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...
Asier and I grew up in the Basque Country. One day he disappeared and I found out he had joined ETA. How could I explain the reasons that led Asier to make a decision, which even I had trouble grasping?
Abacuc is a man of nearly 200 kilos who spends his days in a sort of indifferent immobility, in the absence of any kind of emotion. He hangs out at graveyards, thematic "Italy in miniature" parks or near utopic architectures. He lives in a railroad inspector's house and he never speaks. The only voice we hear is a feminine voice-over. Abacuc, pulled out from hi...
Three granddaughters with the same mechanical voice write a letter to their "dear grandpa". Maybe they are twins, surely they resemble each other like sisters. They confess their miserable and paralyzed lives to the octogenarian despot, asking him the reason for his resentment for Goethe and the reason for his unmentioned and unmentionable love for Stravinsky. The appearance...
AL CINEMA Film personale molto forte, girato in soggettiva dal regista, che si confronta con il fratello più giovane, tossico dipendente, durante un viaggio in treno verso Auschwitz, pretesto per raccontare le difficili relazioni fra i due, con l'obiettivo di ritrovare una relazione perduta. Il regista: «Mio fratello è un grande appassionato di sto...
Over the course of a midsummer night in Fermanagh in 1890, an unsettled daughter of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy encourages her father's valet to seduce her. The famous play by August Strindberg adapted for the screen and stage in multiple countries and languages, gets an Anglophone interpretation from the legendary Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann.
A heavily neurotic young man starts to see his father's ghost, and while he helps the spirit cross to the otherworld, something happens that they could never achieve in their common life: they finally understand each other.
Good Time for a Change è un film etnografico che racconta l’esperienza di Danilo, un giovane italiano che sta pensando di emigrare in Canada. Il film illustra dall’interno tutte le fasi dell’esperienza migrante e il suo incontro con la realtà canadese, dalla metropoli di Toronto fino alle foreste incontaminate del Nord dell’Ontario. All&...
A young Kurdish man is torn between his mother's nostalgic search of a song in her dreams and an uncertain future with his pregnant girlfriend.
DAL 5 MAGGIO AL CINEMA Angelo e Kasia si incontrano e innamorano in Italia, entrambi fanno parte del movimento cattolico dei Focolarini. Quando lei decide di tornare in Polonia per entrare in convento, lui decide di seguirla nella speranza che cambi idea. Nel frattempo, a Varsavia, trova lavoro in una multinazionale, dove la sua superiore Krystyna, una donna disinibita e ...
A gunshot echoes from 1944, leading post-punk musician Massimo Zamboni to uncover his family’s past. Private memories collide with collective history as a new musical project is born. The Enemy – A Partisan Hymnbook is a music documentary about the memory of the Italian WWII Resistance. SYNOPSIS Fifteen years after the break-up of the historic Italian post-...
New York. The night between the 27th and 28th June, 1969, is not a night like all the others. At the Stonewall Inn, a bar in Greenwich Village, took place the first uprisings that will lead to the creation of the Gay Liberation Front in the United States. The new political procedure regarding the claiming of rights by homosexual takes the distances from the previous moviment...
Oloimugi è il nome di un albero, un tesoro per la comunità Maasai. Il film Oloimugi ritrae un giorno nella vita di un piccolo villaggio tradizionale Maasai nella Laikipia County, in Kenya centrale.
This documentary film follows the process of creating one of Velasco Vitali's famous dog sculptures, from wax to glazed bronze, at Fonderia Artistica Battaglia (Battaglia Artistic Foundry), in Milan. The film observes the work of a group of skilled artisans in this 100-year old foundry and reveals the ancient traditions of bronze sculpture making, un...
Andrea da bambino aveva un eroe: “il Rino”. Rino è stato il mentore di Andrea. Partigiano, comunista: diverso da tutti. Da anni Andrea pensava a un film su Rino partigiano. Ma oggi Rino non può più raccontare: ha il morbo di Alzheimer. Andrea comincia a rivedere le decine di cassette con registrate le storie dell...
The Second Closet nasce e si sviluppa all’interno del progetto Bleeding Love, finanziato dal programma europeo Daphne. Il progetto nasce con lo scopo di sensibilizzare le comunità europee e internazionali riguardo al tema della violenza domestica e della violenza di coppia, soprattutto riferita alla minoranza femminile, alle donne bisessuali, lesbiche e a...
“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...
Sicily, today. The relation between a father and a ten years old son is undermined by the secret life of the man. An unconditioned relationship that must face the truth.
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.
Internationally Sweden is seen as a perfect society, a role model and a symbol of the highest achievements of human progress. The Swedish Theory of Love digs into the true nature of Swedish life style, explores the existential black holes of a society that has created the most autonomous people in the world.
