Ritratto del maggiordomo Roteiro Santiago, affascinante e curioso personaggio, collezionista di storie medievali e uomo di grande cultura.
Uomo devoto e marito fedele, Johan scopre improvvisamente l’amore: una passione che non riesce in alcun modo a sopire. Si trova, così, costretto a fare scelte dolorose.
Alejandro è un adolescente che vive nella 'Zona', un ricco quartiere di Città del Messico. Il giorno del suo compleanno, tre ragazzi delle borgate riescono ad introdursi nel quartiere per compiere un furto, ma qualcosa va storto…
Marjane, otto anni, sogna di essere un profeta che salverà il mondo. Educata da genitori molto moderni e particolarmente legata a sua nonna, segue con trepidazione gli avvenimenti che porteranno alla Rivoluzione e provocheranno la caduta dello Scià. Con l'instaurazione della Repubblica islamica inizia il periodo dei "pasdaran" che controllano i co...
Around Liegi, coal has been excavated until the 70s' to make the furnace of the steel factories work. Today, only an attentive eye can recognize what is left of the Collart mines. Sergio Stramare, who has worked for eleven years in Collart, remembers it well: a shopping center lies today where once there was the entrance of the mine, a newly built road separates the mine are...
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...
The Plastic House was built in the 70s' in Sesto S. Giovanni, via Catania, 126. The house was part of an experimental project with the aim of trying out plastic materials to build houses. The apartments, which were first rented out regularly, were soon after abandoned because of the difficulties of living inside. The house, abandoned for several years, has been illegally occ...
Licu, 27 years old, was born in Bangladesh. He is muslim and for a few years he has lived in Rome in a flat shared with other eight people. He has just gotten his residency permit and he works twelve hours a day. In the morning he works as a warehouse worker in a textile workshop and in the evening as a cashier in a food shop. With his Elvis hairstyle, his designer shirts an...
Tel Aviv, August 2006. Three episodes dealing with the different sides of identity: ethnicity, religion, politics and sexual orientation. Four young Israeli lesbians, a group of religious queers from all the world, an Arabic gay who dresses up and acts as drag queen. Background is the war in Lebanon.
Jimmy is 18 years old and lives in a sleepy town in Sardinia. He doesn't know what to do with his life, but one thing he knows is that he will not work in the oil refinery of his town. He wants to leave. In the attempt to find enough money to leave for Mexico, he will find himself breaking laws and living recklessly. It is then that the doors of the juvenile prison will swi...
