In the deserted hills of an Indonesian island, Marlina, a young widow, is attacked and robbed for her cattle. To defend herself, she kills several men of the gang. Seeking justice, she goes on a journey for empowerment and redemption. But the road is long especially when the ghost of her headless victim begins to haunt her. Mouly Surya pioneers a new genre, crea...
World premiere at Venice 2017, Horizons competition. Yoel, a senior Shoah researcher, is in the midst of a widely covered legal battle with powerful forces in Austria, concerning a brutal massacre of Jews that took place toward the end of WWII in the village of Lendsdorf. An influential family of industrialists on whose land the murder took place, is planning to build a r...
Mario Brunello plays an ancient melody over images of cemeteries and memorial chapels from the Great War. Actors recount the other side of Caporetto. A story from Eco di uno sparo by Massimo Zamboni. The massacre at Piazza della Loggia. One hundred years after that military defeat, the present-day Caporetto is demographic. Different stories but the same question: what purpos...
Fourteen-year-old J goes by the pronoun ”They” and lives with their parents in the suburbs of Chicago. J is exploring their gender identity while taking hormone blockers to postpone puberty. After two years of medication and therapy, J has to make a decision whether or not to transition. Over this crucial weekend while their parents are away, J’s ...
Skopje, Macedonia. With the economy in recession and wage payments months overdue Vele, a mechanic who work in a train depot, struggles to afford medicine for his ailing father afflicted with a cancer. When he accidentally finds in a wagon a packet of marijuana, clandestinely smuggled and hidden on an incoming train, he steals it to make a cake for his father, to rel...
Tom, who suffers from an eating disorder and is recovered in a clinic, has gotten her menstrual cycle back. When the doctor tells her it’s a good sign because it means her condition is improving, she panics: the idea of gaining back the kilos she lost scares her to death. It seems like a day to forget but when she meets Neil, a tuba player with socialization problems, ...
Ruth Zylberman ha scelto un edificio parigino di cui non sapeva nulla, il 209 di Rue Saint-Maur. Per diversi anni ha indagato con l'obiettivo di ritrovare i vecchi inquilini del palazzo, per poter ricostruire la storia di quella che era stata una piccola comunità ebrea durante l'occupazione nazista. Ha ritrovato gli ex abitanti del 209 nelle periferie di Parig...
Pierino Aceti is a man of fixed habits, a film lover, and is currently retired after a white-collar life. For one year, for exactly fifty two Thursdays, the director went to visit Mr- Aceti’s at his house from 10.30 to 11.30 am. Every meeting revolved around one question: “what did you do this week?”. The rigorous organisational schedule of Pierino’...
Potlach Milano è allo stesso tempo documentario a regia collettiva, ricerca-azione sugli spazi urbani e sperimentazione visuale sulle “identità” che abitano una città globale. Tra esplorazioni, relazioni e interazioni il gruppo di videoricercatori si è avvicinato a Rebecca, Michele, Nazmul, Essia e Big Mike. Nel film le loro ...
A goods train rolls through the broad, grassy plain that stretches away below the Caucasian mountains. In the driver‘s cabin: Nurlan, the train driver. Day in, day out he steers his train along the route that runs through a cramped suburb of Baku, where the train tracks are built so close to the houses that Nurlan‘s train chugs through what passes for the residen...
The brilliant director Andrey Tarkovsky, whose works are considered masterpieces of world cinema, left us with eight films and an ever growing interest in and desire to understand his work. The documentary recounts Tarkovsky’s life and work, letting the director tell the story himself, as he shares with us his memories, his view of art and his reflections on the destin...
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,...
The finding of an autobiographical manuscript written by Giovanni Pastrone, the most relevant figure of Italian Silent film, prompts a researcher to reopen the historically closed case on the director. After having dominated the early phases of Cinema, Giovanni Pastrone abandons his creature to become a self-taught healer, devoting the rest of his life to Man’s anta...
Bianca is a 39-year-old transsexual woman. She’s been living in Milan since 2009 and works as a prostitute. For twenty years, she has been involved with Natasha, a Japanese trans who is temporarily living in Brazil. Their bond is very strong and distance has not weakened it. The film is about their love story, made up of long phone calls and even longer waits. Becaus...
A year of life in the Alps, from the thaw to the winter, through the eyes, the gestures and the reflections of three characters: Virginie, Valentine and Marcel. Far from the stereotype of the "mountain man", the characters we will follow are an expression of a contemporary, resistant and sometimes innovative way to live and work in the Alpine area. A &quo...
Middle-aged man in his living room is watching the creation of the cosmos through a gallery of encyclopedic images where the human being is never present, except for some of his works, ruins or activities. He falls asleep, lulled by the vision of an advertisement that features a woman, and finds himself in an awful nightmare where he witnesses the hunting of some polar bears...
Johannes “Hans” Liebschner filmed his life from 1963 to 2012. Born in 1927, he came to Italy due to the war and stayed after falling in love with Iole, a young I talian girl from Bergamo, with whom he had five boys. In fifty years of amateur filming, Hans creates the intimate story of a united and happy family, although in 2013, the year of his death, his films e...
Four musicians play Il fuoco by Giovanni Pastrone, a 1915 film that the director signs with the name of Piero Fosco. Four chapters that mark a painter’s passion for a fatal woman, a fire that burns until he is consumed. Four symbolic places of culture in Bergamo and the hope that they will soon be able to reopen. A unique audiovisual experience dedicate...
A man, inside his kitchen, is preparing his packed lunch. He has decided to visit The Brion Tomb, a monumental funeral complex, designed and built by the Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa, commissioned by Onorina Brion Tomasin, to honour the memory of the deceased and beloved relative Giuseppe Brion, founder and owner of the Brionvega company, located in the small cemetery of ...
Silvia Gribaudi is one of the most important Italian performers and choreographers. Her constant research on unusual and “invisible” bodies has led her to work over the last decade with women “over 60” from all over Italy, all without artistic experience, gently accompanying them to cross the boundaries imposed by society. With Rosaria she begins a re...
