Every year, Gretchen spends one whole day solving as many crosswords as possible. Her aim is to break her own record, even though she knows that nobody will be there to celebrate with her. She uses to spend this day on several lines of the underground, in New York. That's the place where she can give the best. Focused on the crosswords, she doesn't care about the world arou...
The summer has just started and a family run circus travels adrift in the region of the Sertão. They don't have any means of transportation so every time they have to move, they hire a truck to transport all the things which were inside the tent. Their arrival to a new city is announced only by radio, the only mean of communication which is available in such isola...
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 ...
A scorching summer day in a degraded and unreal southern city. Four kids meet a black prostitute and so, a day similar to many others turns into a moment of discovery and growth.
The last exam of the summer session is close and Emanuele fears to fail. As anybody else in that situation, he would like to have a substitute.
Silvano lives in Sottomarina, in the province of Venice. He is 40 years old, has a young, nice wife, a beautiful child and a comfortable house. For a living, he is a car thief. One late summer day, an old friend of his, Mario, who is back to the village after many years...
A reflection on the human being, on the human condition. The city of Tallinn, capital of Estonia, offers the rare possibility of observing freely, without tricks of the eye nor violence. People welcome the watching eye naturally, they do not feel offended nor do they withdraw, they participate willingly, discreetly. In every place: in bars, on streetcars, along the street. T...
Through the interviews of Revelli, Rigoni Stern and some friends of Carlo, accompanied by the images of the journey to Russia, the archive material from the Soviet Union and the music of Massimo Zamboni (a member of CCCP-Fedeli alla linea and CSI), the documentary tells the story of a son, who progressively comprehends his father's life: a path which goes from a complete lac...
Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. was realized during the shootings of the monumental documentary Shoah. In Shoah nobody of the main Jewish characters had given testimony for Sobibor, one of only two successful uprisings at a Nazi extermination camp during the Second World War, a revolt that Lanzman defines " Jewish people's recover of their strength and violence". The rec...
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.
Twenty-year-old Atsushi and his seventeen-year-old girlfriend Mari arrive in Tokyo from the suburbs with plans to marry despite their parent's objections but they are soon pulled into the city's dark underside. Atsushi meets Miki, a fading adult video (AV) actress, and gets introduced by the veteran Yoshiya to the occupation of "scoutman", recruiters who ply the streets tryi...
In 1940, Joseph Mitchell, a New Yorker staff writer, meets Joe Gould, a homeless writer who attended Harvard and cadges contributions to the Joe Gould Fund. Mitchell is fascinated with this Harvard grad and writes a piece about him, bringing Gould some celebrity. Gould tells to Joseph that he is writing a voluminous "Oral History of the World", a record of 20,000 conversatio...
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...
Françoise Barnier works as a cleaning lady in a slaughtery house. With her low pay she can't afford to buy meat for her daughters and all her extra job enquiries are refused. Christmas time is close and without knowing how, she steals some meat for 1500 francs. She can't explain why she did that to the police officers who arrested her. The film follows her journey through th...
Fred Leuchter, a true story. The great documentarist Errol Morris accompanies us through the eccentric story of Mr. Leuchter. Once a sought-after expert in building electric chairs, he turned into a poor sod and was fought by the same system that used him as a fundamental element when, in 1988, he was sought as a witness for the defence of Ernst Zündel on trial in Canada for...
December 1995. France is paralysed by the transportation strikes. Nadia, a young woman, survives on her limited unemployment benefits. She has been a mother for the last six months, raising Christopher all on her own. One day, while watching the news about the rail-road strike at the Austerlitz station, she thinks she sees her child's father and decides to find him. That nig...
After the umpteenth fight with his employer, Esse decides to move to Marseille. He talks about it to his girlfriend, steals her money and leaves. Once in Marseille, he joins a gang who robes luxurious villas and starts training in a gym. When Sylvain asks him to be Toni's brother's whore's guardian, he thinks to be at the beginning of his carrier in the organized crime.
Djamel, a twenty years old French young man of arab heritage, gets fired form his job and moves to Grenoble where he finds a job as a courier. He makes new friends and seduces the secretary of the company where he works. He tries to settle down and starts following and spying the owner of the courier company because he is sure to be his son.
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...
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...
