Rome. Since four years, a never open clinic and a former arts high school are hosting ninety families of different nationalities and social classes. We move through this place observing the dynamics of the main characters who are leading us, through their testimonies, towards the true meaning of home. Home is an instrument which helps us growing and developing our personali...
The incipit of Goethe's Wanders Nachtlied names this film which is the natural sequel of Prisoners of war. Both the movies are made up of archive footages which, thanks to a meticulous two-years-long research, have been found, studied, disassembled and edited. The images speak for themselves, beautiful, yet horrible, anti-rethorical, and specular. They tell us about the land...
A reflection on the human being, on the human condition. The city of Tallinn, capital of Estonia, offers the rare possibility of observing freely, without tricks of the eye nor violence. People welcome the watching eye naturally, they do not feel offended nor do they withdraw, they participate willingly, discreetly. In every place: in bars, on streetcars, along the street. T...
Interviews made by Kieslowski to seventy-nine Polish persons of different ages. The three questions they have to answer are: When were you born? What do you do? What do you desire the most and who is the most important person in your life?
Translating tells about the journey of words from a language to another. The luggage is carried by the translator, who is leading us. During the journey, language becomes a musical instrument and the translator turns into a baker, who bring fresh bread on the table, every day. Every language is a sound, a sound that fascinates and pushes you towards the meaning.
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...
Tutto modo tells the story of Ms Peles Ljubica who was deported by the Croatian Revolutionary Movement with many other Serbian during the Second World War. Ms Ljubica's point of view is told as a modern fairy tale that took place during the tragic anti-semitic deportations.
The movie is made of images found in the czarist archives of the massacre of the Armenians, which took place in 1915, in the Eastern part of Turkey. This is the first mass extermination of the century. In the cities, in the villages, in the monasteries. Fire, smoke, dust, destruction. Atrocities, pain. The survivors can only fled. This is the beginning of the Armenian wander...
An unusual athlete for an unusual challenge: the longest footrace ever run in Europe, a 1000 mile race around the abandoned track of an airport. Sixteen days of running, ten hours a day, short breaks to eat and sleep. All in the search for answers to questions that go beyond the olympic passion: how long can a man run without stopping? Is there a limit to the kind of challen...
Urgon, a jellyfish with an horrible head, snake-like hairs and the power to petrify. Urgon is the ancient name that Greek sailors gave to the tiny island in the Northern Mediterranean which is now known as Gorgonia. Since 1869, the island hosts a prison and its inhabitants are only the prisoners, policemen, one inhabitant and two nuns. The prisoners are involved in many of t...
