In a typical Latin-American cabaret of a poor quartier of Panama, singers, comedians, conjurers and acrobats perform for a public composed by longshoremen, unemployed, workers and poor people. They are "those of the Barrio", the ones living in the quartier where everybody lives like in any other working-class district, dancing, dreaming, loving and working to the b...
In the last days of 1999, Abderrahmane Sissako, a director who comes from Mauritania but live in France, comes back to Sokolo, a small village in Mali, to visit his father. In Sokolo, Sissako changes his clothes, takes a bike and starts biking around. He will run into a girl, Nana. In between them, something impalpable and spiritual is born, while life in village goes on…
Skopje, Macedonia. With the economy in recession and wage payments months overdue Vele, a mechanic who work in a train depot, struggles to afford medicine for his ailing father afflicted with a cancer. When he accidentally finds in a wagon a packet of marijuana, clandestinely smuggled and hidden on an incoming train, he steals it to make a cake for his father, to rel...
Nikola is ten years old and two parents who are constantly fighting. His father is a music teacher and sometimes plays music for marriages. His mother, in order to escape the monotony of an housewife's life, has recently started to earn some money working as a personal assistant for lonely old people. In need of help to accomplish all her tasks, she involves her son, who soo...
Soon after the end of the Second World War, in the small orthodox village of Vitanija, the new communist authorities starts the so called "God's uprooting" process. They enter the church, hanging the flag of the Communist Party and overpaint frescoes, but frescos each time miraculously return, so the people start thinking that the Messiah is in the village and he is doing mi...
Il film narra la storia di una giovane coppia che vive nella periferia sud di Londra: la loro vita e la loro relazione sullo sfondo di una realtà sociale in veloce mutamento e di una struttura urbana in costante declino.
1908, Torre del Lago. Doria, the waitress of the musician Puccini is accused by his wife, Elvira, to be his lover. The girl, incapable of bearing the injustice, kills herself. The autopsy will show that she was a virgin. This dramatic story pervaded Giacomo Puccini's life and music. Doria Manfredi's story will be the inspiration for Liù, in Turandot.
On a summer day, a photographer, a young woman and a kid meet in the Emilian countryside crossed by the river Po. Thom, the photographer, walks along the banks of the river Po and the countryside. Anna works as a waiter in the restaurant where she lives with her aunts. A delirious old man goes after them with his rambling speeches, while a motorboat pilot tries to break a sp...
The film presents itself as a glimpse of the last days of the life of Jesus, when among the apostles there was already a hovering feeling of death and fatality. Among them a silent and dark Judas was hatching his scheme, convinced of the essential role which awaited him for the redemption of humankind. The denunciation to the Sanhedrin and the kiss given to Jesus are the fin...
With a single long take the director tells an autobiographical story. In a bar, a young man is shot by a robber. The bullet breaks his femur and missed the artery by 3 mm. That man will start to work on his first film the following day.
