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...
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...
A small village situated in the Alps between Italy and Switzerland hosts an international gathering focusing on the web and digital culture: the world convention of Wikimania’s volunteers. The film follows the preparations in the months preceding the event, the involvement of the locals and the quiet indifference of daily life in the mountains. A choral tale ...
Roberto is an histrionic sixty year old man who thinks outside the box. He tells us about how intensely he has lived without taking anything for granted, his experiences, his personal and generational disappointments and his unaccomplished dreams. He goes from his first accident in Lambretta to his discovery of punk music and from his first job as a janitor to his father&rsq...
Through valuable archive material and the real voices of female partisan, this film tells the role of women in the Italian Resistance. According to many, this period marked the birth of feminism in Italy, where the struggle fo liberation is also seen as emancipation and pursuit of freedom and equality. What happened after the celebrations of April 25, 1945? What did women g...
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 ...
Skopje, Macedonia. With the economy in recession and wage payments months overdue Vele, a mechanic who work in a train depot, struggles to afford medicine for his ailing father afflicted with a cancer. When he accidentally finds in a wagon a packet of marijuana, clandestinely smuggled and hidden on an incoming train, he steals it to make a cake for his father, to rel...
