Milano, Cinema Beltrade Napoli, Artecinema – Festival Internazionale di Film sull'Arte contemporanea Perugia, Postmodernissimo Bergamo, Auditorium Cinema Lab 80 Fiorenzuola (PC), Cinema Capitol Torino, Museo Nazionale del Cinema Reggio Emilia, Cinema Rosebud Roma, Apollo 11 Lecce, Officine della Fotografia c/o Officine Cantelmo Tre...
Dopo l’esperienza di Entroterra Giambellino (2012), con questa seconda ricerca-azione il collettivo immaginariesplorazioni affronta l’arena di pratiche urbane che, nella città di Milano, esprimono un’esperienza di condivisione dell’abitare. In termini antropologici, questo lavoro si pone l’obiettivo di indagare la matrice culturale...
A couple of lovers lives together an entire century of life while objects, trends, movies at the movie theatre and architects follow one another in a slow but inexorable decline towards the horror. Their obsession with the octagonal knobs of the coffeemakers and with the anonymous design objects will accompany them along the passing by of the decades. Aging and gradual...
Loznitsa’s Austerlitz is a documentary study, with almost no audible dialogue of any kind, of the increasingly established tourist phenomenon at the Nazi death camps in Germany. He sets up fixed camera positions at the Dachau and Sachsenhausen camps, which have huge visitor numbers due to being close to big cities (Munich and Berlin respectively) and simply records the...
SYNOPSIS Africa. In the wild expanses, where bushbucks, impalas, zebras, gnus and other creatures graze by the thousands, they are on holiday. German and Austrian hunting tourists drive through the bush, lie in wait, stalk their prey. They shoot, sob with excitement and pose before the animals they have bagged. A vacation movie about killing, a movie about human nature. ...
The prison not only as a place for detention, but for reflection and gaining awareness. Twelve months with the detainees convicted for sex crimes and the intensive treatment team from CIPM, operating the first experiment in Italy to prevent recidivism of sexual violence. A treatment designed to understand, redefine and then change the meaning of our own e...
In Erik Gandini’s recent documentary The Swedish Theory of Love (2015) there is a character who stands out, the surgeon Erik Erichsen. This film is an intimate portrait of him and his wife Sennait. After serving 30 years in a Swedish hospital Dr Erichsen was fed up with all the bureaucracy and administration. He decided to move someplace where he could make a...
The legendary Oleg Nikolayevitch Karavaychuk is the mysterious and moving subject of this loving film by the director Duque. He was moved by the music the pianist composed for a film by Kira Muratova and is the first foreigner to win the trust of the eccentric and still active 89-year-old Russian. Several biographical facts: Oleg Nikolayevich Karavaychuk (1927) played the pi...
An ordinary family dinner becomes a fuse sparking a family crisis when four brothers discover something they hadn’t known about their father’s past. We are in contemporary Bucharest but the ghost of the Ceaus?escu dictatorship, which fell not so long ago, leaves traces in every family and brings to light the irreconcilable differences separating the generation wh...
Radu is a simple trainee journalist, but an international scandal involving an underage prostitute seems to be the chance for him to prove his value. He is ready to overcome each obstacle and deliver a good story. However, the task turns out to be trickier than expected and the more he approaches his goal, the more he gets close to some moral limits. In collabor...