David, a wooden masks sculptor, and Adélia, an ancient songs singer, are the main characters of this film set in Trás-os-Montes, a region in north-east Portugal. They witness the condition of abandon of this region, a land that still perserves the traces of a very ancient ocean. The stones, the fields, the vegetation devouring the abandoned houses, taking back what it once o...
The mental and artistic work of John Kamikaze, a fakir of the Marseilles Circus company directed by Pierrot Bidon. The film is a journey through a land which is spiritually and physically extraneous to the protagonist's eyes. A land suspended between the dream and the reality, which becomes, through its landscapes, a theatre of an inescapable path of knowledge and resear...
Four musicians play Il fuoco by Giovanni Pastrone, a 1915 film that the director signs with the name of Piero Fosco. Four chapters that mark a painter’s passion for a fatal woman, a fire that burns until he is consumed. Four symbolic places of culture in Bergamo and the hope that they will soon be able to reopen. A unique audiovisual experience dedicate...
In Macas, in the Eastern part of Ecuador, Fundación Chankuap works as an important mediator between the international members of the foundation and the indigenous communities that live in the forests on the border with Perù. The relationships between the inside and the outside of the forest are regulated with a great precision: every intervention must be carefu...
An important visual testimony of the New York new wave/punk scene of the 70s'. The film captures the concerts of the main characters - Tom Verlaine, David Byrne, Blodie - while they lay the foundations of punk rock. Particularly significant is Patti Smith's performance. Wild, tough and revolutionary, like the music she plays.
Ruth Zylberman ha scelto un edificio parigino di cui non sapeva nulla, il 209 di Rue Saint-Maur. Per diversi anni ha indagato con l'obiettivo di ritrovare i vecchi inquilini del palazzo, per poter ricostruire la storia di quella che era stata una piccola comunità ebrea durante l'occupazione nazista. Ha ritrovato gli ex abitanti del 209 nelle periferie di Parig...
The Danish tournée of Bergamo Teatro Tascabile in Holstebro, where the street theatre festival organized by Odin Teatret of Eugenio Barba takes place. During ten days of frantic and relentless work, Teatro Tascabile puts up 34 theatrical and musical performances in several Danish locations. The film, with its fast and energetic rhythm, tells about the delicate moment the gro...
Loznitsa’s Austerlitz is a documentary study, with almost no audible dialogue of any kind, of the increasingly established tourist phenomenon at the Nazi death camps in Germany. He sets up fixed camera positions at the Dachau and Sachsenhausen camps, which have huge visitor numbers due to being close to big cities (Munich and Berlin respectively) and simply records the...
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?
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 ...
