Nikola is ten years old and two parents who are constantly fighting. His father is a music teacher and sometimes plays music for marriages. His mother, in order to escape the monotony of an housewife's life, has recently started to earn some money working as a personal assistant for lonely old people. In need of help to accomplish all her tasks, she involves her son, who soo...
Tamás, a young coal miner, and Juli, a kindergarten teacher, meet in the summer of 1999. Both too bashful to declare their love to each other, their tender friendship delays to turn into love. On the 31st December, Juli decides to write to Tamás. She will wait for him at 10 that evening at Rocher bar. Tamás reads and reads again the letter, while his team leader is reading t...
A reflection on the human being, on the human condition. The city of Tallinn, capital of Estonia, offers the rare possibility of observing freely, without tricks of the eye nor violence. People welcome the watching eye naturally, they do not feel offended nor do they withdraw, they participate willingly, discreetly. In every place: in bars, on streetcars, along the street. T...
Qin works as an assistant of a manager and her good working position allows her to buy a house. Lon, her boyfriend, is always talking about vague American dreams into which he wishes to involve her. When her company merge with a bigger one, she finds herself without a job. On top of that, her love story with Lon seems to finish, because he is too similar to her father. One o...
Above the ground: in the 60's, Mario moved to France and built his house in Landres, Lorraine region. Under the ground: while building his house, Mario has worked in a iron mine for 20 years. Today the mines are closed, the floods made the soil unstable. Hundreds of buildings crumbled down and some other are precarious. Mario lives a kafkaesque situation: for years, he has b...
Dana Andrews is brutal metropolitan police detective Dixon, who despises all criminals because his father had been one. When the cops pick up two-bit gambler Ken Paine (Craig Stevens) as a murder suspect, Dixon subjects Paine to the third degree -- and accidentally kills him. In disposing of the body, Dixon inadvertently places the blame for the killing on cab driver Jiggs T...
Augustín, medico rabdomante, sua moglie Julia e la figlia Estrella abitano a La Gaviota, una casa nei sobborghi di una città nel Nord della Spagna. Estrella, cresciuta subendo il fascino di Augustín, da adolescente si confronta con la figura paterna e il sospetto che nella sua vita ci sia stata un'altra donna. Man mano che nuovi elementi sul passato ...
The incipit of Goethe's Wanders Nachtlied names this film which is the natural sequel of Prisoners of war. Both the movies are made up of archive footages which, thanks to a meticulous two-years-long research, have been found, studied, disassembled and edited. The images speak for themselves, beautiful, yet horrible, anti-rethorical, and specular. They tell us about the ...
What does an ordinary day in Gaza look like? Striplife starts nonetheless with an extraordinary event: dozens of manta rays have washed up on Gaza City beach. A miraculous catch that livens up the city where Antar is preparing to record a song, Noor is getting ready for his working day as a Watania TV reporter, teenagers in the Khan Younis camp are limbering up for...
From the age of 4, following a car accident, Eya moves on a wheelchair, which she drives with great dexterity thanks to a joystick that she controls with her lips and chin. The story of her and her parents is characterized by constant leaps beyond the horizon of possibilities. Today Eya is almost 17, she is a smart and tenacious girl and like many of her peers she must begin...
