In the 50s' and the 60s', Cecucine has offered the dream of images to the public gathered in squares and courtyards. At the age of 84, Cecucine is still playing with cinema, mixing it up with real life.
A day with Ciro, a man from Centocelle (Rome) who has had a stand at the market for forty years and Priscilla, an Irish painter and aspiring musician with a passion for roses.
Veronica is thirty-eight years old, she comes from Rumania and she has been sentenced to eight years in prison for trafficking in human beings, but she doesn't lose heart…
Interviews to different women who are asked to answer two questions: "What do you have in common with your mother? What does your mother have in common with you?" Women who tell about the deepest blood tie, the ancestral and biological bond.
The demolition of an old factory in the outskirts of Bergamo brings back to light the story of a workers' victory. In 1974, in the middle of an economic crisis, Lastex Yarn fired half of its workers. The factory is occupied and after months of protest, the workers show that the crisis is only a pretext to close and move the production lines to Malaysia, where the man pow...
"I owe you the truth in painting and I will tell it to you", said Paul Cézanne. The philosopher Gilles Deleuze considered Cézanne Straub's teacher. Fifteen years after the extraordinary Cézanneìs death, the painter is the main subject of the movie in which he lives again through the words of the young poet Joachim Gasquet during a visit at Louvre. Jean-Marie Straub and Daniè...
The City of Silence is the psychiatric hospital of Treviso. Old abandoned structures, scraped walls, walled up windows. A nurse tells about the methods used in the past and the dramatic reactions of the patients. Some written patients' testimonies found in the hospital contribute to portrait the atmosphere of this place, where thousands of patients have lived.
One day, when he was only a child, the director found in his grandparents' house an incomplete series of postcards with pictures of his family's village. These six postcards showed the events that took place in that small village, near the Spanish border, when the Republicans, escaping from the Francoist Spain, arrived to France at the end of Spanish war, in 1939. Twenty yea...
This documentary tells the story of a family. Everything revolves around the extraordinary Jewish woman Lisa Ghelfenbein, born in Odessa in 1887, who moved to Italy in the begin of the XX century to study medicine in Turin. She meets the man who will become her husband and moves to Bergamo, where she will raise a numerous family. During the period of the Italian Racial Laws,...
A young Ucrainan woman works full time as house keeper and in-house nurse. Anxiety and melancholia accompany her through her last working day, but hope dies last...
