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A boy in the discovery of his passion
Directed by Stephen Daldry - 2000 - UK, France - 110 min

Billy Elliot

2023 December 06 | by Arduino Mancini Asking questions - Coaching - Diversity

The film is set in the United Kingdom during the 1984 miners’ strikes prompted by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s closure of the mines. Billy is an 11-year-old boy who lives with his father Gary, brother Tony, and grandmother; his brother and father are both miners on the strike front lines as they see their futures […]

Can Roberto Benigni manage a sales training course?
Directed by R. Benigni - 1998 - Italy - 116 min

Life Is Beautiful

2022 August 03 | by Arduino Mancini Conflict - Diversity - Restructuring communication - Sales

Here is a film praised by critics from every corner of the planet, about which today I will help you discover aspects that can be extremely useful to some business roles. Which ones? Don’t be impatient: let’s see some features of the plot first, and then we will go into more detail. In the late […]

A mother in search of her son who had been stolen
Directed by Stephen Frears – 2013 – UK, France, USA - 98 min

Philomena

2022 March 02 | by Arduino Mancini Diversity - Motivation - Women's Stories

What does a woman searching for her stolen son and a journalist in the middle of a professional crisis have in common? The film’s screenplay is based on Martin Sixsmith’s novel The Lost Child of Philomena Lee, which was released in 2013 along with the film. Philomena is an Irish woman who had a baby […]

Josey, a woman ready to cope with anything - for a normal life!
Directed by Niki Caro - 2005 - USA - 126 min

North Country

2021 December 12 | by Arduino Mancini Diversity - In the company - Resilience - Women's Stories

Josey Aimes is a young woman who married a violent man. After yet another fight followed by beatings, Josey escapes with her two children, Karen and Sam, to return to her hometown in northern Minnesota and seek hospitality and help from her parents. However, the woman’s life is not simple: her job as a hairdresser […]

When reaching the goal appears to be impossible...
Directed by Simon Curtis - 2015 - UK - 109 min

Woman in Gold

2021 December 12 | by Arduino Mancini Diversity - Negotiation - Women's Stories

“Woman in Gold” tells the true story of Maria Altmann, an elderly Jew who survived the Holocaust and who discovers, on the occasion of her sister’s death, the latter’s attempt to regain ownership of a work by Gustav Klimt that belonged to her family: the portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. The painting is oil on […]

When discrimination and prejudice destroy the life of a genius
Directed by Morten Tyldum - 2014 - USA, UK - 113 minutes

The imitation game

2021 April 27 | by Arduino Mancini Diversity - Resilience - War

Plot The Imitation Game is the screen adaptation of Alan Turing’s biography (Alan Turing: The Enigma), written by Andrew Hodges in 1983 and published after the film’s release. In 1939, mathematician and cryptanalyst Alan Turing agreed to help his country, Great Britain, defeat Germany and end the world conflict in the shortest possible time; the […]

The untold story of the women who led the USA to the moon
Directed by Theodore Melfi - 2016 - USA - 127 minutes

Hidden figures

2021 March 29 | by Arduino Mancini Boss and Staff member - Change management - Diversity - Performance - Resilience

The film is based on the book Hidden Figures – The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly. The main character is Katherine Johnson, an African-American mathematician who in 1961 played a fundamental role in the Apollo 11 mission, which on 20 July 1969 took the first man […]

A movie that compares good and bad leadership
Directed by Edward Zwick - 2003 - Usa - 144 min.

The Last Samurai

2019 April 02 | by Arduino Mancini Conflict - Diversity - Leadership - Negotiation - Resilience - Stratagems - War

The film was set in Japan in 1876. Captain Nathan Algren is a man adrift. The battles he once fought now appear distant and useless; he risked his life for loyalty to his country, but since the Civil War the world has changed. Pragmatism has taken the place of courage, personal interest prevails over the […]