Valia Santella

Valia Santella

1965-05-24 Napoli 27 Credits
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The Story of Frank and Nina

The Story of Frank and Nina

2024

Screenplay

7.2
Writing

Frank, a school dropout, meets Nina, a teenage wife and mom seeking education. As they study together, their bond grows, redefining family and reality...

A Brighter Tomorrow

A Brighter Tomorrow

2023

Screenplay, Story

7.0
Writing

An old film director, unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, faces divor...

The Inner Cage

The Inner Cage

2021

Writer

7.1
Writing

A prison drama where an old mobster and a prison guard must find a way to coexist so that imprisonment can become less so, and perhaps reveal the para...

Three Floors

Three Floors

2021

Screenplay

6.4
Writing

Follows the lives of three families who live in a three-story building in a Roman neighbourhood.

The Traitor

The Traitor

2019

Screenplay

7.7
Writing

Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of...

Euphoria

Euphoria

2018

Story, Screenplay

6.5
Writing

Matteo is a young successful businessman, audacious, charming and energetic. Ettore instead, is a calm, righteous, second grade teacher always living ...

Naples in Veils

Naples in Veils

2017

Screenplay

6.2
Writing

In a Naples suspended between magic and superstition, madness and rationality, a mystery envelops the existence of Adriana, overwhelmed by a sudden lo...

Red Istanbul

Red Istanbul

2017

Screenplay

5.7
Writing

Orhan who lived in London for years and did not come back to Turkey agrees to help Deniz -a famous director- edit his first book. Deniz has been livin...

Sweet Dreams

Sweet Dreams

2016

Screenplay

6.6
Writing

Turin, 1969. Nine-year-old Massimo’s idyllic childhood is shattered by the mysterious death of his mother. The young boy refuses to accept this brutal...

Pericle

Pericle

2016

Screenplay

5.6
Writing

A failed porn actor, working as an enforcer for a mafia kingpin, finds himself confronted with an all-out turf war after an errand goes drastically wr...

Mia madre

Mia madre

2015

Writer

6.7
Writing

Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.

Honey

Honey

2013

Screenplay, Story

6.7
Writing

Irene, nicknamed 'Miele', has devote herself to people looking for help, and tries to alleviate their suffering even when they make extreme decisions....

Nina

Nina

2012

Writer

4.7
Writing

The contemporary architecture of Rome are at the heart of the beautifully shot and winsomely appealing Nina, which charts the oddball escapades of a y...

The Black Sheep

The Black Sheep

2010

First Assistant Director

8.0
Directing

Nicola is a man who has spent much of his life in a mental institution, though not always as a patient. Nicola's mother suffered from mental illness, ...

Armandino e il Madre

Armandino e il Madre

2010

Writer

5.8
Writing

An italian short comedy

Te lo leggo negli occhi

Te lo leggo negli occhi

2004

Director, Writer, Screenplay

6.5
Directing Writing
Rehearsals for War

Rehearsals for War

1998

Script Supervisor

7.2

A group of actors meet with little money in a unofficial theatre in Naples' Spanish Boroughs. Director's plan is to travel to Sarajevo, still under si...

Notes of Love

Notes of Love

1998

Script Supervisor

5.0

A woman suffering from compulsive-type psychological problems falls for an older divorced neighbour. Will her love be returned? A slow story of confus...

Aprile

Aprile

1998

Script Supervisor

7.3

Nanni Moretti takes another look at the ebbs and flows of life in April 1996, as he becomes a father for the first time and seems unable to focus on h...

Sacred Silence

Sacred Silence

1996

Script Supervisor

6.0

A young priest crusades against organized crime in his Naples neighbourhood but falls in love with a 13-year-old boy. It's the chance the gangsters we...

Troubling Love

Troubling Love

1995

Script Supervisor

6.0

When her elderly mother is found dead under sordid circumstances, Delia returns to her native Naples for the first time in years to attend the funeral...

La scuola

La scuola

1995

Script Supervisor

6.8

In a high school in the outskirts of Rome, it's the last day before the summer holidays. A literature teacher reminisces the past year and wonders wha...

Sud

Sud

1993

Script Supervisor

6.8

During a hot Sunday afternoon in a small Southern Italian town, a school serving as a polling place is occupied by a group of three locals and an Erit...

Arriva la bufera

Arriva la bufera

1993

Script Supervisor

5.8

Depressed magistrate Damiano Fortezza relocates from Milan to a small town in Campania, where the three Fontana sisters, owners of a chain of incinera...

Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician

Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician

1992

Script Supervisor

6.8

Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin's grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the psychiatric hospital...

The Yes Man

The Yes Man

1991

Script Supervisor

7.1

Cesare Botero, an ambitious and corrupt young minister, hires a new spokesman, honest and polite high school professor Luciano Sandulli.

It Will Happen Tonight

N/A

Screenplay

Writing

The film will explore contemporary emotions, fears, and relationships through intertwined stories, resembling Nevo's narrative style.