The government of a small state fears that the rich owner of almost all the capitals of the nation, a widow now, gets married again and brings all her money abroad. So the royal coffers send to Paris, where she lives, a young officer with the mission of winning her heart (and consequently her money). Adaptation of the operetta of the same name by Franz Lehar, the movie is pe...
Two collection agents of the tobacco Monopoly are killed during a robbery. The main suspected is Enokizu, a delivery courier on behalf of the Monopoly. Police starts an inquiry about him and finds out that Enokizu is married and has two daughters, but his family never sees him. The man, feeling oppressed by all these controls, commits a series of crimes and for seventy-eight...
Stefan è in pellegrinaggio verso il santuario di Lourdes. Hasim e Urika, due piccoli rifugiati ceceni, hanno attraversato il confine russo-polacco illegalmente. Quando capiscono che Stefan sta partendo, si nascondono nella sua auto, nella speranza di arrivare fino in Francia e ricongiugersi al proprio padre. Ciò che accade in questo viaggio tra Stefan e i bambi...
Marie, twenty years old, comes out from prison and moves in with her brother Antoine, who hangs out with a rough crowd and is involved in drugs dealing. One evening, Antoine, decides to keep for himself the money he takes on behalf of another drug dealer and offers an holiday to Marie, but he is killed soon afterwards in circumstances that are unclear. Marie will move heaven...
A beautiful song attracts the attention of Duillio in the most important day of his life. As the water flows slowly in a channel, the melody sloshes. It knows no obstacles, it hides no lies.
Around Liegi, coal has been excavated until the 70s' to make the furnace of the steel factories work. Today, only an attentive eye can recognize what is left of the Collart mines. Sergio Stramare, who has worked for eleven years in Collart, remembers it well: a shopping center lies today where once there was the entrance of the mine, a newly built road separates the mine are...
A former teacher decides to move with all his family - his wife and three children - to a small village in the Maira Valley, on the mountains, in order to escape the wrongs of civilization. Philippe and his wife start producing goat cheese and tries to be accepted by the old people of the village, but little by little misunderstandings, envy and conflicts take over and for P...
An actress tells about the film in which she played the part of the protagonist while she cleans the porch of the rehabilitation center. "Are you gonna make a movie?" she asks to the two directors who are filming her. The film tells about the daily life in the drug rehabilitation center Gasparina, moving amongst glasses of methadone, the receipe for potato croquettes, Antone...
Tsurugi, a former piano player and morphine addict, is thirty-seven years old. Since his doctor has informed him that he only has one month left to live, he spends his days on a beach where he had spent his youth with his unforgotten wife, Yoko. On the beach he meets Yuma, Yoko's daughter, whit whom he forms a sort of paternal bond. Together they rescue a man who tries to co...
There is much to be told about the cattle farmers' world, the farms and the lonely hermit farmers. Near Pizzo Formico, in the Seriana valley, there is a mountain pasture. The cows will spend the summer there. Teresa Amara's journey is a bittersweet, poetic and fast, real-surreal film.
In the last days of 1999, Abderrahmane Sissako, a director who comes from Mauritania but live in France, comes back to Sokolo, a small village in Mali, to visit his father. In Sokolo, Sissako changes his clothes, takes a bike and starts biking around. He will run into a girl, Nana. In between them, something impalpable and spiritual is born, while life in village goes on…
"I owe you the truth in painting and I will tell it to you", said Paul Cézanne. The philosopher Gilles Deleuze considered Cézanne Straub's teacher. Fifteen years after the extraordinary Cézanneìs death, the painter is the main subject of the movie in which he lives again through the words of the young poet Joachim Gasquet during a visit at Louvre. Jean-Marie Straub and Daniè...
Marco Belelli, aka Divino Otelma, is a well-known Italian philosopher and television personality. He has 6 degrees and owes his notoriety to his past career as a magician, chansonnier, politician. He is also the founder of the Theurgical Order of Elios and the Church of the Living, a cult with more than 20,000 followers, in which he has the role of a self-proclaimed Go...
Gardeners. Garbage collector. Assembler. Disparate stories meet at a social cooperative. The juxtaposition of events, which are only apparently not related, recreates gradually the complexity of a meeting place which is both physical and existential.
End of the 19th century. Hazel is a beautiful and innocent girl who lives in the countryside with her father, a coffin maker. She loves all the creatures around her, especially her pet fox cub. Hazel is wild, she often run barefoot through the woods when harsh life gets too much for her. After having married a young shepherd who loves her sincerely, Hazel is seduced by a ric...
The menace of the cerebral manipulation of men perpetuated by the governing authorities, who aim at enhancing paranoia and competitiveness. In the 70's and early 80's, Scott B and Beth B were the main promoters of the No Wave movement of the underground punk scene.
Claudio, a vegan runs all by himself a traditional farm without the use of machines and lives his life richly without the gaudery of modern life, following a path of self-enlightening inspired by nature through daily examples. Farming is an hard work, but leaves Claudio's mind free to think about the meaning of his life and to reapproach his real being gaining awareness ...
The camera enters a museum of an European capital. There is only a receptionist sitting at a table, reading, and there are 92 drawings hanging on the walls, of small dimensions and of different materials. While the camera gets closer to the drawings, a voice over starts speaking. He is the person who collected those drawings, so that they can be of use after the death of a m...
Uno straordinario progetto cinematografico del 2012 che unisce 5 registi israeliani e 3 palestinesi in un film di 7 cortometraggi che raccontano in modo diverso l’acqua, ma soprattutto la difficile convivenza dei due popoli. Tra documentario e fiction, dramma e grottesco. Il film ha aperto la Settimana della Critica alla Mostra del Cinema di Venezia 2012. Una giovan...
Carlo Feltrinelli street, southern-east outskirts of Milan. In between Tangenziale Est and an archery field are "Le case bianche", the so-called "White", council houses, built in 1986 and inhabited by 150 families. The are called "White" because white is the color of the asbestos panels of which they are covered. Oscar White, a rapper of Rogoredo, reports with his song "Mila...
