Xiaoyang vive a Taipei con il fratello Xiaofang e la sorellina. I tre sono orfani di madre e il padre lavora in un’altra città: l'unico parente vicino è il nonno. Xiaoyang lavora come cameriera in un fast-food; Xiaofang gestisce un locale, dove lavora un suo amico, Asang, che, come lo stesso Xiaofang, ha un passato poco pulito. I due cercano di compor...
The camera moves around the villages of the high Caucasus, in the Northern Azerbaijan, where ancient tribes still live, like the mountain Jews. Monika Bulaj enters this world, made of daily gestures, magic and mysteries. Houses toil up mountains and during the night the men tell stories, always different ones. Those people seem to belong both to the earth and the sky. The ti...
A successful insurance salesman returns to his office late one night. Visibly in pain, he begins dictating a confession. The story, told primarily in flashback, involves a beautiful, yet dangerous, woman, Phillys Dietrichson. The two met when her husband's insurance policy expired. Widely regarded as a classic, it is often cited as a paradigmatic film noir that has set the ...
Pablo is a strange guy. He eats only wild fruits and dogs get furious when he passes by. One day he runs away and holes up in the forest. He risks to be torn to pieces by some dogs but he is rescued by Luis, a psychologist. Pablo now resembles an animal. Luis brings him back to town to educate him. Ana, a young piano player will awaken his feelings. The movie was screened at...
Licu, 27 years old, was born in Bangladesh. He is muslim and for a few years he has lived in Rome in a flat shared with other eight people. He has just gotten his residency permit and he works twelve hours a day. In the morning he works as a warehouse worker in a textile workshop and in the evening as a cashier in a food shop. With his Elvis hairstyle, his designer shirts an...
The movie tells the story of the greatest discus thrower Helga Rabova and present some reflections about life and the choiches that rarely don't imply a moral sacrifice. The title derives from the story that uncle Nezir tell. It tells about the fenix, the bird that every year gives happiness to the ones who believe in it.
In Venice, amongst the clothes hung out to dry and a small altar with Jesus's effigy, hides an historical section of "Rifondazione comunista", the Italian Communist Refoundation Party. Gianni, Saverio and Corrado meet there daily since 1973, year in which they founded the local section of the party. Day after day, many things have happened: the Berlin Wall fell, the Soviet U...
A year on an Alpine farm: an older couple have two children, Belli, who wanted to be a teacher, and the younger Franzi, deaf and, although he works like a man, child-like. Belli teaches him to read and count. In his work, he can become frustrated, so when he throws an expensive mower over a cliff in a fit of pique, his father banishes him to the outskirts of the farm, where ...
Greenaway's first feature film is a documentary in which ninety-two persons are interviewed. They are all victims of a mysterious occurrence known as The Violent Unknown Event, or V.U.E. It has caused immortality and disability. A guidebook, published every ten years by the V.U.E. Board of Inquiry, illustrates the stories of the ninety-two persons involved in the catastrophe...
Verona, 1970. Sergio is a nine-year-old only child. Though apparently well adjusted, he is nicknamed "the Lone Ranger" thanks to his solitary habits. His middle-class parents Anna and Paolo are going through a rough patch and unhappily debate whether to terminate Anna's unwanted pregnancy. During a long summer vacation in the country, the imaginative Sergio at first fiercely...
