Every night, in the historic and most important milongas in Buenos Aires, in addition to an incredible number of Tango enthusiasts, the most famous Milongueros speak about themselves and explain how the Tango, before being a wonderful music and a sensual dance, it is primarily "a way of life".
Il film è ambientato nella Belfast degli anni '70, nel periodo in cui la città era al centro degli scontri tra Inghilterra e Irlanda. Il protagonista, Terry Hooley, mentre i suoi amici imbracciano le armi per contrastare gli inglesi, apre nella parte della città più tormentata degli scontri tra opposte fazioni, il negozio di dischi Good Vibrat...
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...
Dopo la fine della guerra in Bosnia, Halima, una contadina di un remoto villaggio musulmano, decide di ritrovare i resti di suo marito e di suo figlio, catturati dalle forze paramilitari serbe e giustiziati. Attraverso l'analisi del DNA, il Comitato delle Nazioni Unite per le persone scomparse riesce a identificare i resti del marito in una delle fosse comuni, ma non que...
Resistenza artigiana è la storia di chi resiste e persiste nel proprio lavoro a dispetto della globalizzazione, delle grandi imprese, e della crisi economica che caratterizza la società attuale. Protagonista del documentario è Carmine Cervone, 37 anni, giovane artigiano del quartiere San Lorenzo, nel centro storico di Napoli. Custode dell’ant...
Angelo e Lucia are the last inhabitants of two ghost villages in Valcamonica. In spite of loneliness and all the demolitions, they resist along with their memories. In the historical centres, the abandoned stone houses are demolished, while, next to the ski slope, terraced houses and modern housing clusters host tourists and locals. The story being told concerns the threshol...
The Camonica valley. While at Cedegolo, a village down the valley, an employee of the electricity supplier society carries out his daily duties, high up in the mountains, at the "Arno" lake dam his work-pals, keepers of the dam, wait to be relieved by the next shift coming in by chopper. The time dictating the narration of the film is a time that flows slowly, beaten by dai...
What is the collective imagination within which a legend should be resting so that it may continue to be told? This film is the result of two months research about the traces left by the intangible cultural heritage in the Camonica valley, a mountain area that have attracted the mankind since prehistoric times. The people involved in the film are the film itself, places of a...
Do animals have souls? And machines? A silent mechanical projectionist observes animals and men interacting in old Super 8 footages.
The discovery of some precious footages shot in Calabria in the 60's is the starting point of a journey through the memories, real or imaginary, of a land where magic still exists…
A beautiful song attracts the attention of Duillio in the most important day of his life. As the water flows slowly in a channel, the melody sloshes. It knows no obstacles, it hides no lies.
Marisa, Enrica and Giovanna are three friends. When Enrica and Giovanna start doubting that Marisa has really been married with the "handsome Giorgio", she says she will show them the footage of the marriage. But the footage does not exist…
The castle tells about one year inside Malpensa international airport, a place where burocracy and security controls put the freedom of passengers, animals and goods through the wringer. The airport is a strategic place where all kinds of Italian police are present. Here, the new security controls are tested: a permanent laboratory where experiments on security are carried o...
Joginder family is part of the Indian community that, in the past ten years, has settled down in Casazza, Cavallina valley. Today the economic crisis has affected the companies of the valley, marring the financial security on which Pal, Babli and Jessica Joginder have built their present. Suspended between the imaginary world of the Indian cinema and the dreariness of the da...
The Po valley as a place of the Absurd. Incestuous muddle of architectural stratification and construction failures. Palms, urban emptiness, urban fullness and palm-shaped neon lights. Swimming pools built in five days. Reconstructed neogothic villages. Terraced houses upon terraced houses. Loads of olive trees and decorational abuses. Countless claddings on materials people...
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...
Ageroland is a village in the province of Naples, hidden behind the mounts of the Amalfi coast. Near the main square there is a tobacco shop owned by Sabato Cuomo, acute thinker, dogged smoker, ironic reporter of the daily life and observer of the human soul. The inhabitants of the village go every day to Sabato's shop: some of them buy the newspaper or the cigarettes, some ...
One night, Abed, a young Palestinian, enters illegally West Jerusalem passing through the sewage pipe under the wall dividing the city. He works in a restaurant with Claudia, the main character of the anecdote, half a dream half a story, which he tells to entertain his collegues while they smoke the last cigarette of the evening. A day when the restaurant was closed, he deci...
Rieucros is a small village in the region of Lozere, south of France. According to a Decree Law approved the 12.11.1938, Rieucros turns into a internment camp for foreigners. In the winter 1939-40, women of 25 different nationalities are interned here. They are all considered "suspectes", responsible for the economic, social and political crisis which France is living. Bald...
The film follows Gianluigi Trovesi, one of the greatest Italian jazz musician, in a journey through the musical aesthetics that he contributed to shape. The film accompanies the protagonist from the courtyard, a familiar and protected environment, and from the known and comforting images and sounds of his mother country to new, unknown and stimulating musical territories and...
