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L'Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon

"L'Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon" is, in a subjective camera and in a single sequence shot of about twenty minutes, an exploration of the former Hôtel-Dieu hospital in Lyon. Located on the western edge of the Rhône and near Place Bellecour, the Hôtel-Dieu was rehabilitated and converted in 2018 into a luxury hotel and shopping malls. The film runs through all the inner courtyards of this huge building. The film is dedicated to François Rabelais who, from 1532, was a doctor at the Hôtel-Dieu in Lyon.

L'Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon

NR 2019
La trattativa

What are we talking about when we talk about negotiations? About the state's concessions to the Mafia in exchange for ending the massacres? About who assassinated Falcone and Borsellino? Of the eternal coexistence between the Mafia and politics? Between the mafia and the church? Between the Mafia and law enforcement? Or is there more? A group of actors enacts the most relevant episodes of the affair known as the Mafia-state negotiation, impersonating mobsters, secret service agents, high officials, magistrates, victims and murderers, Freemasons, honest and courageous people, and courageous people up to a point. Thus one of the most intricate events in our history becomes an exciting tale.

La trattativa

7.5 2014
Stalin's Daughter

A shock wave started as Stalin's daughter Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva fled to the West. During her childhood, she remained at the center of power and was her father's favorite child. However, her life was overshadowed by death and violence. Her mother and brother died, family members were murdered, and her partner was exiled by Stalin. The Iron Curtain was an obstacle in her family dream. This documentary shows for the first time interviews with friends and relatives, exclusive photos and documentation, as well as the last and never broadcast interview with Alliloejeva.

Stalin's Daughter

6.5 2015
Lawinen der Erinnerung

The leitmotif for this film portrait is Oliver Storz’s autobiographical novel Die Freibadclique, which tells the story of a group of friends drafted into the army as fifteen-year-olds just before the end of the Second World War. Again and again, Dominik Graf reads passages from this account and, by juxtaposing them with clips from Storz’s films, reveals the echoes of the past they contain. Whether in his more experimental television plays or his Willy Brandt film "Im Schatten der Macht", Storz always provided new perspectives on the war and on Germany itself. Via a series of personal interviews Graf held with the journalist, director and producer shortly before the latter’s death in summer 2011, we are introduced to an analytical, unconventional man who witnessed the course of history. Graf takes up Storz’s reflections in his commentary, throwing light on an unexpected history of German television.

Lawinen der Erinnerung

7.0 2012
Oh, quina joia!

Berenguer wants to be an actor. He fights with all his strength, but it’s not an easy profession for youngsters. His grandfather, an authoritarian patriarch, is against Berenguer's "misguided passion": he only enjoys bringing home young mulato girls. An accident will knock him down. In Los Angeles, Berenguer will search for a secret buried during many years. Will this trip change his fate, his way of understanding the world and the land where he was born, and his own life? It will be a short and powerful emotional journey full of smiles and some tears.

Oh, quina joia!

NR 2016
Redención

Mr. Ferre is interrupted his trip of pleasure by Capri to enter through a dark passage that will take him to a mysterious mansion, where he awaits an enigmatic butler who Pampers fulfilling all his desires. in the place while observing old guests in period paintings, a crackling fire illuminates the room. Mr. Ferre comfortable and aloof reclines on the sofa Louis XIV. Nothing seems to stop time except a hourglass that is shortening the moment it will revive the most distressing moments of his past, where Mr. Ferre was victim and executioner. Butler invoking his childhood will try to rescue the child who was once pure and innocent, so that Mr. Ferre can finally redeem himself and abandon the cruel revenge of guilt.

Redención

NR 2017
Les 3 Boutons

“Miss Jasmine! I have a package for you!” The 14-year-old girl with braces takes a break from milking the goat. Her local postman has delivered a surprise. She opens it up. Out floats a magical magenta ball dress ten times her teenage size. “I am curious,” she says, and enters the folds of the dress. From here, Jasmine⎯headstrong, a dreamer, a realist⎯takes us on a modern anti-fairy tale through caves and stalagmites, streets and shop windows, obsessions and everyday empowerment.

Les 3 Boutons

5.7 2015
Breath of the Gods

A Journey to the Origins of Modern Yoga. Yoga is known to go back to God Shiva, who perfected 8,4 million postures, according to Indian tradition. Far less known is the fact that yoga is at the same time an early 20th century-creation of Indian savant T. Krishnamacharya, which is what this film is about. Krishnamacharya's life and teachings are seen through the eyes of the director on his search for authentic yoga. His journey leads him from students and relatives of Krishnamacharya's such as the legendary teachers Iyengar and Pattabhi Jois to the source of modern yoga: the palace of the Maharaja of Mysore, where Krishnamacharya founded the first ever yoga school. A feature-length documentary including rare historical footage as well as lavish reenactments.

Breath of the Gods

7.0 2012
The Amateur

The memory of Piero Portaluppi, a Milanese architect who reached the peak of his fame during the 20 years of the Fascist regime, comes back to life, both through the rediscovery of his work today and in a previously unpublished film diary in 16 mm, shot and edited throughout his lifetime. A man of great charm and power, Portaluppi lived through a grandiose but tragic era with ironic detachment, as if dancing across things as he created beauty. History marches on implacably, radically transforming the arena in which the eclectic artist and his large family lived and worked.

The Amateur

7.5 2017
Schwiegereltern im Busch

Somewhere in the middle of nowhere - stranded in the South African savanna: After an emergency landing, the von Zangenheims and the Kowalskis are fighting for survival in the wasteland. Two parents, who are both about to separate, actually wanted to celebrate the wedding of their offspring on a farm in South Africa. But instead of feasting in the lap of luxury, they now have to hold their own against snakes, lions and hippos... Will they make it to the festival in time?

Schwiegereltern im Busch

4.0 2019
Highway to Hellas

The life of Jorg Geissner, a German banker, totally transforms with a visit to Paladiki Island, Greece. A business trip to check on a project called “Galapagos in Greece” by the islanders and for which his bank extended a loan and credit, brought him there. Being a German, he wants to investigate thoroughly, but Panos, a mini-mart owner, and the mayor try their utmost to sabotage him—to camouflage a not-so-good reality. After every single trial resulted in nothing because of the islanders’ secret meddling, Jorg’s trip becomes elongated, like The Odyssey’s, forcing him to contemplate the priorities and responsibilities in life again.

Highway to Hellas

5.6 2015