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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
A young Ucrainan woman works full time as house keeper and in-house nurse. Anxiety and melancholia accompany her through her last working day, but hope dies last...
Bianca is a 39-year-old transsexual woman. She’s been living in Milan since 2009 and works as a prostitute. For twenty years, she has been involved with Natasha, a Japanese trans who is temporarily living in Brazil. Their bond is very strong and distance has not weakened it. The film is about their love story, made up of long phone calls and even longer waits. Becaus...
In the outskirts of Bucarest, two 14 years old kids live alone in a flat. Following the two characters in their thoughts and memories about their life spent with their families and on the road, the film accompanies them towards their dreams. Two departures, two journeys.
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...
