Five young Japanese cyclists go to Burkina Faso to take part in the most important African competition, the Tour of Faso. The movie is about the contrast between two completely different worlds: the structured and monotone life of the members of the Japanese team and the African reality. On top of that, there is the difference between the rigid climate of Japan compared to t...
Between the 50's and the 60's, Canada has represented for many Italians a new chance at life. An immense, underpopulated territory, a growing economy, an enormous need of manpower. The country was taking shape, a new "American" dream became reality for many people. Many made their fortune, others found wellness and prosperity. With their work, their efforts and willpower, th...
"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...
Schizophrenia and games. Refined culture and Raffaella Carrà. Ostentation and shyness. Do the ones hiding under excessive make-up want to unveil themselves in front of the cameras? It's like a puzzle: the world of the Drag Queens told with intelligence and attention.
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 was born from a bizarre analogy which compares social movements to clouds. Clouds appear to be all the same, but only from a distance; they change all the time, and even when they cause damage they are crucial to life on earth. In the same way, social movements put energy back into circulation; they are a response to bottled-up energies in the society at large. Gu...
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.
Two hundread years after its creation, a portrait of the Evangelic community, from the Swiss matrix of its origin to the various and rich experiences and cultures that it expresses today. The documentary portrays, through the sensibility of its several components, a community which keeps on influencing, with its discrete presence, the life and culture of the city of Bergamo.
