A former teacher decides to move with all his family - his wife and three children - to a small village in the Maira Valley, on the mountains, in order to escape the wrongs of civilization. Philippe and his wife start producing goat cheese and tries to be accepted by the old people of the village, but little by little misunderstandings, envy and conflicts take over and for P...
Zak, a young man of Algerian origins, lives in a village in Southern France. When he learns about his father's death in Algeria, he decides to go there with his family. The journey will give him the chance to approach the Arabian culture, the culture of his motherland that he has never experienced. The movie has won the Kodak Prize at Torino Film Festival and the Best Direct...
Martino è custode notturno del Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino nella Mole Antonelliana, dove passa il tempo a visionare vecchi film muti ed a fare egli stesso delle riprese con una vecchia cinepresa ad 8 millimetri. Abita in un locale all'interno dell'edificio, che ha arredato imitando un film di Buster Keaton. Una sera Amanda, una ragazza che lavora...
Il dono follows the arid daily life in a village in Calabria which was once densily populate, but today deserted. An impertubable old man and a girl, who is believed to be possesed, seem to be simply waiting to be devoured by the time. The girl offers her body to the assaults of the passing drivers who give her a lift and know no tenderness. The old man finds a mobile phone ...
La trentenne Rinko non ha da anni rapporti con il marito, un uomo molto più anziano di lei con l’ossessione per la pulizia. La donna, che lavora come centralinista in un centro psichiatrico, riceve un giorno una busta con delle fotografie che la ritraggono, nuda, in atteggiamenti intimi. L'uomo che le ha inviato le immagini ordina a Rinko di mettere in ...
Gianni, eight years old, lives the whole year in a camping place with his father Nino. The arrival of Condor the magician and his daughter Federica will bring to his life a blow of magic.
The unsettling lives of a group of teenagers from California. The film opens with the suicide of Ken Park, who shoots himself in the head with a handgun to avoid becoming a father. Claude fends off physical and emotional abuse from his alcoholic father, who detests him for being insufficiently masculine. Peaches' father, an extremely religious man, catches her and her boyfri...
1944. Several days before Finland pulls out of the war against the Soviet Union, Veikko, a Finnish sniper ( "Kukushka" in Finnish), is turned in by his Finnish and German compatriots for being a pacifist and, in their eyes, a would-be deserter. In prison he meets Ivan, a Captain in the Red Army, arrested because he was accused of anti-Soviet correspondence. The two manage to...
Francesco's father can't love him the way he would like, so he is looking for the answer to the question that, since 17 years, has echoed in his mind. There is only one person who can give him this answer. During a journey across a black and hostile sea, amongst violence and contraband, Francesco finds out who he is and becomes an adult.
Every year, Gretchen spends one whole day solving as many crosswords as possible. Her aim is to break her own record, even though she knows that nobody will be there to celebrate with her. She uses to spend this day on several lines of the underground, in New York. That's the place where she can give the best. Focused on the crosswords, she doesn't care about the world arou...
