Han has worked as a watch person at the Opera of Beijing. Now he is retired and spends his days feeling bored and useless. One day, in the park he meets a group of retired men who share with him the passion for theatre. So Han decides to found a club where they can meet to act or sing. Once the club is open, problems start: everybody wants to act in his own way. Han finds hi...
Joan of Arc's trial for heresy. Joan is interrogated by the French Clerical Court. Her judges try to make her say something that will discredit her claim, but she remains steadfast. When she is threatened with burning at the stake, she finally breaks and allows a priest to guide her hand in signing a confession, but after realizing that she has been unfaithful to God, she de...
In produzione Dal recupero di frammenti della statua del Buddha sulla cima di una montagna parte la riflessione sul paesaggio culturale montano.
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 ...
Bissi farmstead, Romano di Lombardia, Italy. Maurizio and Ivan live next to Ornella and Maria Rosa. With some small cameras they tell us about their daily life, about their meals, their free time, the relationships in between them and with the social assistants who help them to organize time and housework. These fragments of independent lives tells us about another possible ...
Valleys of Bergamo, Nembro, Trevasco Quarry, 24th December 2010. A huge piece of rock falls down at the entrance of one of the historical climbing sites in the province of Bergamo. The production of Keep Training! twists and turns around the ignited debate of whether or not access to the Quarry would remain open. The directors gather interviews, anecdotes, opinions and fac...
The film is a mathematical calculation and, to come true, needs the support of the pataphysics. Sixty scenes, shot on Super 8, have been retrieved from the archive of Cinescatti, a project of Laboratorio 80 and Bergamo Film Meeting. The scenes are parts of simple footages about travels, domestic life, public demostrations and there are also some of them which were not meant ...
Old family footages unveil to a girl a secret that nobody wants to remember. The images of a summer walk awake the darkness of a long forgotten story. The echoes of an unknown dimension ask for the redemption of the denied memories.
The Po valley as a place of the Absurd. Incestuous muddle of architectural stratification and construction failures. Palms, urban emptiness, urban fullness and palm-shaped neon lights. Swimming pools built in five days. Reconstructed neogothic villages. Terraced houses upon terraced houses. Loads of olive trees and decorational abuses. Countless claddings on materials people...
Daniela and Donato, together with some actors of Araucaìma Teater, visit the places of experiences that scarred them. From the dialog, some fragments of their complicated lives come to light. The landscape is a silent witness.
