Forced in bed by a sickness, Alexei pounders about his life, mixing past present, reality and imagination. He thinks back to his father who abandoned his mother and this reminds him of his actual situation. The man is living a similar situation: he divorced from his wife Natalija and has a son, Ignat, who refuses to see him. The same actress plays the role of his mother and ...
On the day of his marriage, Julie's husband gets killed for fun by a group of friends. After an attempt of killing herself, Julie decides to take revenge, killing all the five men. Julie reminds of Tarantino's bride of Kill Bill. For both of them, revenge is a dish best served cold.
The Zone is a mysterious region, nobody knows how or when it was formed, the authorities had it evacuated and they keep it under control impeding the entrance to anyone who tries to enter it. The Zone contains a place called "The Room", said to grant the wishes of anyone who steps inside. A writer, who has lost inspiration, and a scientist, who seems self confident about wh...
A journey to three astronomical observatories situated in three remote corners of the planet (Chile, Canary Islands, South Africa) in search for our place in the cosmos. Exploring the night sky with astronomers operating those giant telescopes in order to uncover their personal revelations and to realize that we all share a dot in the cosmic ocean. Nearby the observatories,...
Veronica is thirty-eight years old, she comes from Rumania and she has been sentenced to eight years in prison for trafficking in human beings, but she doesn't lose heart…
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...
n Macao, Mr. Clay, a wealthy old merchant, with the idea of showing that money is more powerful than any other phantasy, wants to make a legendary tale come true. The story tells about a rich old man who offers a sailor some money to impregnate his wife. "I don't like pretense… - Clay says - I like facts. If this tale has never happened, I will make it true". Orson Welles' f...
Rome. Since four years, a never open clinic and a former arts high school are hosting ninety families of different nationalities and social classes. We move through this place observing the dynamics of the main characters who are leading us, through their testimonies, towards the true meaning of home. Home is an instrument which helps us growing and developing our personali...
In the footsteps of a nazi criminal who escaped to Usa and erased his identity, Inspector Wilson suspects of Professor Rankin, the new husband of the daughter of a judge. A series of clues and Rankin's passion for antique clocks, convinced the inspector. Breathtaking is the epilogue in the clocktower.
What does an ordinary day in Gaza look like? Striplife starts nonetheless with an extraordinary event: dozens of manta rays have washed up on Gaza City beach. A miraculous catch that livens up the city where Antar is preparing to record a song, Noor is getting ready for his working day as a Watania TV reporter, teenagers in the Khan Younis camp are limbering up for...
Augustín, medico rabdomante, sua moglie Julia e la figlia Estrella abitano a La Gaviota, una casa nei sobborghi di una città nel Nord della Spagna. Estrella, cresciuta subendo il fascino di Augustín, da adolescente si confronta con la figura paterna e il sospetto che nella sua vita ci sia stata un'altra donna. Man mano che nuovi elementi sul passato ...
Dana Andrews is brutal metropolitan police detective Dixon, who despises all criminals because his father had been one. When the cops pick up two-bit gambler Ken Paine (Craig Stevens) as a murder suspect, Dixon subjects Paine to the third degree -- and accidentally kills him. In disposing of the body, Dixon inadvertently places the blame for the killing on cab driver Jiggs T...
Qin works as an assistant of a manager and her good working position allows her to buy a house. Lon, her boyfriend, is always talking about vague American dreams into which he wishes to involve her. When her company merge with a bigger one, she finds herself without a job. On top of that, her love story with Lon seems to finish, because he is too similar to her father. One o...
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...
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...
Nikola is ten years old and two parents who are constantly fighting. His father is a music teacher and sometimes plays music for marriages. His mother, in order to escape the monotony of an housewife's life, has recently started to earn some money working as a personal assistant for lonely old people. In need of help to accomplish all her tasks, she involves her son, who soo...
Diary of Solange, director. Chronicle of her sentimental life, of her life with her husband, with whom she lives and makes love occasionally, of her relationship with Jim, a bisexual man, who is at times adventurous mate and at other times distant critic. A story of love experiences, two or three per night, hoping to happen to find the perfect lover.
Tasio, born in a farmhouse at the feet of the Urbesca mountains, becomes a charcoal burner at the age of fourteen and meets Paulina during a dancing at their village and she will become his wife. Tasio leads a free life, alternating his job to the activity of poacher, which he will never abandon, not even during the most difficult moments, when he will be abandon by everybody.
Soon after the end of the Second World War, in the small orthodox village of Vitanija, the new communist authorities starts the so called "God's uprooting" process. They enter the church, hanging the flag of the Communist Party and overpaint frescoes, but frescos each time miraculously return, so the people start thinking that the Messiah is in the village and he is doing mi...
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.
