In questa emergenza sanitaria, anche il regista e nostro grande amico Davide Ferrario – tra i soci fondatori della nostra casa di distribuzione – ha voluto regalarci alcuni dei suoi lavori da mettere a disposizione on demand sul nostro canale Vimeo: Pillole di Ferrario sono quattro importanti titoli della sua filmografia + ...
1961. The Himori gang is in troubles since the authorities decide to close the brothel they had opened near an American naval base. To make ends meet, they start to steal, rob and intimidate. The situation gets even worse when the cashier of the gang steals all the money that was destined to the purchase of some pigs and Tetsuji, the boss, is hospitalized. The gang tears its...
A night in the life of Isaac, a jewish Russian man who survived the nazi holocaust, and Sophie, a catholic Polish woman. They are both refugees. Since thirty years they live in a garret in London, where Isaac has created a sort of maze of doors on which he has engraved and painted the symbols of their past. In this space, trapped in the history and yet in a time-free dimens...
Xiaodou, a shy young man, starts working as a postman after a colleague gets fired and arrested because he was keeping some of the mails. Pushed by the will of straighten out the society's faults, he himself will also end up doing the same and will start maneuvering the events of some people's lives, whose private affairs are now known to him.
Therese's life, a waiter in a bar of Budapest, is filled with worries and stress. She lies with her son Robert, twenty years old, who doesn't know his father. Therese falls in love with László, a middle class police man, who moves into their house, bringing with him the hope of a peaceful family life, but soon enough, Robert's real interest becomes clearer. He is not interes...
31st December 1999, outskirts of Madrid. Manuel and his wife, Paloma, who is in the final stages of pregnancy, are invited to dinner at her parents' house. Manuel asks to borrow his friend's truck, but Paloma's father, to underline the shortage of his son in law, insists to pick them up with his big car, but the car is being stolen. That's the beginning of a bizarre new year...
In a suspended, dreamlike space, symbolic elements and characters made out of baling wire and colored with tempera run after each other, frame after frame. A firstborn and his newborn brother in the eternal fight for survival which usually begins when the newborn arrives and everything changes.
The clerk Joseph K. wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on trial but nobody tells him what he is accused of. In order to find out about the reason of this accusation and to protest his innocence, he tries to look behind the facade of the judicial system, but since this remains fruitless, there seems to be no chance for him to e...
Kurage is an imaginary island south-west of Japan and its inhabitants still live like primitives and believe that the island has been created by the gods. One day, the engineer Kariya arrives from Tokyo, looking for a source of water which is needed by a local sugar refinery. The local population will undermine his trust in rationality. The movie tells about the eternal conf...
1908, Torre del Lago. Doria, the waitress of the musician Puccini is accused by his wife, Elvira, to be his lover. The girl, incapable of bearing the injustice, kills herself. The autopsy will show that she was a virgin. This dramatic story pervaded Giacomo Puccini's life and music. Doria Manfredi's story will be the inspiration for Liù, in Turandot.
