Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (US). Dir. Larry Charles, starring Sacha Baron Cohen. Comedy documentary in which Baron Cohen in his wonderfully insulting persona of the Kazakhstan journalist heads for the United States after falling in love with Pamela Anderson, leaving bewilderment and horror in his wake.

A casa nostra (It). Dir. Francesca Comencini, starring Valeria Golino and Luca Zingaretti. Interweaving stories of people whose lives cross in their search for money in Milan, surrounded by pensioners, prostitutes and assassins.

Il giorno + bello (It). Dir. Massimo Cappelli, starring Violante Placido and Fabio Troiano. A model employee is asked for his hand in marriage by the girl who is in love with him in this familial comedy.

L'ultima porta (US). Dir. Graham Theakston, starring Andy Garcia and Frances O'Connor. A neurologist experiments to bring back a woman in a coma by sending the patients brother into her mind to wake her up, in the process discovering the man has the key to resolving a devastating incident in her own life.

Ricky Bobby: la storia di un uomo che sapeva contare fino a uno (US). Dir. Adam McKay, starring Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly. Slapstick black comedy about racing national heroes.

Uomini & Donne - Tutti dovrebbero venirealmeno una volta! (US). Dir. Bart Freundlich, starring David Duchovny and Julianne Moore. Relationship comedy of manners set in New York.

Viaggio segreto (It/Fr). Dir. Roberto And, starring Alessio Boni and Claudia Gerini. A psychoanalyst and his model sister living in Rome struggle to cope with the sale of their childhood home in Sicily in different ways, bringing their unhealthily close relationship to crisis point.