Schizophrenia and games. Refined culture and Raffaella Carrà. Ostentation and shyness. Do the ones hiding under excessive make-up want to unveil themselves in front of the cameras? It's like a puzzle: the world of the Drag Queens told with intelligence and attention.
The first film written, produced and directed by the British film making team of Michael Powell and Emeric tells the story of an indestructible friendship between an English and a German officials. This friendship lasts from 1902 to 1943 and survives two world wars and the love for the same woman. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is an optimistic opera which deals with fr...
The film features two men, who emerge from the sea carrying a large wardrobe, which they proceed to carry into a town. Carrying the wardrobe, the two encounter a series of hostile events, including being attacked by a group of youths. Finally, they go back to the beach and then disappear in the sea.
Two hundread years after its creation, a portrait of the Evangelic community, from the Swiss matrix of its origin to the various and rich experiences and cultures that it expresses today. The documentary portrays, through the sensibility of its several components, a community which keeps on influencing, with its discrete presence, the life and culture of the city of Bergamo.
Martino è custode notturno del Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino nella Mole Antonelliana, dove passa il tempo a visionare vecchi film muti ed a fare egli stesso delle riprese con una vecchia cinepresa ad 8 millimetri. Abita in un locale all'interno dell'edificio, che ha arredato imitando un film di Buster Keaton. Una sera Amanda, una ragazza che lavora...
Il dono follows the arid daily life in a village in Calabria which was once densily populate, but today deserted. An impertubable old man and a girl, who is believed to be possesed, seem to be simply waiting to be devoured by the time. The girl offers her body to the assaults of the passing drivers who give her a lift and know no tenderness. The old man finds a mobile phone ...
Since the second half of the 70's, the actors of Teatro Tascabile di Bergamo (TTB) go to India once a year to study in depth and practice various forms of theatrical performances. In Kerala, the traditional dance-drama is called Kathakali. The film tells about a particular moment, in which four actors, who represent four different "generations", tackle the Kath...
When a conservative middle-aged professor engages in a minor dalliance with a femme fatale, he is plunged into a nightmarish quicksand of blackmail and murder. Magnificent is the twist at the end of the movie which comes as a total surprise.
Horace Vending, a young man born to a poor family, is raised as their own child by the Burnsides as a reward to have saved their beloved daughter Martha from drowning. Once an adult, Horace asks Martha to marry him even though he knew his friend Vic was in love with her. Horace doesn't love Martha, but he is ready to everything to make his way. Before the marriage, he abando...
In a typical Latin-American cabaret of a poor quartier of Panama, singers, comedians, conjurers and acrobats perform for a public composed by longshoremen, unemployed, workers and poor people. They are "those of the Barrio", the ones living in the quartier where everybody lives like in any other working-class district, dancing, dreaming, loving and working to the b...