The Camonica valley. While at Cedegolo, a village down the valley, an employee of the electricity supplier society carries out his daily duties, high up in the mountains, at the "Arno" lake dam his work-pals, keepers of the dam, wait to be relieved by the next shift coming in by chopper. The time dictating the narration of the film is a time that flows slowly, beaten by dai...
They who think that Bergamo is a provincial city, where people are inexorably hemmed in cages, day after day, lifelong, should meet the main characters of Stop and start traffic. Commuting, be it a chosen or imposed lifestyle, is not only the main subject of the modern sociologic debate, but, first of all, it is the private matter of many individual stories.
Géza is married, has two children and works in a garage, but he is unsatisfied and would like to work on his own. He decides to buy a power drill and starts working for private people. He likes his new job, which gives him the chance to meet Eva, the beautiful neighbor.
Translating tells about the journey of words from a language to another. The luggage is carried by the translator, who is leading us. During the journey, language becomes a musical instrument and the translator turns into a baker, who bring fresh bread on the table, every day. Every language is a sound, a sound that fascinates and pushes you towards the meaning.
Daniela and Donato, together with some actors of Araucaìma Teater, visit the places of experiences that scarred them. From the dialog, some fragments of their complicated lives come to light. The landscape is a silent witness.
Two fortyish men who haven't seen each other for two decades bump into each other one grey afternoon in the Place de la Bastille. Joseph has been just fired from the typography where he worked, while Alexandre, who dreamt to become a writer, ended up writing investigative reports as a pen pusher. On top of that, libido is decreasing, and they share the impression that nobody...
In Miskolc, in 1982, a teenager shoots with a rifle to his father, without any reason, apparently. The mother, who just came back for the hospital, will find out what her son did a few days after. The boy is now in prison, where he must stay for thirteen years. His father's dream was to open again a shooting gallery. The film won the Rosa Camuna prize at Bergamo Film Meetin...
Charlie Kohler is a piano player in a bar. The waitress, Lena, is in love with him. One of Charlie's brother, Chico, a crook, takes refuge in the bar because he is chased by two gangsters, Momo and Ernest. We will discover that Charlie's real name is Edouard Saroyan, once a virtuose who gives up after his wife's suicide. Charlie now has to deal with Chico, Ernest, Momo, Fido...
Tano, the old barber of the village, promises to his son Tino, who dreams to become a barber like his dad, that the day of his fifteenth birthday he will be allowed to shave his first client. But that day, Tino dies. Tano, who has lost his mind, closes the shop and tries to resuscitate him in a quite curious way…
In the spring of 1896, five years after the mysterious exile, Tiburzi, an highwayman, suddenly reappears in the Maremma area, in Tuscany, Italy, the place where he had been ruling for twenty-five years. But something has changed. Now the house of Savoy reign on those territories, which were once considered wild and dangerous. A manhunt is organized by the local police and th...
