Jesus, with his assistant Mary Magdalene, lands at New York airport the 31st December 1999. Satan is in town too and wanders from bar to bar looking for souls to corrupt. The end of time is close and Jesus is supposed to decide the destiny of human beings. He instead opposes his Father's will, trying to roll over the Apocalypse terms and to get rid of the Book of Revelation ...
In Macas, in the Eastern part of Ecuador, Fundación Chankuap works as an important mediator between the international members of the foundation and the indigenous communities that live in the forests on the border with Perù. The relationships between the inside and the outside of the forest are regulated with a great precision: every intervention must be carefu...
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...
Director Romeo Castellucci, one of the founders of the Raffaello Sanzio society, tells through the visionary short film Brentano, the story of a young man "who has no desire to live anymore and decides to escape". Based on the homonym work of prose by Robert Walser, the film is shot as a sort of second optic skin around the character who remains disconnected by the same plac...
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...
The mental and artistic work of John Kamikaze, a fakir of the Marseilles Circus company directed by Pierrot Bidon. The film is a journey through a land which is spiritually and physically extraneous to the protagonist's eyes. A land suspended between the dream and the reality, which becomes, through its landscapes, a theatre of an inescapable path of knowledge and resear...
Belov is a worker. One night he is assailed in a park by two young men, who get immediately apprehended. Only one of them who can't afford a lawyer is sentenced, while the other gets by with a suspended sentence. Belov, who is upset by this injustice, visits the one who is in prison and ask the permission to take care of him and his re-education. The two are linked by a st...
During a meteor shower, a little girl sets out on a journey in which she faces her fears. The thought of her mother, victim of a banal bike incident will keep her company on the way home. "If in some precise moments, you feel clusters of thoughts flowing through the wrinkles of the soul or of a smile... well, let it be. It is us, knocking. Prepare your shoes and your gloves,...
Realized by Polanski as his final project at the State Film School in Lodz, Poland. The short film, told mostly in flashback, portrays a washroom attendant who reminisces about her former life: her first love, her newborn child and the war.
Calcutta. An old building occupied by eleven families and Dipu, a young man with intellectual ambitions. Aiming at freeing himself from his condition of pariah, he applies for a job as journalist. The director likes him and asks him to write an article about the working-class community he belongs to. Dipu starts looking at the community around him with different eyes, but he...