In the spring of 1896, five years after the mysterious exile, Tiburzi, an highwayman, suddenly reappears in the Maremma area, in Tuscany, Italy, the place where he had been ruling for twenty-five years. But something has changed. Now the house of Savoy reign on those territories, which were once considered wild and dangerous. A manhunt is organized by the local police and th...
Tano, the old barber of the village, promises to his son Tino, who dreams to become a barber like his dad, that the day of his fifteenth birthday he will be allowed to shave his first client. But that day, Tino dies. Tano, who has lost his mind, closes the shop and tries to resuscitate him in a quite curious way…
Three stories of ordinary loneliness. Laura works for a travel agency and has to decide if she should date one of her clients. Massimo, a student of architecture, spends his time looking at a girl in the library. Luca, father and husband, dates young men. They all would like to find happiness and experience the power of love, but their ways and times are wrong and they miss ...
François porta la fidanzata Catherine e un gruppo di amici sull’isola Les Sanguinaires, per passare il capodanno del 2000 lontano dal caos dei festeggiamenti. Ma l’isolamento dal mondo fa degenerare i rapporti all’interno del gruppo e la confusione per la fine del millennio sembrerà poco a confronto con la violenza dell'isola.
Doubts, uncertainty and images of a little girl living in 1977: unions, abortion, demonstration and… Grease!
Tamás, a young coal miner, and Juli, a kindergarten teacher, meet in the summer of 1999. Both too bashful to declare their love to each other, their tender friendship delays to turn into love. On the 31st December, Juli decides to write to Tamás. She will wait for him at 10 that evening at Rocher bar. Tamás reads and reads again the letter, while his team leader is reading t...
Jesus, with his assistant Mary Magdalene, lands at New York airport the 31st December 1999. Satan is in town too and wanders from bar to bar looking for souls to corrupt. The end of time is close and Jesus is supposed to decide the destiny of human beings. He instead opposes his Father's will, trying to roll over the Apocalypse terms and to get rid of the Book of Revelation ...
31st December 1999, outskirts of Madrid. Manuel and his wife, Paloma, who is in the final stages of pregnancy, are invited to dinner at her parents' house. Manuel asks to borrow his friend's truck, but Paloma's father, to underline the shortage of his son in law, insists to pick them up with his big car, but the car is being stolen. That's the beginning of a bizarre new year...
The intarsia panels in the choir of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore were designed by Lorenzo Lotto and realized by Giovan Francesco Capoferri between 1524 and 1537. The enigmatic depictions can be understood with the help of alchemic metaphors. Starting from the "Magnum Chaos", the initial gaping void, the Man tries to reach the Light of the Truth and the Abso...
the night by a huge wall that divides the French speakers from the Flemish speakers.
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...
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…
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...
