In the last days of 1999, Abderrahmane Sissako, a director who comes from Mauritania but live in France, comes back to Sokolo, a small village in Mali, to visit his father. In Sokolo, Sissako changes his clothes, takes a bike and starts biking around. He will run into a girl, Nana. In between them, something impalpable and spiritual is born, while life in village goes on…
End of the 19th century. Hazel is a beautiful and innocent girl who lives in the countryside with her father, a coffin maker. She loves all the creatures around her, especially her pet fox cub. Hazel is wild, she often run barefoot through the woods when harsh life gets too much for her. After having married a young shepherd who loves her sincerely, Hazel is seduced by a ric...
The menace of the cerebral manipulation of men perpetuated by the governing authorities, who aim at enhancing paranoia and competitiveness. In the 70's and early 80's, Scott B and Beth B were the main promoters of the No Wave movement of the underground punk scene.
The camera enters a museum of an European capital. There is only a receptionist sitting at a table, reading, and there are 92 drawings hanging on the walls, of small dimensions and of different materials. While the camera gets closer to the drawings, a voice over starts speaking. He is the person who collected those drawings, so that they can be of use after the death of a m...
Carlo Feltrinelli street, southern-east outskirts of Milan. In between Tangenziale Est and an archery field are "Le case bianche", the so-called "White", council houses, built in 1986 and inhabited by 150 families. The are called "White" because white is the color of the asbestos panels of which they are covered. Oscar White, a rapper of Rogoredo, reports with his song "Mila...
The movie is based on Georg Büchner's drama and is set in the contemporary Hungary. The disturbed main character, Woyzeck is a railroad guardian and lives in the shack by the railway. Maria, a restless woman, surrenders to the call of senses during a dropout party. Every element of the landscape seems immersed in a time free dimension and it is suspended in the existential s...
Zak, a young man of Algerian origins, lives in a village in Southern France. When he learns about his father's death in Algeria, he decides to go there with his family. The journey will give him the chance to approach the Arabian culture, the culture of his motherland that he has never experienced. The movie has won the Kodak Prize at Torino Film Festival and the Best Direct...
Tristan da Cunha. Su quest’isola sperduta nel Sud dell’Oceano Atlantico vivono solo duecentosettanta persone. Tra loro Nick e Anne, due adolescenti che si conoscono da sempre e che da sempre sono innamorati. Ma ora Anne ha deciso di andare a studiare in Inghilterra, a 6.125 miglia da Tristan da Cunha. E di lasciare solo Nick.
A Villa La Angostura, piccola località della Patagonia ai piedi del Cerro Bayo, la stagione sciistica è ormai alle porte quando Juana, matriarca di una famiglia un po’ strampalata, tenta il suicidio e finisce in coma. Nessuno si spiega il perché, ma intanto si sparge la voce che la donna potrebbe aver vinto una grossa cifra al casinò. Solo M...
Paloma è una madre single di trentacinque anni che ha come migliore amico il figlio quindicenne Hector. Inseparabili, i due condividono tempo libero, segreti e confessioni intime. Il loro rapporto è destinato però a cambiare durante una vacanza al mare: qui Hector incontra la coetanea Jazmin e sono subito scintille. Per la giovane madre, scoprire che il ...
