Silvano lives in Sottomarina, in the province of Venice. He is 40 years old, has a young, nice wife, a beautiful child and a comfortable house. For a living, he is a car thief. One late summer day, an old friend of his, Mario, who is back to the village after many years...
In 1968 Sybilla is eighteen years old. The story takes place in Sofia, Bulgaria, during a time of great political and social fights, rebellion and sexual revolution. Amidst the political upheaval, she is sent to a girls' re-education camp when she is caught using drugs. After a failed affair and an abortion, Sybilla's drug use lands her in a mental clinic where she resists e...
The emergency of living quarters, as told through the experiences of the inhabitants of Roma Residence, a residential complex located in Bravetta, not far from downtown Rome. This documentary is not an investigation, it shows the metamorphosis of a living experience that lasted over a year. It shows the faces, the dynamics between different communities, the residence buildin...
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...
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...
Doubts, uncertainty and images of a little girl living in 1977: unions, abortion, demonstration and… Grease!
Djamel, a twenty years old French young man of arab heritage, gets fired form his job and moves to Grenoble where he finds a job as a courier. He makes new friends and seduces the secretary of the company where he works. He tries to settle down and starts following and spying the owner of the courier company because he is sure to be his son.
Jòsef, the main character, visits the sanatorium where his parents, he himself as a child, the emperor Francesco Giuseppe and other characters lived. The allegoric entrance to the building is the entrance to the world of fantasy, a dreamlike and labyrinthic dimension. In this strange sanatorium, time has stopped, or better, time has gone backwards. Here, Jòsef can explore th...
The film, a montage comprising images of Cézanne's paintings, pictures of him at work and a conversation between the painter and a young admirer named Joachim Gasquet, offers a suggesting view on Cézanne's painting. It also includes film scenes from both Jean Renoir's "Madame Bovary" and the Straubs' "The Death of Empedocles".
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...
