The movie follows Danny Chanoch along the most important journey of his life, the one that will bring his children, Sagi and Miri, from Israel to his Holocaust. Born in Lithuania, Danny, was deported to a concentration camp. After having seen his family divided in Stuthoff, from Dachau he was transferred to Auschwitz and then to Mauthausen, where he stayed until the liberati...
Going back to the beaches that have left a mark in her life, Agnès Varda invents, with Les plages d'Agnès a sort of "self-documentary collage". Combining parts of her movies, images and reportage, she tells us, with a sincere and playful approach, about the beginnings of her career, first as a photographer for the theatre and then as a movie direc...
Luca, almost fifty years old, decides to go back to rugby, an old passion he had when he was younger and he decides to train with the All Reds team. This is only one of the activities proposed by Acrobax, a squat which has been created in the old dog track of Rome. This experience will lead Luca to experience two tragedies: the death of two young men of Acrobax. Antonio died...
Ciro is a young boxer. He lives in the old quartier of Ventaglieri, in the historical centre of Naples. He is a quiet boy who practices a gory sport and faces difficulties with tenderness and silent tenaciousness as a real champion. The film tells about silences, breaths, bodies, boxing rings, the fans' screams, Ciro's tenderness contrasting the crudity of the boxing, the re...
A journey into the heart of a modern working-class suburb, Ponte di Nona, a few kilometers away from Rome. Sara and Neda lead us through the dynamics of power which influence the daily life of the inhabitants: neighborhoods condemned to decay and neglect, constructed without any infrastructure, public transportation or areas to gather in. The result is a movie which tells ab...
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...
In Macas, in the Eastern part of Ecuador, Fundación Chankuap works as an important mediator between the international members of the foundation and the indigenous communities that live in the forests on the border with Perù. The relationships between the inside and the outside of the forest are regulated with a great precision: every intervention must be carefu...
David, a wooden masks sculptor, and Adélia, an ancient songs singer, are the main characters of this film set in Trás-os-Montes, a region in north-east Portugal. They witness the condition of abandon of this region, a land that still perserves the traces of a very ancient ocean. The stones, the fields, the vegetation devouring the abandoned houses, taking back what it once o...
Rome. Since four years, a never open clinic and a former arts high school are hosting ninety families of different nationalities and social classes. We move through this place observing the dynamics of the main characters who are leading us, through their testimonies, towards the true meaning of home. Home is an instrument which helps us growing and developing our personali...
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 ...
