The film, conceived as an academic research, aims at investigating the relationship between several religions and the ways in which the experience of faith influences daily life on the territory of Bergamo. The starting point of the research was the "shadowing" experience together with Benoit, a young student of theology, who decided to spend a period of meditation in Europe...
The film follows Tome's life from the war to the beginning of the 60s'. Grown up in the north to a family of poor farmers, Tome has always been put upon in working and sexually abused. Nobuko, her daughter, is born from a one-night stand. Following a failed marriage, Tome moves to a city and finds her own independence working first as a worker and maid and after as a prosti...
Helén and Jenö are waiting for a child and are desperately searching for an accomodation. They eventually sign a contract with an old lady, Szeréna, who lives in a two-family house. According to the contract, they are to pay a moderate rent and they have to take care of her until her death. After the first weeks, Szeréna accuses the couple of trying to poison her and build...
Kirpi is a middle-class writer whose latest screenplay has been rejected. He is married to a sharp-tongued woman who dubs the voice of Marilyn Monroe. He will find himself involved in Kiraz's marital distress, his servant. Left Istanbul to reach Kiraz in her village, in the Turkish countryside, he finds out that away from the sophistication of the capital, life is regulated ...
Synopsis Dedicated home care nurse Vlasta attends her capricious patients in the Czech wine country, and lives for her husband Lada and her daughter, giving them more than they are asking for. Then, one day, things change and Vlasta is forced to step outside of her comfort zone. Drama and gentle humor intertwine as Vlasta realizes, for the first time in her life, that she...
In the late 1800's, Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire, falls for Sophie Chotek, a Czech countess. He's already a problem to the Crown because of his political ideas; this love affair with someone not of royal blood breeches protocol. The Crown allows the union only after the couple agrees to a morganatic marriage. The emperor further neutralizes Fr...
The film is a compilation of footages shot between 1900 and 1920 by the documentary maker Luca Comerio. Sequences of a railway journey through the Alps, scenes from an Italian expedition to the South Pole, scenes of Italian missionaries in Africa and Russian soldiers at the border with Iran and scenes of the daily life in India, Africa, Tangeri, scenes of a big game and imag...
Kieslowski's diploma film tells about some young girls, workers at one of Lodzi's large textile factories, protesting against the break-up of a band of old style mandolin players. The film shines a peculiar and enchanting light on the daily life in an unusual and decadent city.
Architect Walter Craig arrives at a country house to be restored where he meets some guests invited for a party. He immediately experience a déjà vu, as if he was living in one of his recurrent dreams. He knows the dream has a scaring ending, but he doesn't remember it. When he reveals to the guests that he has already seen them all in a dream, they start entertaining each o...
Four workers climb a 20 metres high gantry crane inside the hangar of the INNSE, the last active factory in Milan. They threaten to throw themselves down to stop the dismantling of the machineries and the closure of the factory they work in. The hangar is surrounded by dozens of policemen and supporters from all over Italy. The four workers spend eight days and eight nights ...
Hiraoka breaks into Riichi's house, while he is away with his son, and he raped his wife. She decides to commit suicide but not before having seen her son for the last time. When her husband is back, Sadako can't find the courage to tell him what happened. Two days after, while Riichi is visiting his lover and colleague, Hiraoka breaks into his house again and Sadako takes a...
During the war, lieutenant Hashimoto and three other accomplices, buried a cache of morphine in an air-raid shelter under a military hospital and they agreed to meet again ten years later to dig out the treasure. On that day, five people show up, but Hashimoto originally had only three accomplices. He hid the morphine late at night, so they did not know each other's identiti...
The film tells the confused and complex life of a family of itinerant actors who comes originally from Osaka. The young director, who has abandoned the university for love of the theatre, is secretely in love with his son's wife, but he is tormented by his youngest daughter, still unmarried. During their tournée, they stop in a tiny village where all these relationships will...
Al Roberts, a piano player working in New York, hitchhikes to reach his girlfriend Sue in Los Angeles. Haskell, a rich man, gives him a ride and start telling him about the last hitchhiker he gave a ride to: a girl who scratched his face when he made advances to her. Al takes his turn driving while Haskel falls asleep. When he tries to wake him up, Al realizes that he is dea...
Interviews to different women who are asked to answer two questions: "What do you have in common with your mother? What does your mother have in common with you?" Women who tell about the deepest blood tie, the ancestral and biological bond.
Di madre in figlia racconta una scheggia di storia patria. Il Coro delle Mondine di Novi, un gruppo di venti donne, molte delle quali ottantenni, ancora si esibisce in sagre e feste. Le loro canzoni di protesta, d’amore, di malinconia, sono le stesse che cantavano lavorando in risaia molti decenni fa. GUARDALO SUBITO
A young priest in poor health is sent to the parish of Ambricourt, a small provincial village. The priest keeps a daily journal in which he records "the humble and meaningless secrets of a life without misteries". Not welcome by his parishioners because of his ascetic lifestyle and criticized by his colleagues who think that he neglets the real problems of his community, the...
1623, Denmark. Anne, the young wife of the pastor Absalon Pederssön hides the old Marte, who is accused of witchcraft. When Marte is found, she asks the pastor to defend her, knowing that he had already protected a woman accused of witchcraft, Anne's mother, with the aim of marry her daughter. Marte will be tortured, obliged to confess and sent to the stake. Anne, agitated b...
Un illusionista omosessuale di mezza età vive la propria esistenza in un sofferto intreccio di sensazioni e di ricordi, legati questi ultimi all’estate del 1936 vissuta da tre adolescenti in un villa di Granata, all’amore di un ragazzo drammaticamente travolto dallo scoppio della guerra civile che doveva lacerare l’intera Spagna.
In a typical Latin-American cabaret of a poor quartier of Panama, singers, comedians, conjurers and acrobats perform for a public composed by longshoremen, unemployed, workers and poor people. They are "those of the Barrio", the ones living in the quartier where everybody lives like in any other working-class district, dancing, dreaming, loving and working to the b...
