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...
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...
In the deserted hills of an Indonesian island, Marlina, a young widow, is attacked and robbed for her cattle. To defend herself, she kills several men of the gang. Seeking justice, she goes on a journey for empowerment and redemption. But the road is long especially when the ghost of her headless victim begins to haunt her. Mouly Surya pioneers a new genre, crea...
World premiere at Venice 2017, Horizons competition. Yoel, a senior Shoah researcher, is in the midst of a widely covered legal battle with powerful forces in Austria, concerning a brutal massacre of Jews that took place toward the end of WWII in the village of Lendsdorf. An influential family of industrialists on whose land the murder took place, is planning to build a r...
Mario Brunello plays an ancient melody over images of cemeteries and memorial chapels from the Great War. Actors recount the other side of Caporetto. A story from Eco di uno sparo by Massimo Zamboni. The massacre at Piazza della Loggia. One hundred years after that military defeat, the present-day Caporetto is demographic. Different stories but the same question: what purpos...
Fourteen-year-old J goes by the pronoun ”They” and lives with their parents in the suburbs of Chicago. J is exploring their gender identity while taking hormone blockers to postpone puberty. After two years of medication and therapy, J has to make a decision whether or not to transition. Over this crucial weekend while their parents are away, J’s ...
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...
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Helvetica} Looking for a miracle, Angelina lands at a healing center in the Peruvian Amazon where shamans minister to a group of foreign psychonauts seeking transcendence, companionship, and the secrets of life and death. Her perceptions altered by the ancient psychedelic plant known as ayahuasca, she bonds with Ar...
