and asks for help to the lawyer Nick De Lillo to find her brother. She also decided to go to Canada to look for him.
- A woman has been raped and obviously unfortunately always the same unfortunate boy, who has a wealthy record of crime acts is involved without having this time any faults at all; he cannot remember anything and also the police chief accuses of him of being ungrateful to the family , who is toiling for him to set him free by this charge. However the exaggerated reaction of a group of women out of the jail, after coming out from a visit to the assumed raper-son, convinces the mother of the accused boy to deepen her personal inquiry and after having spotted the woman in the middle of the crowd, who insulted her more than the others, she obtains the images of the insulting crowd from a source of the press and of the jail police, which was there and she also finds, where this woman comes from; she finds the surname of the woman and of the boy, who is the really serial-raper; the woman, who has been discovered reacts with violence, because she wanted to cover the crimes of the son also from shame, but in the end she feels herself guilty as a woman and wants justice to be done. So she helps the woman mother of the protagonist to find her son, and he is put opposite the victims of his further rapes [that the mother of the unjustly persecuted boy has also found in her personal inquiry],that provoke him and compel him to avow after violent reactions his previous rapes.
- Maria Celeste is a widow that lives in a retirement home. She is stingy, unpleasant, solitary and looks down on people. Every Sunday Maria sits alone on the park bench, though she tells everyone that she goes to her son's to cook a lovely meal. But on that Sunday, while dozing on the bench, a young girl places a ten month old baby in her arms and runs away leaving Maria stunned and confused. Finally the girl comes back and they start to know each other. The girl asks Maria to take the baby for a second, crosses the street and a tram hits her. She dies without a reason on a warm summer morning. Maria is alone with the baby. Her Maria Celeste's story begins.