It happens, sometimes, that a place finds you, even when you are not even looking for it, and you find out that you can't live without it. This is what must have happened to Elisa, the day when she was found by Sadurano. She got lost and she was wandering around following the road which, from Castrocaro Terme, climbs up the hills like a serpent, almost crawling.
Some years ago, due to the "mad cow" alarm, it seemed that a new animal could become part of the Italian diet: the ostrich. What happened after? Some ostrich farmers show us how this animal could blend into the life of a farm in Bergamo.
They who think that Bergamo is a provincial city, where people are inexorably hemmed in cages, day after day, lifelong, should meet the main characters of Stop and start traffic. Commuting, be it a chosen or imposed lifestyle, is not only the main subject of the modern sociologic debate, but, first of all, it is the private matter of many individual stories.
The subject of the film is the daily life in a Youth Center. Kids and educators are tied up with the rehearsals for a concert, the preparations of a group dinner and the organization of a party. The precise eye of the camera shows the delicate dynamics that connect the main characters in relationships which are not always so easy to understand.
Ext. Valley. A worker leaves his house to go to work. A farmer picks the hay in a field. A camera burst into Valcamonica. On one side the directors, on the other the characters. In the middle, the cold technological means that eventually stop biting and create connections, unveiling the intimacy and creating unexpected feelings.
The time flows with a special rhythm in the residential home Nausicaa. Domestic events pepper in a new way the long summer days. The story of a small and lively community is told to the ones who are able to lighten their spirits while watching the film.
Gardeners. Garbage collector. Assembler. Disparate stories meet at a social cooperative. The juxtaposition of events, which are only apparently not related, recreates gradually the complexity of a meeting place which is both physical and existential.
"I have attended so many courses here in prison... What's one more?" says one of the attendees at the audio-visual workshop that was held from February to June in the district prison of Bergamo. The question of the usefulness of training processes in prison is a burning one. Does it really help? And, if so, who does it really help? Lacking any kind of experience in this fiel...
Bastiano, fifteen years old, lives in a institute with all the ones, who, like him, have nobody who can take care of them. Obsessed by strange visions of his friends and himself as old people, he convinces himself that the institute is stealing his youth and decides to leave.
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.
