Creatura ibrida, metà orso e metà bufalo, il Gruffalò è il protagonista di un celeberrimo libro per bambini uscito alla fine degli anni Novanta. La storia dell’incontro di questo strano essere mostruoso con uno scaltro topolino e gli altri animali di una frondosa e coloratissima foresta è rapidamente diventato un classico della letter...
Ageroland is a village in the province of Naples, hidden behind the mounts of the Amalfi coast. Near the main square there is a tobacco shop owned by Sabato Cuomo, acute thinker, dogged smoker, ironic reporter of the daily life and observer of the human soul. The inhabitants of the village go every day to Sabato's shop: some of them buy the newspaper or the cigarettes, some ...
One night, Abed, a young Palestinian, enters illegally West Jerusalem passing through the sewage pipe under the wall dividing the city. He works in a restaurant with Claudia, the main character of the anecdote, half a dream half a story, which he tells to entertain his collegues while they smoke the last cigarette of the evening. A day when the restaurant was closed, he deci...
Rieucros is a small village in the region of Lozere, south of France. According to a Decree Law approved the 12.11.1938, Rieucros turns into a internment camp for foreigners. In the winter 1939-40, women of 25 different nationalities are interned here. They are all considered "suspectes", responsible for the economic, social and political crisis which France is living. Bald...
The film follows Gianluigi Trovesi, one of the greatest Italian jazz musician, in a journey through the musical aesthetics that he contributed to shape. The film accompanies the protagonist from the courtyard, a familiar and protected environment, and from the known and comforting images and sounds of his mother country to new, unknown and stimulating musical territories and...
In a city in Nothern Italy, a group of friends organizes the first Graziella bicycle World Olympics (Grazielliadi), the famous Italian 60's folding bike. From the dust of the basements and from abandoned parking places, a piece of history re-emerges, a rusty legacy of mothers and grandmothers. Kshan, 11 years old, has repainted and given a new life to his grandma's b...
"When I get old, I will finally have time to read my books in the garden", said Enrico Cattaneo, alias "Ketto", on the day of his 90th birthday. It sounds like a joke, but it is instead a sign of the wit and vitality that still today characterize him. Born in 1917 in a well-to-do family, he has gone through the XX century in an adventurous and original way. A passionate film...
Above the ground: in the 60's, Mario moved to France and built his house in Landres, Lorraine region. Under the ground: while building his house, Mario has worked in a iron mine for 20 years. Today the mines are closed, the floods made the soil unstable. Hundreds of buildings crumbled down and some other are precarious. Mario lives a kafkaesque situation: for years, he has b...
Antonia always want to please the other. She accepts the cumbersome presence of her mother, who, despite her age, has found a younger boyfriend. She stands her former husband, who is constantly pouring on her all his problems. She is persecuted by Caterina, who attends one of her courses for depressed housewives. The only moments when she feels at her easy are at the psychia...
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 ...
