Mohammed and Abdallah are two young Palestinians from Gaza. Since a few years they have practiced Parkour, a discipline they discovered on YouTube. The passion for this art leads them to create a group of practitioners in the quarter where they live. One day, their biggest dream comes true: leaving the Gaza Strip to go to Italy to meet the Italian practitioners. During this ...
Bosnia, Ramadan 2013. During the doomsday, so the Koran says, the mountains will rise up as a feather. A merciless calamity or an eventual release from the burden of pain? The film gives voice to a daring personal attempt to understand the suffering and the resistence in Bosnia. Mostar and Sarajevo are seen in passing, through the fragmented viewpoints of a confraternity of ...
Claudio, a vegan runs all by himself a traditional farm without the use of machines and lives his life richly without the gaudery of modern life, following a path of self-enlightening inspired by nature through daily examples. Farming is an hard work, but leaves Claudio's mind free to think about the meaning of his life and to reapproach his real being gaining awareness ...
Many neighborhoods in Naples still celebrate the ritual of the bonfires of Saint Anthony in mid January. Kids start collecting firewood after New Year’s, sometimes venturing far from home to look for it. Every group stashes their wood in a different hiding place, “the secret,” so they can protect it from being raided by other neighboring groups. Checco Lecc...
Asier and I grew up in the Basque Country. One day he disappeared and I found out he had joined ETA. How could I explain the reasons that led Asier to make a decision, which even I had trouble grasping?
AL CINEMA Film personale molto forte, girato in soggettiva dal regista, che si confronta con il fratello più giovane, tossico dipendente, durante un viaggio in treno verso Auschwitz, pretesto per raccontare le difficili relazioni fra i due, con l'obiettivo di ritrovare una relazione perduta. Il regista: «Mio fratello è un grande appassionato di sto...
Good Time for a Change è un film etnografico che racconta l’esperienza di Danilo, un giovane italiano che sta pensando di emigrare in Canada. Il film illustra dall’interno tutte le fasi dell’esperienza migrante e il suo incontro con la realtà canadese, dalla metropoli di Toronto fino alle foreste incontaminate del Nord dell’Ontario. All&...
A gunshot echoes from 1944, leading post-punk musician Massimo Zamboni to uncover his family’s past. Private memories collide with collective history as a new musical project is born. The Enemy – A Partisan Hymnbook is a music documentary about the memory of the Italian WWII Resistance. SYNOPSIS Fifteen years after the break-up of the historic Italian post-...
New York. The night between the 27th and 28th June, 1969, is not a night like all the others. At the Stonewall Inn, a bar in Greenwich Village, took place the first uprisings that will lead to the creation of the Gay Liberation Front in the United States. The new political procedure regarding the claiming of rights by homosexual takes the distances from the previous moviment...
Oloimugi è il nome di un albero, un tesoro per la comunità Maasai. Il film Oloimugi ritrae un giorno nella vita di un piccolo villaggio tradizionale Maasai nella Laikipia County, in Kenya centrale.
