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...
In a city in Nothern Italy, a group of friends organizes the first Graziella bicycle World Olympics (Grazielliadi), the famous Italian 60's folding bike. From the dust of the basements and from abandoned parking places, a piece of history re-emerges, a rusty legacy of mothers and grandmothers. Kshan, 11 years old, has repainted and given a new life to his grandma's b...