Bosnia, Ramadan 2013. During the doomsday, so the Koran says, the mountains will rise up as a feather. A merciless calamity or an eventual release from the burden of pain? The film gives voice to a daring personal attempt to understand the suffering and the resistence in Bosnia. Mostar and Sarajevo are seen in passing, through the fragmented viewpoints of a confraternity of ...
Sylvia works as a secretary and lives in the outskirts of London with her intellectually disabled sister, Hilda. Her solitary and bleak existence turns around a small group of people who, like Sylvia, have communication problems. Mike Leigh's debut film is ironic and moving. The director considers it "the mother of all my movies".
A man moves alone in an empty apartment. Behind the camera there is his daughter, following him in his new life as a widower, started four years ago. In the evening, the man gets ready to go to the cinema, where he will meet Vera, an Ukrainian woman who will become his closest friend. Vera has left in Ukraine her daughter, Halina, who sends her mom photos and videos to share...
Roberto is an histrionic sixty year old man who thinks outside the box. He tells us about how intensely he has lived without taking anything for granted, his experiences, his personal and generational disappointments and his unaccomplished dreams. He goes from his first accident in Lambretta to his discovery of punk music and from his first job as a janitor to his father&rsq...
Over the course of a midsummer night in Fermanagh in 1890, an unsettled daughter of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy encourages her father's valet to seduce her. The famous play by August Strindberg adapted for the screen and stage in multiple countries and languages, gets an Anglophone interpretation from the legendary Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann.
The celebrations for the centenary of the coronation of the statue of Our Lady of Cornabusa mark the passing of time and seasons. The festival of fire announces the beginning of the autumn. During the night, the valley lights up and the rain accompanies the migration of the last animals that move from Pallio coast to the lower contradas. The hunters prepare the hunting calls...
Bing, a Chinese girl, moves from China to Torino. Waiting for her, there is her new brother...
Every night, in the historic and most important milongas in Buenos Aires, in addition to an incredible number of Tango enthusiasts, the most famous Milongueros speak about themselves and explain how the Tango, before being a wonderful music and a sensual dance, it is primarily "a way of life".
A man, inside his kitchen, is preparing his packed lunch. He has decided to visit The Brion Tomb, a monumental funeral complex, designed and built by the Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa, commissioned by Onorina Brion Tomasin, to honour the memory of the deceased and beloved relative Giuseppe Brion, founder and owner of the Brionvega company, located in the small cemetery of ...
Claude Zoret, a famous and rich painter, falls in love with one of his models, Michael, and for a time the two live happily as partners. Zoret is considerably older than Michael, and as they age, Michael begins to drift from him, although Zoret is completely blind to this. When a bankrupt countess comes to Zoret to have a portrait made — with the real intent of seducing him ...
