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 ...
Silvia Gribaudi is one of the most important Italian performers and choreographers. Her constant research on unusual and “invisible” bodies has led her to work over the last decade with women “over 60” from all over Italy, all without artistic experience, gently accompanying them to cross the boundaries imposed by society. With Rosaria she begins a re...
A fine anni ’60 Emilio Sidoti, maestro elementare ad Albisola, decide di realizzare alcuni film insieme ai suoi alunni con l’idea di sviluppare il loro sguardo critico in un percorso espressivo libero e radicale. Prende vita così Cinema dei Ragazzi, la prima esperienza di ‘scuola con il cinema’ realizzata in Italia, che generer&a...
Marco Belelli, aka Divino Otelma, is a well-known Italian philosopher and television personality. He has 6 degrees and owes his notoriety to his past career as a magician, chansonnier, politician. He is also the founder of the Theurgical Order of Elios and the Church of the Living, a cult with more than 20,000 followers, in which he has the role of a self-proclaimed Go...
AL CINEMA Un film documentario che segue il gruppo rock dei Verdena nella loro vita privata e nella preparazione del tour di “Volevo Magia”, disco che segna il loro rientro sulle scene dopo sette anni di silenzio. Un’opera unica per capacità di entrare nell’intimità dei protagonisti, all’interno delle loro famiglie, nel profond...
Il film racconta trent‘anni di storia della Curva Nord dell’Atalanta, narrata da uno dei suoi ultras più emblematici, Claudio “Bocia” Galimberti. La storia senza tregua di una realtà ribelle, dedicata ad una causa: la libertà di essere il granello di sabbia che blocca l’ingranaggio. IN SALA A: 19 gennaio - Br...
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.
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.
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 ...
Voices, aspirations and contradictions of contemporary Iran through the lens of the nearly undocumented world of Zurkhaneh, the ancient Iranian gymnasia where traditional martial arts and music merge. Based on three years of ethnographic research, the film journeys from the Iranian diaspora in Canada, across urban Iran, to the first international Zurkhaneh Olympic tournament...
