Il film è ambientato nella Belfast degli anni '70, nel periodo in cui la città era al centro degli scontri tra Inghilterra e Irlanda. Il protagonista, Terry Hooley, mentre i suoi amici imbracciano le armi per contrastare gli inglesi, apre nella parte della città più tormentata degli scontri tra opposte fazioni, il negozio di dischi Good Vibrat...
Good Time for a Change è un film etnografico che racconta l’esperienza di Danilo, un giovane italiano che sta pensando di emigrare in Canada. Il film illustra dall’interno tutte le fasi dell’esperienza migrante e il suo incontro con la realtà canadese, dalla metropoli di Toronto fino alle foreste incontaminate del Nord dell’Ontario. All&...
It follows the resistance to modernization in rural Mexico. It is a reminder that it is still possible to live in tune with our essence as human beings. A survey of rural Mexico composed into an extraordinary collage of labor practices and vast landscapes, Gods of Mexico portrays the rich diversity of several communities of Native Peoples and Afro-descendants throughout the...
A German U-boat is sunk in Hudson Bay. The survived nazi sailors attempt to evade capture by traveling across Canada to the still-neutral United States. An anti-nazi film, which avoids any stereotypes, recalls Hitchcock's dramas and counts several great English actors, as Anton Walbrook, Laurence Olivier, Leslie Howard.
Artist, anarchist, drop-out, paperless immigrant: Giovanni Segantini was all of this. He created, usually under the open sky, monumental, idealized alpine landscapes. In the course of his lifetime, he climbed ever higher in search of more light, finally dying at 41 in an Engadin alpine hut at 2700m. The film offers insight into his difficult childhood and boyhood, shares his...
Lucy Muir, a beautiful widow, moves with her daughter into a seaside cottage. She soon discovers her new home is haunted by the handsome ghost of a sea captain. When Lucy loses her income, the captain comes up with a solution to her financial woes and, in the process, wins her heart. Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison and a young Natalie Wood co-star in one of the most romantic g...
Mandel Baruch was an handsome man, a "Mensch" who had sacrificed everything for business. When he dies, his beloved son, Lionel, gathers some old family friends to organize a funeral to be remembered.
This documentary film follows the process of creating one of Velasco Vitali's famous dog sculptures, from wax to glazed bronze, at Fonderia Artistica Battaglia (Battaglia Artistic Foundry), in Milan. The film observes the work of a group of skilled artisans in this 100-year old foundry and reveals the ancient traditions of bronze sculpture making, un...
Dreyer's final film is a Danish drama based on the 1906 play of the same name by Hjalmar Söderberg. Gertrud, unhappily married with a lawyer and politician, meets first her former lover, a famous poet, then starts a relation with a young composer and eventually ends up living alone. Thirty years later, Gertrud looks back at her life. She says that love is the only thing that...
A surreal black comedy set in a decrepit 1960's housing development project in the Netherlands. Thomas is twelve years old. When his mother is drawn into sainthood and the resulting frustrations of his father become too difficult to manage, Thomas becomes obsessed with events on the broadcast news about the liberation of the Belgian Congo. Thomas becomes fond of Lumumba, one...
