Cotacachi, Ecuador. A small colony of elderly American expats retires here to escape the effects of the global economic crisis. The tale of their lives and relationships provides the portrait of an exiled micro-community, a community hurt and traumatized, by the betrayal of the American Dream. They're looking for security, prosperity, well-being and - above all...
Three stories of ordinary loneliness. Laura works for a travel agency and has to decide if she should date one of her clients. Massimo, a student of architecture, spends his time looking at a girl in the library. Luca, father and husband, dates young men. They all would like to find happiness and experience the power of love, but their ways and times are wrong and they miss ...
The film follows Gianluigi Trovesi, one of the greatest Italian jazz musician, in a journey through the musical aesthetics that he contributed to shape. The film accompanies the protagonist from the courtyard, a familiar and protected environment, and from the known and comforting images and sounds of his mother country to new, unknown and stimulating musical territories and...
Johnny Barrett, an ambitious journalist of the Globe, is determined to win a Pulitzer Prize by writing a front page article. Together with the director of the newspaper, he plans to solve a murder committed in a lunatic asylum and witnessed only by three inmates, from whom the police have been unable to extract the information. With the connivance of a psychiatrist, and the ...
DAL 5 MAGGIO AL CINEMA Angelo e Kasia si incontrano e innamorano in Italia, entrambi fanno parte del movimento cattolico dei Focolarini. Quando lei decide di tornare in Polonia per entrare in convento, lui decide di seguirla nella speranza che cambi idea. Nel frattempo, a Varsavia, trova lavoro in una multinazionale, dove la sua superiore Krystyna, una donna disinibita e ...
Ciro is a young boxer. He lives in the old quartier of Ventaglieri, in the historical centre of Naples. He is a quiet boy who practices a gory sport and faces difficulties with tenderness and silent tenaciousness as a real champion. The film tells about silences, breaths, bodies, boxing rings, the fans' screams, Ciro's tenderness contrasting the crudity of the boxing, the re...
Rome, 1736. Abramo Cajvani and Angeluccio della Riccia, both Jewish, are reported for breaking and entering. According to the law of that time, they are sentenced to death. Routinely, the night before the execution, the condemned ones are assisted by the Brothers of San Giovanni Decollato Archconfraternity, who, in Christian compassion, waited on the last moments of those w...
Lyon, 1943. A car driven by an SS soldier is transporting French prisoners to the prison of Montluc. One of them, Fontaine, to whom they forgot to put in handcuffs, jumps from the running car. He will be soon captured again, beaten, put in chains and locked in jail. Fontaine's charges are heavy ones. For four months, in the loneliness of his prison, he prepares a plan to es...
The film tells about the recently instituted course for Kitchen Services Operator, an alternative to the Catering college. Financed by the European Economic Community, it also includes a training course for disabled teenagers. The production of Competenze spendibili originated from the idea of an "artistic" performance applied to visual antropology. The directors were to spe...
Shot in the head by a bullet during a police operation, Hoffmann, a young biologist, has lost his memory. He doesn't know who he is. He has to learn again to see, to listen, to feel, to walk, to speak. What really happened that night? Despite his sickness - or actually thanks to it - Hoffmann manages to break the vicious cycle of phantasy and speculation. Pretending to have ...
