The Danish tournée of Bergamo Teatro Tascabile in Holstebro, where the street theatre festival organized by Odin Teatret of Eugenio Barba takes place. During ten days of frantic and relentless work, Teatro Tascabile puts up 34 theatrical and musical performances in several Danish locations. The film, with its fast and energetic rhythm, tells about the delicate moment the gro...
A complex picture of the reality of the maximum-security prison in Volterra. The main characters are the long-term prisoners and the guards of the Tuscan jail. Everybody is originally from south Italy. Crimes, trials and verdicts that have changed their stories forever. The film shows the main characters while working on the preparation of a theatrical adaptation of Brecht's...
The film is a compilation of footages shot between 1900 and 1920 by the documentary maker Luca Comerio. Sequences of a railway journey through the Alps, scenes from an Italian expedition to the South Pole, scenes of Italian missionaries in Africa and Russian soldiers at the border with Iran and scenes of the daily life in India, Africa, Tangeri, scenes of a big game and imag...
Il film narra la storia di una giovane coppia che vive nella periferia sud di Londra: la loro vita e la loro relazione sullo sfondo di una realtà sociale in veloce mutamento e di una struttura urbana in costante declino.
A cinematic journey into the world of Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa and his passion for Japanese culture.
The brilliant director Andrey Tarkovsky, whose works are considered masterpieces of world cinema, left us with eight films and an ever growing interest in and desire to understand his work. The documentary recounts Tarkovsky’s life and work, letting the director tell the story himself, as he shares with us his memories, his view of art and his reflections on the destin...
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...
Abraham and Shraga are Orthodox Jewish aging twins who live a secluded existence in their inherited Brooklyn home. Since the death of their parents, they have stopped throwing away anything, hosting stray cats and accumulating all sorts of stuff. Enraged by the situation, the upstairs tenant threatens to stop paying them rent unless they proceed with a radical cleaning of...
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...
Soon after the end of the Second World War, in the small orthodox village of Vitanija, the new communist authorities starts the so called "God's uprooting" process. They enter the church, hanging the flag of the Communist Party and overpaint frescoes, but frescos each time miraculously return, so the people start thinking that the Messiah is in the village and he is doing mi...
