Bosnia, Ramadan 2013. During the doomsday, so the Koran says, the mountains will rise up as a feather. A merciless calamity or an eventual release from the burden of pain? The film gives voice to a daring personal attempt to understand the suffering and the resistence in Bosnia. Mostar and Sarajevo are seen in passing, through the fragmented viewpoints of a confraternity of ...
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".
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...
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...
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...
Stefan è in pellegrinaggio verso il santuario di Lourdes. Hasim e Urika, due piccoli rifugiati ceceni, hanno attraversato il confine russo-polacco illegalmente. Quando capiscono che Stefan sta partendo, si nascondono nella sua auto, nella speranza di arrivare fino in Francia e ricongiugersi al proprio padre. Ciò che accade in questo viaggio tra Stefan e i bambi...
Three granddaughters with the same mechanical voice write a letter to their "dear grandpa". Maybe they are twins, surely they resemble each other like sisters. They confess their miserable and paralyzed lives to the octogenarian despot, asking him the reason for his resentment for Goethe and the reason for his unmentioned and unmentionable love for Stravinsky. The appearance...
Lisbon, 1994, a winter day. A forty years old woman spends the eight hours before the birth of her first child in desperation. Her partner, much younger that her, invents tragic, comic, caothic, crazy stories which correspond to the passing of the hours. The stories alleviate her pain.
A gray day. The ocean is calm. It's 7 a.m. Jon, 18 years old, wakes up and goes to the harbour to meet his friend Patxi. Intimacy and comprehension characterize their friendship. With the help of Patxi, Jon steals a fish case and undersells it. Passing by Maite's house, he realizes that in her bedroom there is Rafa, a vulgar pusher. The girl makes Jon understand that she ca...
Anna Politkovskaja, killed the 7th October 2006 in front of the lift of her house, is the 211th journalist who has been killed in Russia since the end of the USSR. The film tells the story of Anna and Aleksandr, wife and husband, both journalists. He was a TV star in the second half of the 80s' and a symbol of the perestrojka while she was a brave and passionate witness of t...
