Veronica is thirty-eight years old, she comes from Rumania and she has been sentenced to eight years in prison for trafficking in human beings, but she doesn't lose heart…
The mental and artistic work of John Kamikaze, a fakir of the Marseilles Circus company directed by Pierrot Bidon. The film is a journey through a land which is spiritually and physically extraneous to the protagonist's eyes. A land suspended between the dream and the reality, which becomes, through its landscapes, a theatre of an inescapable path of knowledge and resear...
The Plastic House was built in the 70s' in Sesto S. Giovanni, via Catania, 126. The house was part of an experimental project with the aim of trying out plastic materials to build houses. The apartments, which were first rented out regularly, were soon after abandoned because of the difficulties of living inside. The house, abandoned for several years, has been illegally occ...
Licu, 27 years old, was born in Bangladesh. He is muslim and for a few years he has lived in Rome in a flat shared with other eight people. He has just gotten his residency permit and he works twelve hours a day. In the morning he works as a warehouse worker in a textile workshop and in the evening as a cashier in a food shop. With his Elvis hairstyle, his designer shirts an...
Tel Aviv, August 2006. Three episodes dealing with the different sides of identity: ethnicity, religion, politics and sexual orientation. Four young Israeli lesbians, a group of religious queers from all the world, an Arabic gay who dresses up and acts as drag queen. Background is the war in Lebanon.
An ironic, anthropological and attentive look at The Sassi di Matera, a picturesque and empty nativity which serves as a perfect backstage for the lives of the people who live there.
A poetic travel diary about one of the most fascinating area in Italy: the Po delta. The traveller, day after day, lives and discovers this place and the people who work there. The past emerges through the stories told by the characters and the visual memories of an important Italian director, Florestano Vancini, who, 50 years ago, realized several documentaries in these pla...
Nell’atmosfera lunare di un’alba marina, tre pescatori seduti sul muretto scrutano immobili il mare, illuminati dalla luce artificiale dei lampioni. Cominciano così le quattro stagioni di Nicotera Marina, piccolissimo paese della costa calabrese. Un’unica voce ci accompagna in questo viaggio, una voce consapevole e partecipe, che illumina di umanit&a...
Formaggino is a fledgling young better, lucky and cocky like all the novices. Hanging out at horse races, he meets the Professor, who is twenty years older than him and knows everything about that world. In exchange of money, Formaggino and his Professor agree to be interviewed and filmed.
The camera moves around the villages of the high Caucasus, in the Northern Azerbaijan, where ancient tribes still live, like the mountain Jews. Monika Bulaj enters this world, made of daily gestures, magic and mysteries. Houses toil up mountains and during the night the men tell stories, always different ones. Those people seem to belong both to the earth and the sky. The ti...
