Milano, Cinema Beltrade Napoli, Artecinema – Festival Internazionale di Film sull'Arte contemporanea Perugia, Postmodernissimo Bergamo, Auditorium Cinema Lab 80 Fiorenzuola (PC), Cinema Capitol Torino, Museo Nazionale del Cinema Reggio Emilia, Cinema Rosebud Roma, Apollo 11 Lecce, Officine della Fotografia c/o Officine Cantelmo Tre...
During a mission in a night club, Jeff, a professional killer, causes a shooting during which a singer gets accidentally blinded. To cover the expenses for a cornea transplant, Jeff decides to take one last job. One of Woo's best movies, in which Eastern and Western genres merge.
Kikuchi is not a man particularly brilliant or outgoing, but anyway he has deep thoughts. During the day he works in a big launderette, where he mechanically fills and empties the washing machines. In the evenings, he works in a supermarket. He falls in love with a girl who works as a cashier there, but he is too shy to speak to her. When he finds out that his new colleague ...
Shinji e Masaru sono due perdigiorno: girano in bicicletta, fanno scherzi ai professori, ricattano i compagni, passano il tempo bevendo e fumando in un bar. Dopo aver lasciato la scuola i due ragazzi cercano il successo e il riscatto, diventando uno un pugile, l'altro un membro di una gang della Yakuza. Un film di Kitano con molti elementi autobiografici, in cui le vite ...
The unsettling lives of a group of teenagers from California. The film opens with the suicide of Ken Park, who shoots himself in the head with a handgun to avoid becoming a father. Claude fends off physical and emotional abuse from his alcoholic father, who detests him for being insufficiently masculine. Peaches' father, an extremely religious man, catches her and her boyfri...
Il film, originariamente di lungometraggio, fu girato in occasione della Spedizione Geografica italiana al Karakorum, ideata nel 1926 e svoltasi nel maggio-agosto del 1929, sotto la guida di Aimone di Savoia, duca di Spoleto. La spedizione, vent’anni dopo quella dello zio di Aimone, il duca degli Abruzzi, aveva quale obiettivo dichiarato l’esplorazione dell&rsquo...
In occasion of the third centenary of the city of Rochefort, a fair is coming to the town square. The twin sisters Delphine and Solange Garnier won't miss the chance to find the man of their dreams. The twins' mother, Yvonne, owns a café in the center of town, and pines for a fiancé she left impulsively ten years before in order to focus on her work in the café. A well made...
Jimmy is 18 years old and lives in a sleepy town in Sardinia. He doesn't know what to do with his life, but one thing he knows is that he will not work in the oil refinery of his town. He wants to leave. In the attempt to find enough money to leave for Mexico, he will find himself breaking laws and living recklessly. It is then that the doors of the juvenile prison will swi...
In Venice, in a school of Italian for foreigners, the students have to describe the lives of their classmates without asking them any questions, only by observing them. Piet, 22 years old and Dutch, lives in symbiosis with his cell phone; Lucy, a former teacher from England, dances the tango; Catherine, a beautiful American girl, is always smiling. In the morning they talk a...
During a scorching hot summer, a man prepares an erotic animated film. More than once, he gives a conspiratorial look at the camera that is filming him. A story develops, parallel to the story he is telling.
In 1968 Sybilla is eighteen years old. The story takes place in Sofia, Bulgaria, during a time of great political and social fights, rebellion and sexual revolution. Amidst the political upheaval, she is sent to a girls' re-education camp when she is caught using drugs. After a failed affair and an abortion, Sybilla's drug use lands her in a mental clinic where she resists e...
The movie is composed by private footages shot in the Balkans in the 20's, 30's and 40's.
Yoshimoto Ogata, a pornographer, lives with his wife Haru, cursed by the restless spirit of her dead first husband, and her two children. His step-son, Koichi, wants to go to university and her step-daughter, Keiko, is entering adolescence. He lusts after his step-daughter and Koichi keeps provoking him and threatening to abandon the family. Subu fears that these stormy fami...
A writer moves into a ground floor apartment with the hope of finding some peace to write his new book. He will soon find out why the previous tenants abandoned the apartment.
“L’infinita Fabbrica del Duomo” tells the story of the birth and the ongoing maintenance of the Milan Cathedral through the centuries. First act of the tetralogy "Spira Mirabilis" which deals with the concept of immortality through the elements of nature, L’infinita Fabbrica del Duomo represents the element of the earth. Through a poetic...
The famous orchestra conductor Sir Alfred De Carter returns to New York after a long journey. His brother-in-law delivers him a report showing that his wife Daphne has betrayed him with his young secretary. During one of his concerts, Alfred begins planning three different ways of solving the problem - uxoricide, forgiveness, duel - setting each to a different classic...
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...
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...
An ordinary family dinner becomes a fuse sparking a family crisis when four brothers discover something they hadn’t known about their father’s past. We are in contemporary Bucharest but the ghost of the Ceaus?escu dictatorship, which fell not so long ago, leaves traces in every family and brings to light the irreconcilable differences separating the generation wh...
Many neighborhoods in Naples still celebrate the ritual of the bonfires of Saint Anthony in mid January. Kids start collecting firewood after New Year’s, sometimes venturing far from home to look for it. Every group stashes their wood in a different hiding place, “the secret,” so they can protect it from being raided by other neighboring groups. Checco Lecc...
