Marco Belelli, aka Divino Otelma, is a well-known Italian philosopher and...
Pierino Aceti is a man of fixed habits, a film lover, and is currently...
A couple of lovers lives together an entire century of life while objects,...
This documentary film is a portrait of a film critic as seen by a filmmaker....
Dreyer's final film is a Danish drama based on the 1906 play of the same name by Hjalmar Söderberg. Gertrud, unhappily married with a lawyer and politician, meets first her former lover, a famous poet, then starts a relation with a young composer and eventually ends up living alone. Thirty years later, Gertrud looks back at her life. She says that love is the only thing that...
San Miniato al Tedesco, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, November 1594. Monna Gostanza da Libbiano is a sixty year old countrywoman, midwife, spinner and healer. Accused of witchcraft by the bishop of Lucca, she will be arrested.
In the summer of 1968, three friends, Réb, Makay and Nikita decided to leave Hungary. Only Makay obtained his passport, but Reb stole it and took off for the U.S. Seventeen years later, he comes back to Hungary with a teen-age daughter, Marylou, and starts in with his usual underhanded, sly schemes for making money. His idea is to leave his daughter to her mother and take ad...
Paris. Jean Fournier, a young bank employee, is encouraged by his friend Caron to take an interest in gambling. After winning money in a game of roulette, he decides to vacation in Nice, where he falls in love with Jackie Demestre, an inveterate player. They start to gamble together and win lots of money. Jeanne Moreau, with her platinum blond hair, superbly embodies the un...
In 1996, the municipality of Naples approved a project of urban upgrading to reconvert the former industrial site of Bagnoli and create a low-density housing complex offering high environmental quality. The president and the general manager of Bagnoli S.p.A., the company carrying out the project, supervise the works and dialog with the institutions, the mayors and the press,...
Sometimes children like spinning till they collapse because of vertigo. This short movie is about that kind of hypnotic happiness. A bike ride on the shores and the sidewalks of the beach resorts and a declaration of love for all those things that perpetually repeat.
A young Ucrainan woman works full time as house keeper and in-house nurse. Anxiety and melancholia accompany her through her last working day, but hope dies last...
Dong Dong and his younger sister are sent to spend their holidays at their grandparents' house in the countryside. They soon join a group of children and spend their days playing in the fields and in the creek near the railway. Once in a while they get news from the city about their mother who is at the hospital. One day, their dad comes to pick them up. Holidays are over.
Rieucros is a small village in the region of Lozere, south of France. According to a Decree Law approved the 12.11.1938, Rieucros turns into a internment camp for foreigners. In the winter 1939-40, women of 25 different nationalities are interned here. They are all considered "suspectes", responsible for the economic, social and political crisis which France is living. Bald...
The film tells the story of orphan boy Ivan, twelve years old. It is the middle of WWII in Russia. He joins the soviet army and does reconnaissance work for the military. He is able to get through small cracks where adults could not, both because of his small physical size and the fact that no one would suspect a boy of doing such work. During one mission, Ivan disappears. I...
