Gardeners. Garbage collector. Assembler. Disparate stories meet at a social cooperative. The juxtaposition of events, which are only apparently not related, recreates gradually the complexity of a meeting place which is both physical and existential.
End of the 19th century. Hazel is a beautiful and innocent girl who lives in the countryside with her father, a coffin maker. She loves all the creatures around her, especially her pet fox cub. Hazel is wild, she often run barefoot through the woods when harsh life gets too much for her. After having married a young shepherd who loves her sincerely, Hazel is seduced by a ric...
The menace of the cerebral manipulation of men perpetuated by the governing authorities, who aim at enhancing paranoia and competitiveness. In the 70's and early 80's, Scott B and Beth B were the main promoters of the No Wave movement of the underground punk scene.
Claudio, a vegan runs all by himself a traditional farm without the use of machines and lives his life richly without the gaudery of modern life, following a path of self-enlightening inspired by nature through daily examples. Farming is an hard work, but leaves Claudio's mind free to think about the meaning of his life and to reapproach his real being gaining awareness ...
The camera enters a museum of an European capital. There is only a receptionist sitting at a table, reading, and there are 92 drawings hanging on the walls, of small dimensions and of different materials. While the camera gets closer to the drawings, a voice over starts speaking. He is the person who collected those drawings, so that they can be of use after the death of a m...
Uno straordinario progetto cinematografico del 2012 che unisce 5 registi israeliani e 3 palestinesi in un film di 7 cortometraggi che raccontano in modo diverso l’acqua, ma soprattutto la difficile convivenza dei due popoli. Tra documentario e fiction, dramma e grottesco. Il film ha aperto la Settimana della Critica alla Mostra del Cinema di Venezia 2012. Una giovan...
Carlo Feltrinelli street, southern-east outskirts of Milan. In between Tangenziale Est and an archery field are "Le case bianche", the so-called "White", council houses, built in 1986 and inhabited by 150 families. The are called "White" because white is the color of the asbestos panels of which they are covered. Oscar White, a rapper of Rogoredo, reports with his song "Mila...
The movie is based on Georg Büchner's drama and is set in the contemporary Hungary. The disturbed main character, Woyzeck is a railroad guardian and lives in the shack by the railway. Maria, a restless woman, surrenders to the call of senses during a dropout party. Every element of the landscape seems immersed in a time free dimension and it is suspended in the existential s...
Un film documentario che segue il gruppo rock dei Verdena nella loro vita privata e nella preparazione del tour di “Volevo Magia”, disco che segna il loro rientro sulle scene dopo sette anni di silenzio. Un’opera unica per capacità di entrare nell’intimità dei protagonisti, all’interno delle loro famiglie, nel profondo delle vit...
Zak, a young man of Algerian origins, lives in a village in Southern France. When he learns about his father's death in Algeria, he decides to go there with his family. The journey will give him the chance to approach the Arabian culture, the culture of his motherland that he has never experienced. The movie has won the Kodak Prize at Torino Film Festival and the Best Direct...
Voices, aspirations and contradictions of contemporary Iran through the lens of the nearly undocumented world of Zurkhaneh, the ancient Iranian gymnasia where traditional martial arts and music merge. Based on three years of ethnographic research, the film journeys from the Iranian diaspora in Canada, across urban Iran, to the first international Zurkhaneh Olympic tournament...
