Mohammed and Abdallah are two young Palestinians from Gaza. Since a few years they have practiced Parkour, a discipline they discovered on YouTube. The passion for this art leads them to create a group of practitioners in the quarter where they live. One day, their biggest dream comes true: leaving the Gaza Strip to go to Italy to meet the Italian practitioners. During this ...
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 ...
Claudio, a vegan runs all by himself a traditional farm without the use of machines and lives his life richly without the gaudery of modern life, following a path of self-enlightening inspired by nature through daily examples. Farming is an hard work, but leaves Claudio's mind free to think about the meaning of his life and to reapproach his real being gaining awareness ...
Many neighborhoods in Naples still celebrate the ritual of the bonfires of Saint Anthony in mid January. Kids start collecting firewood after New Year’s, sometimes venturing far from home to look for it. Every group stashes their wood in a different hiding place, “the secret,” so they can protect it from being raided by other neighboring groups. Checco Lecc...
Asier and I grew up in the Basque Country. One day he disappeared and I found out he had joined ETA. How could I explain the reasons that led Asier to make a decision, which even I had trouble grasping?
Four workers climb a 20 metres high gantry crane inside the hangar of the INNSE, the last active factory in Milan. They threaten to throw themselves down to stop the dismantling of the machineries and the closure of the factory they work in. The hangar is surrounded by dozens of policemen and supporters from all over Italy. The four workers spend eight days and eight nights ...
The Danish tournée of Bergamo Teatro Tascabile in Holstebro, where the street theatre festival organized by Odin Teatret of Eugenio Barba takes place. During ten days of frantic and relentless work, Teatro Tascabile puts up 34 theatrical and musical performances in several Danish locations. The film, with its fast and energetic rhythm, tells about the delicate moment the gro...
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...
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".
Resistenza artigiana è la storia di chi resiste e persiste nel proprio lavoro a dispetto della globalizzazione, delle grandi imprese, e della crisi economica che caratterizza la società attuale. Protagonista del documentario è Carmine Cervone, 37 anni, giovane artigiano del quartiere San Lorenzo, nel centro storico di Napoli. Custode dell’ant...
