Tel Aviv, August 2006. Three episodes dealing with the different sides of identity: ethnicity, religion, politics and sexual orientation. Four young Israeli lesbians, a group of religious queers from all the world, an Arabic gay who dresses up and acts as drag queen. Background is the war in Lebanon.
San Miniato al Tedesco, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, November 1594. Monna Gostanza da Libbiano is a sixty year old countrywoman, midwife, spinner and healer. Accused of witchcraft by the bishop of Lucca, she will be arrested.
In 1996, the municipality of Naples approved a project of urban upgrading to reconvert the former industrial site of Bagnoli and create a low-density housing complex offering high environmental quality. The president and the general manager of Bagnoli S.p.A., the company carrying out the project, supervise the works and dialog with the institutions, the mayors and the press,...
Sometimes children like spinning till they collapse because of vertigo. This short movie is about that kind of hypnotic happiness. A bike ride on the shores and the sidewalks of the beach resorts and a declaration of love for all those things that perpetually repeat.
A young Ucrainan woman works full time as house keeper and in-house nurse. Anxiety and melancholia accompany her through her last working day, but hope dies last...
Rieucros is a small village in the region of Lozere, south of France. According to a Decree Law approved the 12.11.1938, Rieucros turns into a internment camp for foreigners. In the winter 1939-40, women of 25 different nationalities are interned here. They are all considered "suspectes", responsible for the economic, social and political crisis which France is living. Bald...
The movie is composed by private footages shot in the Balkans in the 20's, 30's and 40's.
In Venice, in a school of Italian for foreigners, the students have to describe the lives of their classmates without asking them any questions, only by observing them. Piet, 22 years old and Dutch, lives in symbiosis with his cell phone; Lucy, a former teacher from England, dances the tango; Catherine, a beautiful American girl, is always smiling. In the morning they talk a...
Jimmy is 18 years old and lives in a sleepy town in Sardinia. He doesn't know what to do with his life, but one thing he knows is that he will not work in the oil refinery of his town. He wants to leave. In the attempt to find enough money to leave for Mexico, he will find himself breaking laws and living recklessly. It is then that the doors of the juvenile prison will swi...
An ironic, anthropological and attentive look at The Sassi di Matera, a picturesque and empty nativity which serves as a perfect backstage for the lives of the people who live there.
