Loznitsa’s Austerlitz is a documentary study, with almost no audible dialogue of any kind, of the increasingly established tourist phenomenon at the Nazi death camps in Germany. He sets up fixed camera positions at the Dachau and Sachsenhausen camps, which have huge visitor numbers due to being close to big cities (Munich and Berlin respectively) and simply records the...
SYNOPSIS Africa. In the wild expanses, where bushbucks, impalas, zebras, gnus and other creatures graze by the thousands, they are on holiday. German and Austrian hunting tourists drive through the bush, lie in wait, stalk their prey. They shoot, sob with excitement and pose before the animals they have bagged. A vacation movie about killing, a movie about human nature. ...
The prison not only as a place for detention, but for reflection and gaining awareness. Twelve months with the detainees convicted for sex crimes and the intensive treatment team from CIPM, operating the first experiment in Italy to prevent recidivism of sexual violence. A treatment designed to understand, redefine and then change the meaning of our own e...
Through valuable archive material and the real voices of female partisan, this film tells the role of women in the Italian Resistance. According to many, this period marked the birth of feminism in Italy, where the struggle fo liberation is also seen as emancipation and pursuit of freedom and equality. What happened after the celebrations of April 25, 1945? What did women g...
Abraham and Shraga are Orthodox Jewish aging twins who live a secluded existence in their inherited Brooklyn home. Since the death of their parents, they have stopped throwing away anything, hosting stray cats and accumulating all sorts of stuff. Enraged by the situation, the upstairs tenant threatens to stop paying them rent unless they proceed with a radical cleaning of...
In Erik Gandini’s recent documentary The Swedish Theory of Love (2015) there is a character who stands out, the surgeon Erik Erichsen. This film is an intimate portrait of him and his wife Sennait. After serving 30 years in a Swedish hospital Dr Erichsen was fed up with all the bureaucracy and administration. He decided to move someplace where he could make a...
The legendary Oleg Nikolayevitch Karavaychuk is the mysterious and moving subject of this loving film by the director Duque. He was moved by the music the pianist composed for a film by Kira Muratova and is the first foreigner to win the trust of the eccentric and still active 89-year-old Russian. Several biographical facts: Oleg Nikolayevich Karavaychuk (1927) played the pi...
Milano, Cinema Beltrade Napoli, Artecinema – Festival Internazionale di Film sull'Arte contemporanea Perugia, Postmodernissimo Bergamo, Auditorium Cinema Lab 80 Fiorenzuola (PC), Cinema Capitol Torino, Museo Nazionale del Cinema Reggio Emilia, Cinema Rosebud Roma, Apollo 11 Lecce, Officine della Fotografia c/o Officine Cantelmo Tre...
Mario Brunello plays an ancient melody over images of cemeteries and memorial chapels from the Great War. Actors recount the other side of Caporetto. A story from Eco di uno sparo by Massimo Zamboni. The massacre at Piazza della Loggia. One hundred years after that military defeat, the present-day Caporetto is demographic. Different stories but the same question: what purpos...
Pierino Aceti is a man of fixed habits, a film lover, and is currently retired after a white-collar life. For one year, for exactly fifty two Thursdays, the director went to visit Mr- Aceti’s at his house from 10.30 to 11.30 am. Every meeting revolved around one question: “what did you do this week?”. The rigorous organisational schedule of Pierino’...
