Gilbert has been released by a psychiatric hospital, but he is clearly completely mad. He spreads chaos and violence and the only thing he aims to is to reach the ocean. Suzanne falls in love with him and the passion between the two generates even more confusion. Nothing can impede Gilbert to reach the ocean.
Kosovo 2004, five years after the war. Nenad, ten years Christian boy from a Serbian enclave, determined to create a proper community burial for his late grandfather, crosses enemy lines and makes friends among the Muslim majority in deeply divided, war-torn Kosovo.
The film is a mathematical calculation and, to come true, needs the support of the pataphysics. Sixty scenes, shot on Super 8, have been retrieved from the archive of Cinescatti, a project of Laboratorio 80 and Bergamo Film Meeting. The scenes are parts of simple footages about travels, domestic life, public demostrations and there are also some of them which were not meant ...
1972. Gilles and Christine are attractive, sexually active teenagers from unstable homes. When they do some shop-lifting together she is arrested, but he gets away. She escapes from a mental institution and meets him at an abandoned house in the country, where a large group of rebellious teenagers are having a wild, all-night party. As the party is winding down, Gilles and C...
The first film written, produced and directed by the British film making team of Michael Powell and Emeric tells the story of an indestructible friendship between an English and a German officials. This friendship lasts from 1902 to 1943 and survives two world wars and the love for the same woman. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is an optimistic opera which deals with fr...
The film features two men, who emerge from the sea carrying a large wardrobe, which they proceed to carry into a town. Carrying the wardrobe, the two encounter a series of hostile events, including being attacked by a group of youths. Finally, they go back to the beach and then disappear in the sea.
Martino è custode notturno del Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino nella Mole Antonelliana, dove passa il tempo a visionare vecchi film muti ed a fare egli stesso delle riprese con una vecchia cinepresa ad 8 millimetri. Abita in un locale all'interno dell'edificio, che ha arredato imitando un film di Buster Keaton. Una sera Amanda, una ragazza che lavora...
Il dono follows the arid daily life in a village in Calabria which was once densily populate, but today deserted. An impertubable old man and a girl, who is believed to be possesed, seem to be simply waiting to be devoured by the time. The girl offers her body to the assaults of the passing drivers who give her a lift and know no tenderness. The old man finds a mobile phone ...
When a conservative middle-aged professor engages in a minor dalliance with a femme fatale, he is plunged into a nightmarish quicksand of blackmail and murder. Magnificent is the twist at the end of the movie which comes as a total surprise.
Horace Vending, a young man born to a poor family, is raised as their own child by the Burnsides as a reward to have saved their beloved daughter Martha from drowning. Once an adult, Horace asks Martha to marry him even though he knew his friend Vic was in love with her. Horace doesn't love Martha, but he is ready to everything to make his way. Before the marriage, he abando...
In a typical Latin-American cabaret of a poor quartier of Panama, singers, comedians, conjurers and acrobats perform for a public composed by longshoremen, unemployed, workers and poor people. They are "those of the Barrio", the ones living in the quartier where everybody lives like in any other working-class district, dancing, dreaming, loving and working to the b...
Un illusionista omosessuale di mezza età vive la propria esistenza in un sofferto intreccio di sensazioni e di ricordi, legati questi ultimi all’estate del 1936 vissuta da tre adolescenti in un villa di Granata, all’amore di un ragazzo drammaticamente travolto dallo scoppio della guerra civile che doveva lacerare l’intera Spagna.
1623, Denmark. Anne, the young wife of the pastor Absalon Pederssön hides the old Marte, who is accused of witchcraft. When Marte is found, she asks the pastor to defend her, knowing that he had already protected a woman accused of witchcraft, Anne's mother, with the aim of marry her daughter. Marte will be tortured, obliged to confess and sent to the stake. Anne, agitated b...
A young priest in poor health is sent to the parish of Ambricourt, a small provincial village. The priest keeps a daily journal in which he records "the humble and meaningless secrets of a life without misteries". Not welcome by his parishioners because of his ascetic lifestyle and criticized by his colleagues who think that he neglets the real problems of his community, the...
Interviews to different women who are asked to answer two questions: "What do you have in common with your mother? What does your mother have in common with you?" Women who tell about the deepest blood tie, the ancestral and biological bond.
Di madre in figlia racconta una scheggia di storia patria. Il Coro delle Mondine di Novi, un gruppo di venti donne, molte delle quali ottantenni, ancora si esibisce in sagre e feste. Le loro canzoni di protesta, d’amore, di malinconia, sono le stesse che cantavano lavorando in risaia molti decenni fa. GUARDALO SUBITO
Al Roberts, a piano player working in New York, hitchhikes to reach his girlfriend Sue in Los Angeles. Haskell, a rich man, gives him a ride and start telling him about the last hitchhiker he gave a ride to: a girl who scratched his face when he made advances to her. Al takes his turn driving while Haskel falls asleep. When he tries to wake him up, Al realizes that he is dea...
The film tells the confused and complex life of a family of itinerant actors who comes originally from Osaka. The young director, who has abandoned the university for love of the theatre, is secretely in love with his son's wife, but he is tormented by his youngest daughter, still unmarried. During their tournée, they stop in a tiny village where all these relationships will...
During the war, lieutenant Hashimoto and three other accomplices, buried a cache of morphine in an air-raid shelter under a military hospital and they agreed to meet again ten years later to dig out the treasure. On that day, five people show up, but Hashimoto originally had only three accomplices. He hid the morphine late at night, so they did not know each other's identiti...
Hiraoka breaks into Riichi's house, while he is away with his son, and he raped his wife. She decides to commit suicide but not before having seen her son for the last time. When her husband is back, Sadako can't find the courage to tell him what happened. Two days after, while Riichi is visiting his lover and colleague, Hiraoka breaks into his house again and Sadako takes a...
