Dopo mezzanotte (After Midnight)

Directed by Davide Ferrario, starring Giorgio Pasotti, Francesca Inaudi, Fabio Troiano, Francesca Picozza, Silvio Orlando (narrator), Italy, 2004, 92’

Martino is a night watchman at the National Cinema Museum in Turin. He stays up every night watching movies from the past while he dreams of Amanda, who works in a fast food restaurant. He is a regular client at the restaurant where she works and is secretly in love with her. After Amanda has a violent fight with her employer, she runs away and finds refuge at the museum, entering Martino’s magical world.

Naturally, the film’s main set is the National Cinema Museum. Many movies and documentaries have been filmed there, including The Tulse Luper Suitcases part 3 by Peter Greenaway and Women vs. Men by Fausto Brizzi. Movies set in the Mole Antonelliana before it became the Cinema Museum include Al bar dello sport by Francesco Massaro, Enigma by Jean Rouch, Everybody’s Fine by Giuseppe Tornatore and We All Fall Down by Davide Ferrario.