The discovery of some precious footages shot in Calabria in the 60's is the starting point of a journey through the memories, real or imaginary, of a land where magic still exists…
rm sea, but Giò, the group leader, can't understand Edda's expectations. In the meantime, Hermann, a young German guy, decides to leave on a journey with his camera. Edda, after a failed debut, abandons the theatre company and meets Hermann. It's love at first sight. Thanks to the black and white and the cinema scope, Konermann's on-the-road movie, ric...
"She says I was sick... you are sick, you are sick, I am sick... do you feel good? I don't think so". Francesca's words open the film. "La Carovana" ("The Caravan") is a self-help/mutual aid group of parents of children with intellectual disabilities. The group gives them the possibility of telling their stories, which are also their children's stories, without feeling extra...
Five young Japanese cyclists go to Burkina Faso to take part in the most important African competition, the Tour of Faso. The movie is about the contrast between two completely different worlds: the structured and monotone life of the members of the Japanese team and the African reality. On top of that, there is the difference between the rigid climate of Japan compared to t...
Sent on a mission to Paris to control the work of three Soviet agents, a rigid and stern Russian Communist commissary opens her heart for the beautiful eyes of an aristocratic man and a neat little hat. Based on a screenplay written by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett, Lubitsch's movie depicts a world of luxurious hotels, revolving doors, penniless nobility and moral aristo...
One day, when he was only a child, the director found in his grandparents' house an incomplete series of postcards with pictures of his family's village. These six postcards showed the events that took place in that small village, near the Spanish border, when the Republicans, escaping from the Francoist Spain, arrived to France at the end of Spanish war, in 1939. Twenty yea...
During the fight for the Liberation, the city of Piacenza counted 860 deaths and went through brutal massacres, but thanks to the Resistance, it obtained freedom. For this reason, in 1996, the city has been honored with the Golden Medal for Military Merit in the Resistance. The documentary follows the stages of the Liberation process through the voice of the ones who fought ...
Tom, who suffers from an eating disorder and is recovered in a clinic, has gotten her menstrual cycle back. When the doctor tells her it’s a good sign because it means her condition is improving, she panics: the idea of gaining back the kilos she lost scares her to death. It seems like a day to forget but when she meets Neil, a tuba player with socialization problems, ...
Harry Hinkle, an honest cameraman, is knocked over during a football game by the Afro-American champion Luther "Boon Boom" Jackson. His brother in law, an unscrupulous lawyer, persuades him to pretend to be paralyzed to cheat the insurance. A funny comedy about family ties, cynicism and material interests: everybody is cheating to satisfy their own needs.
In post-war Casablanca, all the managers of a famous hotel have wound up being murdered by a Nazi who introduces himself as Count Pfefferman. His aim is to recover a hoard of war, a collection of art works that has been cached in the hotel. Also the new director risks to be killed, but with the help of two employees of the hotel, he will manage to have the killer and his gan...
Jong-du has been just released from prison for the third time, but his return home is not happy. One of his brothers is unemployed, the other one tries to involve him in his small business, without any success. Jong-du spends his days wandering adrift through the city. He suddenly decides to visit Gong-yu, the sister of the man he accidentally killed with his motorbike. She ...
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...
Oloimugi è il nome di un albero, un tesoro per la comunità Maasai. Il film Oloimugi ritrae un giorno nella vita di un piccolo villaggio tradizionale Maasai nella Laikipia County, in Kenya centrale.
One man gets stabbed while he is sleeping in his bed. Polanski's first short movie.
Mr. De Waal leads a quiet life: married, one son and a shop. During a routine control at the hospital, he is asked to stay overnight to continue the exams the day after. This situation takes him by surprise and during the night, he will turn from sane to insane.
The story takes place in a conservative Danish city, where the widower Morten Borgen antagonises the entire city because of his heretic doubts. Even his children, Anders and Mikkel, don't believe in God. The third son, Johannes, believes, instead, to be Jesus Christ. Ordet is about the conflict between the inner faith and the organized religion movements. Based on a play by ...
Autumn 1943. A kid follows his mom on the mountains where a group of partigians is hiding.
Set in between the 19th and 20th century, when the industrialization process revolutionizes the consolidated habits, the movie tells the story of the Amberson, the wealthiest family in the southern States, and their downfall caused by their inability to accept any change. The widow Amberson would like to marry again with one of her former lover. Her son, proud and selfish, i...
Lucy and Larry, after many years of marriage, get convinced wrongly that they have both cheated on the other and decide to get a divorce. The divorce, complicated because of the problem of the custody of Mr. Smith, the fox terrier dog of the couple, is to become final in 90 days, but Larry is still jealous of his wife. After having come to blows with Armand Duvalle, an "inno...
The continuous thirty-two hours working shift of some doctors at the Emergency. The doctors are fighting against tiredness and the technical lacks of the hospital.
