During the fight for the Liberation, the city of Piacenza counted 860 deaths and went through brutal massacres, but thanks to the Resistance, it obtained freedom. For this reason, in 1996, the city has been honored with the Golden Medal for Military Merit in the Resistance. The documentary follows the stages of the Liberation process through the voice of the ones who fought ...
"I owe you the truth in painting and I will tell it to you", said Paul Cézanne. The philosopher Gilles Deleuze considered Cézanne Straub's teacher. Fifteen years after the extraordinary Cézanneìs death, the painter is the main subject of the movie in which he lives again through the words of the young poet Joachim Gasquet during a visit at Louvre. Jean-Marie Straub and Daniè...
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...
The continuous thirty-two hours working shift of some doctors at the Emergency. The doctors are fighting against tiredness and the technical lacks of the hospital.
After three years long relationship, Daniela e Marica decide they want a child. The movie tells about the seven months before their journey to Denmark, where they can realize their dream, the reactions of friends, parents and colleagues, the arrival at the clinic in Copenaghen and the suffered wait to become parents. Conflicts, delusions and hopes of an Italian lesbian coupl...
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...
Through the interviews of Revelli, Rigoni Stern and some friends of Carlo, accompanied by the images of the journey to Russia, the archive material from the Soviet Union and the music of Massimo Zamboni (a member of CCCP-Fedeli alla linea and CSI), the documentary tells the story of a son, who progressively comprehends his father's life: a path which goes from a complete lac...
Mohammed and Abdallah are two young Palestinians from Gaza. Since a few years they have practiced Parkour, a discipline they discovered on YouTube. The passion for this art leads them to create a group of practitioners in the quarter where they live. One day, their biggest dream comes true: leaving the Gaza Strip to go to Italy to meet the Italian practitioners. During this ...
The Po valley as a place of the Absurd. Incestuous muddle of architectural stratification and construction failures. Palms, urban emptiness, urban fullness and palm-shaped neon lights. Swimming pools built in five days. Reconstructed neogothic villages. Terraced houses upon terraced houses. Loads of olive trees and decorational abuses. Countless claddings on materials people...
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...
