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...
Polystyrene is the material used to realize mannequins. The film documents the production process of these ambiguous thermo-blown humanoids, conceived from a granular substance and finishing in window exhibits.
Chronicles of the transformations of a piece of Marseille during the urban renovation plan that took place between 2007 and 2009. Some people moved away, some other arrived, some decided to stay or to resist, some decided to demolish, some other to build, some decided to keep living as nothing had happened. The director follows the changes, sometimes unexpected, to be able ...
Going back to the beaches that have left a mark in her life, Agnès Varda invents, with Les plages d'Agnès a sort of "self-documentary collage". Combining parts of her movies, images and reportage, she tells us, with a sincere and playful approach, about the beginnings of her career, first as a photographer for the theatre and then as a movie direc...
A Ring a ring-o' Roses of love stories, waiting times and impossible departures which takes place in a square. The most awarded short-film at Nanni Moretti's Sacher Festival.
The movie follows Danny Chanoch along the most important journey of his life, the one that will bring his children, Sagi and Miri, from Israel to his Holocaust. Born in Lithuania, Danny, was deported to a concentration camp. After having seen his family divided in Stuthoff, from Dachau he was transferred to Auschwitz and then to Mauthausen, where he stayed until the liberati...
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’...
The finding of an autobiographical manuscript written by Giovanni Pastrone, the most relevant figure of Italian Silent film, prompts a researcher to reopen the historically closed case on the director. After having dominated the early phases of Cinema, Giovanni Pastrone abandons his creature to become a self-taught healer, devoting the rest of his life to Man’s anta...
Through the interviews of Revelli, Rigoni Stern and some friends of Carlo, accompanied by the images of the journey to Russia, the archive material from the Soviet Union and the music of Massimo Zamboni (a member of CCCP-Fedeli alla linea and CSI), the documentary tells the story of a son, who progressively comprehends his father's life: a path which goes from a complete lac...
Doubts, uncertainty and images of a little girl living in 1977: unions, abortion, demonstration and… Grease!
