It follows the resistance to modernization in rural Mexico. It is a reminder that it is still possible to live in tune with our essence as human beings. A survey of rural Mexico composed into an extraordinary collage of labor practices and vast landscapes, Gods of Mexico portrays the rich diversity of several communities of Native Peoples and Afro-descendants throughout the...
Oloimugi è il nome di un albero, un tesoro per la comunità Maasai. Il film Oloimugi ritrae un giorno nella vita di un piccolo villaggio tradizionale Maasai nella Laikipia County, in Kenya centrale.
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...
A man moves alone in an empty apartment. Behind the camera there is his daughter, following him in his new life as a widower, started four years ago. In the evening, the man gets ready to go to the cinema, where he will meet Vera, an Ukrainian woman who will become his closest friend. Vera has left in Ukraine her daughter, Halina, who sends her mom photos and videos to share...
The brilliant director Andrey Tarkovsky, whose works are considered masterpieces of world cinema, left us with eight films and an ever growing interest in and desire to understand his work. The documentary recounts Tarkovsky’s life and work, letting the director tell the story himself, as he shares with us his memories, his view of art and his reflections on the destin...
A cinematic journey into the world of Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa and his passion for Japanese culture.
The film is a compilation of footages shot between 1900 and 1920 by the documentary maker Luca Comerio. Sequences of a railway journey through the Alps, scenes from an Italian expedition to the South Pole, scenes of Italian missionaries in Africa and Russian soldiers at the border with Iran and scenes of the daily life in India, Africa, Tangeri, scenes of a big game and imag...
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...
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 ...
Voices, aspirations and contradictions of contemporary Iran through the lens of the nearly undocumented world of Zurkhaneh, the ancient Iranian gymnasia where traditional martial arts and music merge. Based on three years of ethnographic research, the film journeys from the Iranian diaspora in Canada, across urban Iran, to the first international Zurkhaneh Olympic tournament...
