The government of a small state fears that the rich owner of almost all the capitals of the nation, a widow now, gets married again and brings all her money abroad. So the royal coffers send to Paris, where she lives, a young officer with the mission of winning her heart (and consequently her money). Adaptation of the operetta of the same name by Franz Lehar, the movie is pe...
According to nature's law, the children have to bury the parents. The contrary is unnatural. The main character kills himself at the age of thirteen, apparently with no reason. The movie describes the day after the funeral. Is it the end or a new beginning? Both his parents think that more and more young people abandon the world in this way, as if there was something calling...
Dong Dong and his younger sister are sent to spend their holidays at their grandparents' house in the countryside. They soon join a group of children and spend their days playing in the fields and in the creek near the railway. Once in a while they get news from the city about their mother who is at the hospital. One day, their dad comes to pick them up. Holidays are over.
Luca, almost fifty years old, decides to go back to rugby, an old passion he had when he was younger and he decides to train with the All Reds team. This is only one of the activities proposed by Acrobax, a squat which has been created in the old dog track of Rome. This experience will lead Luca to experience two tragedies: the death of two young men of Acrobax. Antonio died...
Urgon, a jellyfish with an horrible head, snake-like hairs and the power to petrify. Urgon is the ancient name that Greek sailors gave to the tiny island in the Northern Mediterranean which is now known as Gorgonia. Since 1869, the island hosts a prison and its inhabitants are only the prisoners, policemen, one inhabitant and two nuns. The prisoners are involved in many of t...
Johan is thirty-five years old. He is a baker and live in a small village where everybody knows everything about everybody. Johan can't dance, but play domino and can make an egg stand. His friend Paul suggests him to publish a notice on the newspaper to find a pen friend. A foreign woman answers him, starting an exchange of letters in which Johan doesn't reveal his true ide...
The concept of "Couple" in a historical moment which iron out with stereotypes any individuality. The models/messages that gravitate and loom over the limbo of modernity lead the Couple along a path where only the capacity of independent thinking and reaction offers a possibility of choice and a refuse to stupidity.
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...
Bertrand Morane finds all women unique. He is in love with the idea itself of feminity. For him, they are at the same time a source of inspiration and the reason of his death. one day, following a woman, he gets hit by a car while crossing the road. In the hospital, while trying to look at a nurse's legs, falls from the bed disconnecting the pipes for the blood transfusion a...
The movie is made of images found in the czarist archives of the massacre of the Armenians, which took place in 1915, in the Eastern part of Turkey. This is the first mass extermination of the century. In the cities, in the villages, in the monasteries. Fire, smoke, dust, destruction. Atrocities, pain. The survivors can only fled. This is the beginning of the Armenian wander...
Mr MacNamara, director of Coca Cola in the West Berlin, is told by his general director that his daughter Rossella is coming and will stay in Berlin with Mr MacNamara and his wife for a couple of weeks. The girl will end up staying a couple of months, and when her parents come to take her, she disappear, creating troubles for MacNamara. The man finds the girl, but also finds...
Amos Poe, enfant terrible of the American cinema, offers his disrespectful homages to Godard's À bout de souffle. The movie tells the story of Rico, who lives in New York in 1976, but lives in Paris during the Nouvelle Vague period. He is a photographer who believes to be a gangster, an outsider who uses his camera as if it was a gun. Rico is obviously also romantic, he beli...
Dermot Finn loves Pearl. He is about to go to her place to meet her family, but love, as Dermot will soon find out, can turn into a terrible experience, because each of us lives in his/her own world and one's man meat is another man's poison.
Tutto modo tells the story of Ms Peles Ljubica who was deported by the Croatian Revolutionary Movement with many other Serbian during the Second World War. Ms Ljubica's point of view is told as a modern fairy tale that took place during the tragic anti-semitic deportations.
Evelyne works as a stripper in a nightclub, trying to scrape a living for herself and her young son. When a man she loved years earlier suddenly reappears she decides to pretend, for a few days at least, that her life has been more successful. But when Georges ask her to leave for Canada with him and her child, she must make a final choice.
The Camonica valley. While at Cedegolo, a village down the valley, an employee of the electricity supplier society carries out his daily duties, high up in the mountains, at the "Arno" lake dam his work-pals, keepers of the dam, wait to be relieved by the next shift coming in by chopper. The time dictating the narration of the film is a time that flows slowly, beaten by dai...
Géza is married, has two children and works in a garage, but he is unsatisfied and would like to work on his own. He decides to buy a power drill and starts working for private people. He likes his new job, which gives him the chance to meet Eva, the beautiful neighbor.
Translating tells about the journey of words from a language to another. The luggage is carried by the translator, who is leading us. During the journey, language becomes a musical instrument and the translator turns into a baker, who bring fresh bread on the table, every day. Every language is a sound, a sound that fascinates and pushes you towards the meaning.
Two fortyish men who haven't seen each other for two decades bump into each other one grey afternoon in the Place de la Bastille. Joseph has been just fired from the typography where he worked, while Alexandre, who dreamt to become a writer, ended up writing investigative reports as a pen pusher. On top of that, libido is decreasing, and they share the impression that nobody...
In Miskolc, in 1982, a teenager shoots with a rifle to his father, without any reason, apparently. The mother, who just came back for the hospital, will find out what her son did a few days after. The boy is now in prison, where he must stay for thirteen years. His father's dream was to open again a shooting gallery. The film won the Rosa Camuna prize at Bergamo Film Meetin...
