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Promise and Ian are now 11 years old. Steve soo will announce to the group that three years after stopping, some of theme will be chosen for the European tour for their "Cirque du Soleil" style show, performing in many countries. Promise and Ian start to train even harder. Will they be selected?
Young Camilla questions her artistic talent and skill in a lonely afternoon after school.
An enigmatic woman approaches a man in a cafè, but their encounter conceals a different truth.
In 1981 Professor Namkhai Norbu, returning to Lhasa after more than 20 years, made the first photographs of what were then considered the most secret images of Tibet, the 18th-century murals of the Lukhang, a small temple located behind the Potala Palace which contains what has become known as the Sistine Chapel of Tibetan Buddhism. An esoteric wunderkammer, the images of the Lukhang present a panorama of Tibetan culture in the 1700s and an authentic visual guide to enlightenment. The exhibition brings together a selection from the over 100 photographs made by Prof. Namkhai, luminous reflections, that Rinpoche captured, fleeting moments that represent all that remains of some of the murals of the Lukhang, treasures now lost.
Fifteen years after the premature separation from her mother by the hand of the inquisition, Agnes, the young Captain of the Pandora, is seeking for the legendary treasure of Cariddi's Graveyard with her wacky crew. This search will collide with the plans of the evil Duke of Monreale and the ones of the sly infamous pirate known as 'The Red Hook'.
The short film is about a boy and the long-awaited night of a famous DJ. The consumption of 2CB will take him to the peak of the trip, and what we will experience will be his - far from lucid - point of view
Between 1957 and 1996, thousands of families from southern Italy who emigrated to Germany had to leave their children at the A. De Gasperi Institute on Monte Bondone. This is the story of the boys and girls who spent their childhood in this Border Institute.
Italy’s oldest Carnival, memories, footages, a very powerful imagery rooted over the centuries in one city: Fano. A tradition, that of papier-mâché, and its float masters who, generation after generation, have been able to blend creativity, engineering and manual skills to build those traveling stages called floats. A character, named Vulón, encountering a child. He doesn’t know anything about the Carnival of Fano. No one better than a Carnival mask to walk him around through parades, costumes and sweets and to tell him that after all, Carnival is more than a simple celebration: it’s a feeling, a state of mind that warms the heart of a city and of the territory around. And while the carnival week is getting to an end, somebody is up and ready for a new beginning…
It is a short film created to teach constitutional values in an Italian middle school / 1st grade (11-14 years old). Singing the articles of the Constitution is a political, artistic and highly cultural action, which gives a poetic aspect to a legal text par excellence.
A woman is forced to confront her elderly husband’s physical deterioration when they meet to sign their divorce papers.
The story of Lorenzo...
A strange dive into the night. Sami is returning home after six months in Italy. Between nightmares and dreams, he leaves behind an abandoned construction work, visions of ghosts and a mysterious sunset over the Mediterranean Sea.
Portraying the epic allure around espresso, from its ritual entrenched in Italian culture and in convivial experiences, to its rise as a global phenomenon, this explores the expansion and evolution of the coffee market through a collection of personal stories.
A couple in their seventies, Jeanne and Louis, discover the unexpected effect of a footbath taken in the middle of the day on their balcony. Jeanne, with her fragile memory, recalls a distant and comical memory of a dog biting her husband’s left buttock. He doesn’t hesitate to replay the scene in order to prolong this unexpected moment of complicity as long as possible.
Water flows, water goes down, a principle that has allowed the Cavour canal to flood the rice fields between Novara, Vercelli and Pavia for more than 150 years. Here, where more than 40% of European rice is produced, the man-made landscape bears witness to a delicate balance. In a flow of images, the distribution of water allows us to delve into the complex irrigation network together with its workers.
Set in Calvi dell'Umbria, Italy , the film recounts the massacre of 16 villagers by retreating Nazi troops. The memory resurfaces in the words of a grandmother to her granddaughter, in a tale that interweaves two generations and gives voice to one of the many Nazi-Fascist atrocities, too long forgotten.
Traveling through 15th century Italy, a young courtier faces the mystery of a girl with stigmata.
A man in a long door-studded hallway: a metaphorical place inside his mind. It's time for him to come to terms with a past that has been buried for years and will now resurface with the tinkling of keys.
Not the same old ghost story, the main character Isabella (Isabella Viggiano) is going to show you something far different from what you may expect.
PROOF OF LOVE is a short film: Gigi prepares breakfast in the morning.
Andrea Nastri is a successful entrepreneur who founded a company that deals with a very particular market: making people relive lived experiences through sophisticated projection technology. Andrea lost his father as a child, so this technology represents a way for him to be able to relive him. This process being very invasive is also much criticized by the press and newspapers. Pushed by the desire to make his father's hologram more real, Andrea will push himself beyond all limits, abusing the technology and immersing himself in a world where the line between real and projection is blurred. Only by accepting the truth will Andrea be able to rid himself of his fears.
