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Mr. Duccio engages with a technological challenge that might improve his life. While trying to fix his old TV in his home workshop something magical happens: the screen shows a stylised face as if new life inhabits the unit. Duccio and his robotic creation develop a gentle father-son relationship built on trust, care, love and passion for life. The main ingredients of a typical Italian story.
"ÆFFETTO DOMINO" is a movie about the life and its transformation. It's a story of Lorenzo: sad news about his state of health will change its existence, causing a domino effect on his life and on the lives of people he loves.
Simonetta and George's journey through Italy to understand disability today, traveling from Rome to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, then on to the blue Ligurian Sea and the hills of northern Italy, on a journey through art and encounters with extraordinary people who have turned disability into an opportunity and a stimulus to live life even more intensely.
Bruce and Luigi continue to battle the aliens while The Boss tries to ruin their lives again. Will they save the world from the alien apocalypse?
Graham Vick devises a version of La Bohème set in modern-day Athens, transporting Puccini’s beloved opera from 19th century Paris to 21st century Exarchia. The faces of the four ambitious young artists and their camaraderie are known to all. Their problems, concerns, jokes were run of the mill back then; they remain so even today. Rodolfo’s ill-fated love for Mimi assumes an unexpected tragic dimension given that their tale could be played out in the apartment right next door; right among us.
Memories and anecdotes of the making of "Padre Padrone"
Three-day diary with Giacomo on the Sibillini mountains, in August 2004.
Over 8 years, a small fisherman puts himself, as 'David against Goliath', in the heart of the new reform of the Common Fisheries in Brussels, to try to understand and change the system that took everything from him.
The dashing corsair Simon Boccanegra and Maria, daughter of the nobleman Jacopo Fiesco, have fallen in love and had an illegitimate daughter. The child has disappeared from her foster-home. Boccanegra returns to Genoa to break the news to Maria, and learns of her death as a crowd, led by the plebeian Paolo Albiani, proclaim him Doge of Genoa. Performed at the Teatro di San Carlo, Torino on October 10th, 2017.
Experimental short film about composer Felix Mendelssohn travelling to the Jewish Museum in Berlin.
A visual daydream of a late afternoon swim in the waters of a summer in Sicily.
The dead souls enter into homes at midnight, passing around the laden tables, departing afterwards satiated only by the aroma of the food. If, instead no dish has been prepared the dead leave accompanied by heavy sighing... It is still alive in Sardinia the ancient habit of leaving served on the table, on the night between 1st and 2nd November, a supper for their own dead, consisting of a full meal characterized by sos macarrones de sos mortos (the macaroni of the dead). Filmed in Orune, in central Sardinia, this documentary - with an observational approach - describes the preparation of the banquet and some connected rituals.
"My name is Pier Felice Filippi. It was 1978, I was 23. I was kidnapped and kept by the Mafia for ransom. I was locked and tied up with an iron chain. I escaped. I wanted to make sure my kidnappers were arrested. And I did it'.
From the Rai Arturo Toscanini Auditorium in Turin, the Rai National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, with Andrea Lucchesini as piano soloist, performs works by Gesualdo da Venosa: *Six Madrigals* (orchestrated by Stanisław Skrowaczewski).
Irmela had one and only goal over the past 30 years: to erase each and every single trace of hate around her.
In 2000, group of Romani people of Kosovan origins settled at the foot of Mount Etna. This film depicts a dance dedicated to a bride, a young woman who prepare herself to become wife and mother, the center of a culture. A film as an 'objet trouvé', a show without a show, full of details and life.
For centuries, every year on September 8 myriad swarms of winged ants have been arriving on the Mount of Ants. Similar to clouds obfuscating the sky, these small insects mate in a wonderful flight followed by the death of all the males, which fall exhausted onto the yard of the church rising on the mountain top, once called "Santa Maria Formicarum". The mating flight blazes out like an ecstatic apparition before the eyes of the curious, of tourists and the faithful, who arrive here every year to admire and to celebrate this feast dedicated to the "Virgin of the Mount of Ants". This singular event is the starting point for reflection within the film, which asks questions about the small insects’ nature and that of human beings. Great writers like Nobel Prize-winner Maurice Maeterlinck and entomologist Carlo Emery have studied them a lot: their words echo out again, nowadays, in the voices of witnesses in the film.
