In Etiopia, durante la carestia del 1984-85, la popolazione di religione ebraica viene aiutata da Israele e Stati Uniti a raggiungere Israele. Schlomo, benché non sia ebreo, viene obbligato dalla madre a fingersi tale per salvarsi. Successivamente il ragazzo si finge orfano e viene adottato da una famiglia di ebrei sefarditi francesi. Crescendo scopre la cultura occid...
Interviews to different women who are asked to answer two questions: "What do you have in common with your mother? What does your mother have in common with you?" Women who tell about the deepest blood tie, the ancestral and biological bond.
The demolition of an old factory in the outskirts of Bergamo brings back to light the story of a workers' victory. In 1974, in the middle of an economic crisis, Lastex Yarn fired half of its workers. The factory is occupied and after months of protest, the workers show that the crisis is only a pretext to close and move the production lines to Malaysia, where the man pow...
"I owe you the truth in painting and I will tell it to you", said Paul Cézanne. The philosopher Gilles Deleuze considered Cézanne Straub's teacher. Fifteen years after the extraordinary Cézanneìs death, the painter is the main subject of the movie in which he lives again through the words of the young poet Joachim Gasquet during a visit at Louvre. Jean-Marie Straub and Daniè...
The film tells about the recently instituted course for Kitchen Services Operator, an alternative to the Catering college. Financed by the European Economic Community, it also includes a training course for disabled teenagers. The production of Competenze spendibili originated from the idea of an "artistic" performance applied to visual antropology. The directors were to spe...
The City of Silence is the psychiatric hospital of Treviso. Old abandoned structures, scraped walls, walled up windows. A nurse tells about the methods used in the past and the dramatic reactions of the patients. Some written patients' testimonies found in the hospital contribute to portrait the atmosphere of this place, where thousands of patients have lived.
The film, conceived as an academic research, aims at investigating the relationship between several religions and the ways in which the experience of faith influences daily life on the territory of Bergamo. The starting point of the research was the "shadowing" experience together with Benoit, a young student of theology, who decided to spend a period of meditation in Europe...
Steve Zissou, leggendario esploratore subacqueo noto per i suoi documentari, decide di mettere in piedi una spedizione per trovare lo squalo giaguaro che ha divorato Esteban, il suo migliore amico e socio in affari. All'equipaggio, composto da un gruppo di bizzarri personaggi, si aggiungono una giornalista incinta e Ned Plimpton che dice di essere figlio di Steve. Commed...
Casim, figlio di pakistani ma nato a Glasgow, lavora come dj in un club. Destinato dalla famiglia al matrimonio con una cugina, Casim si innamora di Roisin. Integrazione razziale per un film d’amore profondamente umano.
Il 52enne Juan Villegas viene licenziato dopo aver lavorato per vent'anni come addetto a un distributore di benzina. La sua vita cambia quando gli viene regalato un cane.
