Anna Politkovskaja, killed the 7th October 2006 in front of the lift of her house, is the 211th journalist who has been killed in Russia since the end of the USSR. The film tells the story of Anna and Aleksandr, wife and husband, both journalists. He was a TV star in the second half of the 80s' and a symbol of the perestrojka while she was a brave and passionate witness of t...
In Milan there is an historical monument which is unique in the world: Casa Verdi. It is a retirement house for musicians and was founded by Giuseppe Verdi in 1899 with the mission of "welcome and offer hospitality to Italian men or women who deal with music and find themselves in a state of poverty". In the frescoed building live today 60 people: musicians, opera ...
Di madre in figlia racconta una scheggia di storia patria. Il Coro delle Mondine di Novi, un gruppo di venti donne, molte delle quali ottantenni, ancora si esibisce in sagre e feste. Le loro canzoni di protesta, d’amore, di malinconia, sono le stesse che cantavano lavorando in risaia molti decenni fa. GUARDALO SUBITO
In 1996, the municipality of Naples approved a project of urban upgrading to reconvert the former industrial site of Bagnoli and create a low-density housing complex offering high environmental quality. The president and the general manager of Bagnoli S.p.A., the company carrying out the project, supervise the works and dialog with the institutions, the mayors and the press,...
In Venice, in a school of Italian for foreigners, the students have to describe the lives of their classmates without asking them any questions, only by observing them. Piet, 22 years old and Dutch, lives in symbiosis with his cell phone; Lucy, a former teacher from England, dances the tango; Catherine, a beautiful American girl, is always smiling. In the morning they talk a...
A man moves alone in an empty apartment. Behind the camera there is his daughter, following him in his new life as a widower, started four years ago. In the evening, the man gets ready to go to the cinema, where he will meet Vera, an Ukrainian woman who will become his closest friend. Vera has left in Ukraine her daughter, Halina, who sends her mom photos and videos to share...
Padre Nostro is a love story. A daily story which takes place between Salvatore, ninety years old, and Vannino, who is fifty. A spontaneous and true relationship between father and son, an unconventional connection which, sometimes, unsettles the usual beliefs. Salvatore and Vannino share everything, even the bed, half naked, to keep one another company. In spite of manhood...
A diviner in the desert. An expert fish breeding craftsman. The carps: nothing less than a plague. The "mojarra desnuda", a small fish breeding only in Meseta springs. The hydraulic works on Rio Negro, watering McCain's potato fields, which supply McDonald's restaurants with French fries. A mechanic acting in a classical sainete called El conventillo de la Paloma. The direct...
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...
The celebrations for the centenary of the coronation of the statue of Our Lady of Cornabusa mark the passing of time and seasons. The festival of fire announces the beginning of the autumn. During the night, the valley lights up and the rain accompanies the migration of the last animals that move from Pallio coast to the lower contradas. The hunters prepare the hunting calls...
