In a suspended, dreamlike space, symbolic elements and characters made out of baling wire and colored with tempera run after each other, frame after frame. A firstborn and his newborn brother in the eternal fight for survival which usually begins when the newborn arrives and everything changes.
The clerk Joseph K. wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on trial but nobody tells him what he is accused of. In order to find out about the reason of this accusation and to protest his innocence, he tries to look behind the facade of the judicial system, but since this remains fruitless, there seems to be no chance for him to e...
Kurage is an imaginary island south-west of Japan and its inhabitants still live like primitives and believe that the island has been created by the gods. One day, the engineer Kariya arrives from Tokyo, looking for a source of water which is needed by a local sugar refinery. The local population will undermine his trust in rationality. The movie tells about the eternal conf...
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 ...
1908, Torre del Lago. Doria, the waitress of the musician Puccini is accused by his wife, Elvira, to be his lover. The girl, incapable of bearing the injustice, kills herself. The autopsy will show that she was a virgin. This dramatic story pervaded Giacomo Puccini's life and music. Doria Manfredi's story will be the inspiration for Liù, in Turandot.
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.
Vilian, a young professor with a passion for astronomy, discovers a comet and, together with his friend, Fiala, they dream of naming it after them. Meanwhile, Vilian's wife stresses him because she wants a bigger apartment. Later on, Vilian finds out that his friend gave the comet only his name, betraying his trust. Vilian gives up his job as a professor, but manages, anyway...
This documentary tells the story of a family. Everything revolves around the extraordinary Jewish woman Lisa Ghelfenbein, born in Odessa in 1887, who moved to Italy in the begin of the XX century to study medicine in Turin. She meets the man who will become her husband and moves to Bergamo, where she will raise a numerous family. During the period of the Italian Racial Laws,...
August 1978. Four experienced mountaineers from Colere, amongst whom the mountain guide Livio Piantoni, open a difficult route on the north side of Presolana, in the Scalve valley. They name it "Placido route". Stunning footage has recorded the ascent. Thirty years later, Yuri Parimbelli and Robi Piantoni, Livio's son and a mountain guide himself, repeat that route. In the m...
The story concerns three young people who meet in a small village near Canterbury. An American Army Sergeant who hasn't recently received any letter from his girlfriend, a British Army Sergeant, who, used to work as a pianist in a cinema, and a young shopping assistant, who joined the army after having lost her boyfriend in the war. Chaucer is a odd pretext for this pastoral...
