The film tells about the daily lives of young children in Thiers, France. Patrick, thirteen years old, struggles through his first sentimental fervors, while other kids experience their own small dramas: Grégory falls from the window and gets away unharmed, Sylvie, reprimanded for whining, asks for help from all her neighbours, the brothers Deluca get into trouble trying to...
In Arcadia, you trust no one. The world is under siege, and for Gavin's mum, even breakfast would be a trap. When Gavin says he's going out, his parents suspect the worst. The have no doubts he will become a criminal. Yet Arcadia is not like our world and nobody can imagine what kind of criminal Gavin is, not even Gavin himself.
One night, Abed, a young Palestinian, enters illegally West Jerusalem passing through the sewage pipe under the wall dividing the city. He works in a restaurant with Claudia, the main character of the anecdote, half a dream half a story, which he tells to entertain his collegues while they smoke the last cigarette of the evening. A day when the restaurant was closed, he deci...
Vincent, an honest worker, deals unwittingly a counterfeit 500 francs note. The real guilty parties report him and he ends up in prison. When he comes out, he finds himself alone. His daughter is dead and his wife left him. He is hosted by an old lady, but he ends up killing her and the others guests and then surrenders to the police. Inspired by L. Tolstoj's short story "Th...
Sky, plants. Some children play pretending to shoot the planes landing. A pilot calls home: no answer. Miguel is taking a bath: the day after tomorrow it is his 7th birthday. Miguel has never met his father. The pilot lives in the next-door apartment and he argues often with his wife. Miguel receives some birthday presents, amongst which a kite. His father is released for go...
Young cello student (Audrey Hepburn), daughter of a private detective (Maurice Chevalier), falls in love with one of the persons under surveillance, the American playboy Frank Flannagan (Gary Cooper), who is widely liked by the ladies in Paris. Arianna saves Frank from a jealous husband and gets to know him better. She introduces herself like an experienced woman and she pl...
Mohammed and Abdallah are two young Palestinians from Gaza. Since a few years they have practiced Parkour, a discipline they discovered on YouTube. The passion for this art leads them to create a group of practitioners in the quarter where they live. One day, their biggest dream comes true: leaving the Gaza Strip to go to Italy to meet the Italian practitioners. During this ...
Asier and I grew up in the Basque Country. One day he disappeared and I found out he had joined ETA. How could I explain the reasons that led Asier to make a decision, which even I had trouble grasping?
Loznitsa’s Austerlitz is a documentary study, with almost no audible dialogue of any kind, of the increasingly established tourist phenomenon at the Nazi death camps in Germany. He sets up fixed camera positions at the Dachau and Sachsenhausen camps, which have huge visitor numbers due to being close to big cities (Munich and Berlin respectively) and simply records the...
Discharged from the army as unfit, Antoine Doinel looks for his place in the world dealing with different work and tries to re-establish a relationship with his former girlfriend, Christine, without any success. After a short experience as concierge, he finds a job as private detective and takes a fancy to a woman he has under surveillance. In between shadowing and investiga...
Orville works as a piano teacher and songwriter in a small town. One day, he finds himself obliged to host a famous singer and renowned Don Juan in his house. This might be the chance to make him listen to his songs and become rich, but the risk that he could seduce his wife is too big. To protect her, Orville prepares a set-up: he replaces his unaware wife with the docile w...
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...
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...
A complex picture of the reality of the maximum-security prison in Volterra. The main characters are the long-term prisoners and the guards of the Tuscan jail. Everybody is originally from south Italy. Crimes, trials and verdicts that have changed their stories forever. The film shows the main characters while working on the preparation of a theatrical adaptation of Brecht's...
Ruth Zylberman ha scelto un edificio parigino di cui non sapeva nulla, il 209 di Rue Saint-Maur. Per diversi anni ha indagato con l'obiettivo di ritrovare i vecchi inquilini del palazzo, per poter ricostruire la storia di quella che era stata una piccola comunità ebrea durante l'occupazione nazista. Ha ritrovato gli ex abitanti del 209 nelle periferie di Parig...
There's much excitement in the kitchen for imminent arrival of a gourmand French duke and his personal waiter. Instead of preparing sandwiches at full blast for the usual clients, the fat cook can now exercise her art. But while she is peppering a lobster soufflé, she is distracted by two hands groping around the kitchen.
Sicily, today. The relation between a father and a ten years old son is undermined by the secret life of the man. An unconditioned relationship that must face the truth.
An important visual testimony of the New York new wave/punk scene of the 70s'. The film captures the concerts of the main characters - Tom Verlaine, David Byrne, Blodie - while they lay the foundations of punk rock. Particularly significant is Patti Smith's performance. Wild, tough and revolutionary, like the music she plays.