Lucy from Palermo is studying music in England and is very pregnant. Her mother and teenage sister visit to be with her for the birth of baby Futura. Afterward the three of them return to Sicily, where Kitim, the father of Futura, also lives.
At the end of the nineteenth century in many countries the land was subjugated to the landed estates of the patriciate. The laborers lived in poverty on the edge of survival. Despite the first attempts by some citizen movements of intellectuals and politicians to create a class consciousness among the peasants that could assert their rights against the barony, the feudal violence of the lords of the land prevented any social demands. Brigandage was born from this environment of hunger and oppression, an expression of struggle and revenge against the masters. If the discontent of the laborers had combined with the anger of the brigands, the revolt could have spread like fire in a barn. But often the victim who manages to gain power then embodies it again as the enemy he had overthrown shortly before. And, in the jungle where the strongest wins until he meets someone stronger than him, the people always lose out in the end.
A grumpy old man observe outside of his window, but what its hiding in to the woods?
In a small town in southern Italy, a mother's vow saves her daughter from certain death. For this grace received, the child will be forced to wear the dress of the Saint who made her awaken.
The term devagan refers to a group of Newar men who embody goddess Durgā in the 500-year-old Nava Durgā ritual in Bhaktapur, Nepal. Through the stories of three devagans within a single family, the film explores the transmission of myth, ritual knowledge, and devotion across generations. In addition to the ritual performance, the film also focuses on the devagans’ daily lives, revealing their hard work backstage and the challenges they face.
A happy New Year's Eve, the capitone, the little girl who is a little curious about it and a little scared, the fireworks in the sky of Naples, the kisses of the new year. Suddenly, however, that same house appears different, it is empty and silent, while the director's hands seem to search for traces of something that has perhaps already become a memory. Via Campegna 58 was the author's parents' home, where she grew up, was a daughter and then a mother. Upon his father's death he must empty it, and in lingering in every corner, as if to thoroughly scrutinize the smallest details, it is as if he wanted to take that past life with him, enclosed in the objects, in the useless things that every house accumulates, among the pens , the paintings, the clothes hanging neatly in the wardrobes, the black and white photographs of the young, beautiful, happy parents.
Un chihuahua nervoso di nome Picasso viene infastidito. Meglio lasciarlo stare. A nervous chihuahua named Picasso gets annoyed. Better not to bother him.
No sugarcoatin' it, you've got brain damage from multiple sclerosis. Your memories are fading so gather everything left in that noggin, like paper and ink and photos and love of course. Start with the foundation and don't give up. Soon you'll have a palace.
Leonardo is an introvert and a loner; his only obsession, his Phantom F12 scooter. New to the city, he meets Dylan, a charming boy with the same passion for tuning, who seems to truly appreciate him and slowly draws him out of his shell. He embodies everything Leonardo desires for himself: confidence and charisma. After an afternoon with Dylan’s friends, the “associates”, filled with alcohol and techno music, Leonardo finds himself overwhelmed by a sudden turn of events. The spiral of violence and humiliation he ends up in on that winter day will mark his growth and worldview forever.
On a winter night like any other, among the streets of a small provincial town, a group of boys consumes the hours of darkness between the euphoria of alcohol and the torpor of heroin. Among them is Giammaria, born into a loving family but raised in the violence of a daily life on the margins, wild and dark. During the night, an unanswered call from an unknown number leads the protagonist down a twisted and fragmented path.
Giacomo Fanelli is a loan shark who suffered rejection of a kidney transplant he had. Because his doctor doesn’t approve a second transplant, he decides to send money to Giulia and Emma, two girls who want to get married, to solve the problem.
Three cyborg couples enter a newly opened building: the Human Museum. They are confronted with exhibits of humanity: statues of intertwined bodies, anatomical informations, and educational films, reacting emotionally with astonishment, disgust, fear, and curiosity toward the objects in the exhibit. In an inevitable process of machine learning, the six protagonists change during their visit, learning to simulate the rules of arousal and attraction. The pairs are not just the juxtaposition of two cyborgs. Can the machines ever feel what their bodies skillfully mimic: desire?
Shot by Alberto Grifi at the Parco Lambro Juvenile Proletariat Festival between 26 and 29 June 1976. Grifi, together with Franco Berbero and a young Claudio Caligari, filmed 25 hours on video and 3 hours on film which never made it to the final cut of a report for which he had been called by the organizers, the editorial staff of the magazine 'Re Nudo'.
Sergio, unlike his wife Martina, does not want to enroll his daughter Giulia in ice skating. He only opens up to his skating friend Enrico, who tries to make him understand that everyone has the right to live their own life by pursuing their dreams. Sergio’s phone call to the former skater will change everything and convince him to enroll his daughter in ice skating.
An explosive love story is an animated short film about two hunters who fall in love. Despite their passion, they cannot bring themselves to accept their feelings.