Coming back to Rome a girl remembers her Sicilian holidays, her first great love and her confrontation with the tragic death of her friends in a terrorist attack.
A portrait/self-portrait of Gillo Dorfles as seen through his favourite objects: in an intimate, gentle narrative, hanging inside a home, his home – a space both real and symbolic, mental and physical. GilloDorfles talks about the things he holds most dear, a mix of historical and artistic culture and everyday objects, family mementoes and original sculptures, memories and insights. It is an attempt to give shape, image and sound to the monumental intangibility of Gillo Dorfles’ thoughts, memories and desires.
A short film by Filippo Ticozzi.
The documentary follows three couples of parents or aspiring parents grappling with the extremely difficult adoption process.
Matilde is a woman who has already inherent insanity because she can't seem to find meaning in her husband's family anymore, since he doesn't respect her. All of this and the malicious insinuations, being subjected to the violent acts of her father in law, are getting her to fall into a state of great distress and instability.
Walter, a successful 50-year-old psychologist, decides to mend his relationship with his daughter Ginevra by forcing her to spend a week with him in an isolated house in the woods. But a dangerous entity lurks nearby.
An animated short narrating the origins of the "Palio dei Bracieri"
In a desert and hostile paradise, between mountains of sand and solitary camels in perpetual journey, life is renewed with a promise of love in the shade of a lone tree. Adam and Eve have a chance. The last chance to heal and create a new progeny of more decent human beings.
A piece based on Mangini's photographs of a journey that would change her life: the one she took at the age of 25 to the pumice mines of Lipari, a lunar landscape displaying extreme working conditions that she portrayed in 46 images both beautiful and devastating.
Lost in the white, among the snowy mountains, a lone snowboarder seeks his perfect downhill... After a violent fall, he faints in the snow... Far away from civilization and surrounded only by nature, once he wakes up his nightmare begins.
One promise is one promise.
A little girl is being held by a very mysterious kidnapper. The only way to escape from his clutches is to ask for help.
Among the ravines and flood plains of the Senio river, in the lower part of the province of Romagna, the small town of Cotignola prepares to construct a large arena made out of bales of hay; it will host readings, performances and concerts. It turns into a big party but two trivial accidents, under similar circumstances, cause the death of two of the organizers. The victims encounter each other in a parallel dimension, where the boundary with the real world becomes increasingly insubstantial.
It started as just another warm night, back in June 2017 at the Waldbühne, Berlin. But when Ludovico Einaudi started to play, it became a Midsummer Night’s dream for everyone there. An unforgettable concert, in which he performed music from his album “Elements” as well as further repertoire, Nuvole Bianche, Una Mattina, Night and many more.
Cars affect our primary senses on all levels, they define our world and change our contemporary society. Our tastes have changed: drive-in food, that was once at most a monthly family treat has now become an essential daily ritual in our fast-paced, consumer society. We barely notice the smell of exhaust fumes but more and more people are getting sick from atmospheric pollution. Our cities are now designed in function of cars, changing what we see and our perception of the world we live in. The film seeks to question the car myth, something that is deeply rooted in our consumer society. A group of primary school's kids guide the spectators in a journey into our imaginary. Using automotive archives and through the involvement in a dynamic way of scientists, engineers, anthropologist and racing drivers, the film explores how the car has changed not only the cities we live in but also our lives.
Five characters that do not know each other stand in a large blue room, a non-place where a large "99" is highlighted on the wall. The five are invited one by one by the mysterious landlord to cross a curtain, behind which they will meet their terrible destiny.
This documentary is designed to present the lives and activities of Heinrich Himmler (head of the SS - the super police created by Hitler as the main tool of oppression - until 1928) and Adolf Eichmann (head of the Department of Jewish Affairs of the Gestapo from 1941 to 1945 and head of operations in the deportation of 3 million Jews to extermination camps.
A boy and girl, a hot July day, a railway station, an encounter.
Short film by Ignazio Fabio Mazzola.
A poor boy and his father wish to eat parmesan with their spaghetti but as the parmesan runs dry, so do their morals...
The story of a classic rebetiko night in the port of Piraeus.
This documentary follows the daily life of a family of artisans who work with soapstone, or steatite, in the mountains of Valtellina, Italy.
An interview of Umberto Lenzi discussing the making of his film Almost Human.
A film made for LIVE, a workshop held by Bianco-Valente. Curated by Giusy Caroppo as a part of the InContemporanea exhibition.
