Through the words of the witnesses, the film tells about the bombing of Dalmine Steelworks, which took place the morning of the 6th July 1944 and caused the death of hundreds of people. During a recent exploration, in the darkness of the bunker, the images of the remaining objects recall those tragic moments.
Four musicians play Il fuoco by Giovanni Pastrone, a 1915 film that the director signs with the name of Piero Fosco. Four chapters that mark a painter’s passion for a fatal woman, a fire that burns until he is consumed. Four symbolic places of culture in Bergamo and the hope that they will soon be able to reopen. A unique audiovisual experience dedicate...
Director Romeo Castellucci, one of the founders of the Raffaello Sanzio society, tells through the visionary short film Brentano, the story of a young man "who has no desire to live anymore and decides to escape". Based on the homonym work of prose by Robert Walser, the film is shot as a sort of second optic skin around the character who remains disconnected by the same plac...
A goods train rolls through the broad, grassy plain that stretches away below the Caucasian mountains. In the driver‘s cabin: Nurlan, the train driver. Day in, day out he steers his train along the route that runs through a cramped suburb of Baku, where the train tracks are built so close to the houses that Nurlan‘s train chugs through what passes for the residen...
In Macas, in the Eastern part of Ecuador, Fundación Chankuap works as an important mediator between the international members of the foundation and the indigenous communities that live in the forests on the border with Perù. The relationships between the inside and the outside of the forest are regulated with a great precision: every intervention must be carefu...
Jesus, with his assistant Mary Magdalene, lands at New York airport the 31st December 1999. Satan is in town too and wanders from bar to bar looking for souls to corrupt. The end of time is close and Jesus is supposed to decide the destiny of human beings. He instead opposes his Father's will, trying to roll over the Apocalypse terms and to get rid of the Book of Revelation ...
An important visual testimony of the New York new wave/punk scene of the 70s'. The film captures the concerts of the main characters - Tom Verlaine, David Byrne, Blodie - while they lay the foundations of punk rock. Particularly significant is Patti Smith's performance. Wild, tough and revolutionary, like the music she plays.
Franco is sixty. He has spent most of his life in a house that once was his family's farm, in Cenate Sopra, a little village at the foot of Misma mountain. After his parents' death, Franco could have risked ending up in the dreariness of a hospice, but, luckily, he found out he was rich: he was the owner of a piece of land and an house waiting only to be renovated. At the e...
Sicily, today. The relation between a father and a ten years old son is undermined by the secret life of the man. An unconditioned relationship that must face the truth.
There's much excitement in the kitchen for imminent arrival of a gourmand French duke and his personal waiter. Instead of preparing sandwiches at full blast for the usual clients, the fat cook can now exercise her art. But while she is peppering a lobster soufflé, she is distracted by two hands groping around the kitchen.
