The summer has just started and a family run circus travels adrift in the region of the Sertão. They don't have any means of transportation so every time they have to move, they hire a truck to transport all the things which were inside the tent. Their arrival to a new city is announced only by radio, the only mean of communication which is available in such isola...
A reflection on the human being, on the human condition. The city of Tallinn, capital of Estonia, offers the rare possibility of observing freely, without tricks of the eye nor violence. People welcome the watching eye naturally, they do not feel offended nor do they withdraw, they participate willingly, discreetly. In every place: in bars, on streetcars, along the street. T...
Through the interviews of Revelli, Rigoni Stern and some friends of Carlo, accompanied by the images of the journey to Russia, the archive material from the Soviet Union and the music of Massimo Zamboni (a member of CCCP-Fedeli alla linea and CSI), the documentary tells the story of a son, who progressively comprehends his father's life: a path which goes from a complete lac...
Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. was realized during the shootings of the monumental documentary Shoah. In Shoah nobody of the main Jewish characters had given testimony for Sobibor, one of only two successful uprisings at a Nazi extermination camp during the Second World War, a revolt that Lanzman defines " Jewish people's recover of their strength and violence". The rec...
Fred Leuchter, a true story. The great documentarist Errol Morris accompanies us through the eccentric story of Mr. Leuchter. Once a sought-after expert in building electric chairs, he turned into a poor sod and was fought by the same system that used him as a fundamental element when, in 1988, he was sought as a witness for the defence of Ernst Zündel on trial in Canada for...
The intarsia panels in the choir of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore were designed by Lorenzo Lotto and realized by Giovan Francesco Capoferri between 1524 and 1537. The enigmatic depictions can be understood with the help of alchemic metaphors. Starting from the "Magnum Chaos", the initial gaping void, the Man tries to reach the Light of the Truth and the Abso...
Doubts, uncertainty and images of a little girl living in 1977: unions, abortion, demonstration and… Grease!
In occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Italian Liberation Day, 18 of the best Italian rock bands were asked to record a CD. The title will be "Materiale Resistente 1945-1995" (Resistant Materials). The day the album was released, a concert was organized in Correggio, in the province of Reggio Emilia. It was the 25th April, 1995. This film was shot during th...
A Ring a ring-o' Roses of love stories, waiting times and impossible departures which takes place in a square. The most awarded short-film at Nanni Moretti's Sacher Festival.
The film, a montage comprising images of Cézanne's paintings, pictures of him at work and a conversation between the painter and a young admirer named Joachim Gasquet, offers a suggesting view on Cézanne's painting. It also includes film scenes from both Jean Renoir's "Madame Bovary" and the Straubs' "The Death of Empedocles".
