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...
"She says I was sick... you are sick, you are sick, I am sick... do you feel good? I don't think so". Francesca's words open the film. "La Carovana" ("The Caravan") is a self-help/mutual aid group of parents of children with intellectual disabilities. The group gives them the possibility of telling their stories, which are also their children's stories, without feeling extra...
There is much to be told about the cattle farmers' world, the farms and the lonely hermit farmers. Near Pizzo Formico, in the Seriana valley, there is a mountain pasture. The cows will spend the summer there. Teresa Amara's journey is a bittersweet, poetic and fast, real-surreal film.
The movie follows Danny Chanoch along the most important journey of his life, the one that will bring his children, Sagi and Miri, from Israel to his Holocaust. Born in Lithuania, Danny, was deported to a concentration camp. After having seen his family divided in Stuthoff, from Dachau he was transferred to Auschwitz and then to Mauthausen, where he stayed until the liberati...
Cotacachi, Ecuador. A small colony of elderly American expats retires here to escape the effects of the global economic crisis. The tale of their lives and relationships provides the portrait of an exiled micro-community, a community hurt and traumatized, by the betrayal of the American Dream. They're looking for security, prosperity, well-being and - above all...
A Ring a ring-o' Roses of love stories, waiting times and impossible departures which takes place in a square. The most awarded short-film at Nanni Moretti's Sacher Festival.
Going back to the beaches that have left a mark in her life, Agnès Varda invents, with Les plages d'Agnès a sort of "self-documentary collage". Combining parts of her movies, images and reportage, she tells us, with a sincere and playful approach, about the beginnings of her career, first as a photographer for the theatre and then as a movie direc...
Chronicles of the transformations of a piece of Marseille during the urban renovation plan that took place between 2007 and 2009. Some people moved away, some other arrived, some decided to stay or to resist, some decided to demolish, some other to build, some decided to keep living as nothing had happened. The director follows the changes, sometimes unexpected, to be able ...
Polystyrene is the material used to realize mannequins. The film documents the production process of these ambiguous thermo-blown humanoids, conceived from a granular substance and finishing in window exhibits.
In a suspended, dreamlike space, symbolic elements and characters made out of baling wire and colored with tempera run after each other, frame after frame. A firstborn and his newborn brother in the eternal fight for survival which usually begins when the newborn arrives and everything changes.
