Un illusionista omosessuale di mezza età vive la propria esistenza in un sofferto intreccio di sensazioni e di ricordi, legati questi ultimi all’estate del 1936 vissuta da tre adolescenti in un villa di Granata, all’amore di un ragazzo drammaticamente travolto dallo scoppio della guerra civile che doveva lacerare l’intera Spagna.
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...
Horace Vending, a young man born to a poor family, is raised as their own child by the Burnsides as a reward to have saved their beloved daughter Martha from drowning. Once an adult, Horace asks Martha to marry him even though he knew his friend Vic was in love with her. Horace doesn't love Martha, but he is ready to everything to make his way. Before the marriage, he abando...
When a conservative middle-aged professor engages in a minor dalliance with a femme fatale, he is plunged into a nightmarish quicksand of blackmail and murder. Magnificent is the twist at the end of the movie which comes as a total surprise.
Il dono follows the arid daily life in a village in Calabria which was once densily populate, but today deserted. An impertubable old man and a girl, who is believed to be possesed, seem to be simply waiting to be devoured by the time. The girl offers her body to the assaults of the passing drivers who give her a lift and know no tenderness. The old man finds a mobile phone ...
The film features two men, who emerge from the sea carrying a large wardrobe, which they proceed to carry into a town. Carrying the wardrobe, the two encounter a series of hostile events, including being attacked by a group of youths. Finally, they go back to the beach and then disappear in the sea.
The first film written, produced and directed by the British film making team of Michael Powell and Emeric tells the story of an indestructible friendship between an English and a German officials. This friendship lasts from 1902 to 1943 and survives two world wars and the love for the same woman. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is an optimistic opera which deals with fr...
1972. Gilles and Christine are attractive, sexually active teenagers from unstable homes. When they do some shop-lifting together she is arrested, but he gets away. She escapes from a mental institution and meets him at an abandoned house in the country, where a large group of rebellious teenagers are having a wild, all-night party. As the party is winding down, Gilles and C...
The film is a mathematical calculation and, to come true, needs the support of the pataphysics. Sixty scenes, shot on Super 8, have been retrieved from the archive of Cinescatti, a project of Laboratorio 80 and Bergamo Film Meeting. The scenes are parts of simple footages about travels, domestic life, public demostrations and there are also some of them which were not meant ...
Kosovo 2004, five years after the war. Nenad, ten years Christian boy from a Serbian enclave, determined to create a proper community burial for his late grandfather, crosses enemy lines and makes friends among the Muslim majority in deeply divided, war-torn Kosovo.
Gilbert has been released by a psychiatric hospital, but he is clearly completely mad. He spreads chaos and violence and the only thing he aims to is to reach the ocean. Suzanne falls in love with him and the passion between the two generates even more confusion. Nothing can impede Gilbert to reach the ocean.
Gianni, eight years old, lives the whole year in a camping place with his father Nino. The arrival of Condor the magician and his daughter Federica will bring to his life a blow of magic.
Terence Weller can't find a job because he has no experience, but how can he gather experience if he doesn't have a job? After an umpteenth fruitless job interview, he decides to go shopping.
The scientist André Delambre is obssesed by his latest invention, a teleportation device. When he decides to try to teleport himself, disaster strikes. During the teleportation, his atoms get mixed with the ones of a fly that got caught in the chamber with him. Now he has the head and left arm of a fly, and the fly has his miniature head and left arm. André's wife finds hers...
Durante una vacanza in montagna, un padre cerca di entrare nel mondo misterioso del suo bambino autistico. Un mondo di rifiuto. Il padre cerca di rompere l’isolamento del bambino, ma invano, e proprio in misura dei suoi tentativi, quell’isolamento incomincia gradualmente a contagiarlo.
Verona, 1970. Sergio is a nine-year-old only child. Though apparently well adjusted, he is nicknamed "the Lone Ranger" thanks to his solitary habits. His middle-class parents Anna and Paolo are going through a rough patch and unhappily debate whether to terminate Anna's unwanted pregnancy. During a long summer vacation in the country, the imaginative Sergio at first fiercely...
Greenaway's first feature film is a documentary in which ninety-two persons are interviewed. They are all victims of a mysterious occurrence known as The Violent Unknown Event, or V.U.E. It has caused immortality and disability. A guidebook, published every ten years by the V.U.E. Board of Inquiry, illustrates the stories of the ninety-two persons involved in the catastrophe...
A year on an Alpine farm: an older couple have two children, Belli, who wanted to be a teacher, and the younger Franzi, deaf and, although he works like a man, child-like. Belli teaches him to read and count. In his work, he can become frustrated, so when he throws an expensive mower over a cliff in a fit of pique, his father banishes him to the outskirts of the farm, where ...
In Venice, amongst the clothes hung out to dry and a small altar with Jesus's effigy, hides an historical section of "Rifondazione comunista", the Italian Communist Refoundation Party. Gianni, Saverio and Corrado meet there daily since 1973, year in which they founded the local section of the party. Day after day, many things have happened: the Berlin Wall fell, the Soviet U...
The movie tells the story of the greatest discus thrower Helga Rabova and present some reflections about life and the choiches that rarely don't imply a moral sacrifice. The title derives from the story that uncle Nezir tell. It tells about the fenix, the bird that every year gives happiness to the ones who believe in it.
