Nell’atmosfera lunare di un’alba marina, tre pescatori seduti sul muretto scrutano immobili il mare, illuminati dalla luce artificiale dei lampioni. Cominciano così le quattro stagioni di Nicotera Marina, piccolissimo paese della costa calabrese. Un’unica voce ci accompagna in questo viaggio, una voce consapevole e partecipe, che illumina di umanit&a...
While on holiday, Scott Carey is exposed to a cloud of radioactive spray shortly after he accidentally ingests insecticide. The radioactivity acts as a catalyst for the bug spray, causing his body to shrink at a rate of approximately 1/7 of an inch per day. A few weeks later, Carey can no longer deny the truth: not only is he losing weight, he is also shorter than he was and...
Robert, a DJ, goes to Bristol to find out why his brother committed suicide. He meets a Scottish deserter, a mechanic fond of music and a woman who is looking for her missing daughter. The soundtrack includes Kraftwerk, David Bowie, Lene Lovich, Wreckless Eric. A black and white road movie, rich of references to the social and political climate of Great Britain in the 70'...
Four young men have just finished school in their island fishing village in Taiwan and now spend most of their time drinking and fighting. Three of them decide to go to the port city of Gaoxiang to look for work. There they face the harsh reality of the big city. The movie attracted the attention of Olivier Assayas, a young critic who works for Cahiers du cinéma.
When teenage boy Karol Kremer becomes an eyewitness of a brutal murder, he is not aware of how much influence that event will exert on his future.
Twenty-year-old Atsushi and his seventeen-year-old girlfriend Mari arrive in Tokyo from the suburbs with plans to marry despite their parent's objections but they are soon pulled into the city's dark underside. Atsushi meets Miki, a fading adult video (AV) actress, and gets introduced by the veteran Yoshiya to the occupation of "scoutman", recruiters who ply the streets tryi...
Formaggino is a fledgling young better, lucky and cocky like all the novices. Hanging out at horse races, he meets the Professor, who is twenty years older than him and knows everything about that world. In exchange of money, Formaggino and his Professor agree to be interviewed and filmed.
In a house nestled among the woods of Slovenia lives young René. He spends the summer vacation days playing alone and defending the national borders from an enemy attack. Using his drawings as inspiration, he crafts his toy weapons out of wood, then immerses himself in nature and the camouflaged bunkers left unused from the Second World War, engaging in a strict and i...
In his second feature film, Roman Polanski follows the frightful story of a neurosis. The main character, Carole, interpreted by Catherine Deneuve, left alone in the apartment she shares with her sister, drifts towards a kind of neurosis and can't stand the presence of any men. Polanski said: "Insanity is scaring because you know that it can bring you to yourself". A visiona...
Resistencia is entirely based on material found in a private archive composed of roughly two thousand pictures that my great-uncle took between the 30's and the 60's. Through his private memories, I have tried to tell a collective story, the story of the city Resistencia (Chaco, Argentina), born as a colony of Italian immigrants.
