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1912. Giovanni Pascoli has died, and a train leaves from Bologna for his funeral. On board, students, officials, and family, including his sister Maria, called Mariù. It is a journey of national mourning, with people from all social classes paying homage to the poet. In Mariù’s recollections, we learn how Giovanni lived: his father’s assassination, his poverty as a youth, his political activism and fraught ties to Giosuè Carducci.
From the first steps of an emerging singer to the final bow of a celebrated soprano, 'PRIMADONNA OR NOTHING' follows three relentless women who sacrifice everything to be an opera star.
At sixty-five years old, Antonia is the epitome of a dedicated housewife. But beneath her unassuming exterior lies a peculiar obsession: she finds solace in the privacy of bathrooms, the one place where she can claim effortless solitude with a simple "occupied" sign. Within these walls, she embraces her true calling as a writer, escaping the monotony of her everyday life and forging unexpected connections that will ultimately challenge the amiable facade she presents to the world.
The entire project examines three interconnected extractivist processes in that area of southeastern Spain: mining in La Unión, construction in La Manga, and agroindustry in the Mar Menor. This short film was scripted as a spiral, revisiting the same three locations in three rounds. It overlaps archival materials with new recordings, aiming to approach the territory as a stratified archival ground – a form of storytelling conveyed by the land and water themselves. The archival materials are treated as compacted strata, whose grain and texture offer the possibility of excavating the trauma inscribed in the territory.
At the police academy, young recruits start their training willing to serve the population. As trainees and instructors wish to remain anonymous, their faces have been digitally edited. This substitution reveals a hidden truth, a truth about the institution.
When an unknown alien force threatens a high school, the teachers must team up, to fight back against the invaders, in an attempt to stop an otherworldly parasite from escaping, and taking over the world.
Aghilas, a young Algerian, is consumed by a life that offers him nothing in his native country. The prospect of an elsewhere will push him and a group of harraga to accomplish a dangerous crossing.
We can't address the environmental crises of climate change and biodiversity loss if people don't care about nature, and it all starts with stepping outside and looking up. Through the lens of four inspiring women, The Birdwatchers aims to explore and break down some of the barriers preventing people from accessing nature. This film is a love letter to the world of birds, and a rallying cry for people to protect it.
Dancer Héron is forced to defend her place in the ensemble when she has to work with the inexperienced Celeste for a choreography.
At the beginning of autumn, a squirrel prepares its reserves for winter, harvesting acorns, chestnuts and hazelnuts. As he finishes his inventory, he realizes that he is missing one nut. When he finds it, a crow flies at him, triggering a frantic chase through the branches in the forest.
Tristan and Liya, two friends in their 20s, met five years ago on VRChat. In real life, Tristan works part-time at a storage facility with Denis, who's nearing retirement, while Liya is finishing her studies and making hyper-pop music. Both navigate between virtual worlds and everyday life, each finding comfort in their own spaces.
To mark the centennial of professional ballet in Lithuania, Léo Delibes’s masterpiece *Coppélia* is making a grand return to the stage of the National Opera and Ballet Theatre in Vilnius in a production directed by Martynas Rimeikis.
This film is a fifteen-minute long take of a naked 70-year-old body lying in a semi-slumber on a bed. Moi. will be shot in a studio over three days. We will hear the presence and reflections of the film crew and a few inner voices from this sleeping body. The continuous duration of Moi. is a documentary performance. The film is a film in the making.
1967. Nicole is training for a marathon under the watchful eye of her coach. However, the race organizers are not keen on having a woman among the participants.
Six women. Six rooms. Six confrontations with the past. Shot in East London, Second Skin is a devastating meditation on society’s obsession with a woman’s age.
A celebration of Christmas from the stunning, candlelit King's College Chapel, Cambridge. Led by the dean, the Rev Dr Stephen Cherry, the concert begins in the time-honoured way as a solo chorister sings the first verse of Once in Royal David's City. Music includes Philip Ledger’s setting of On Christmas Night, Anton Bruckner’s Ave Maria and The Lamb by John Tavener. The story of the Nativity is read by members of King’s College in the words of the King James Bible and in Christmas poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, UA Fanthorpe and Howard Thurman. Congregational carols include Unto Us Is Born a Son, O Come All Ye Faithful and Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.
Hope Holds Up Her Head And Hopes is an experimental short film that hovers above the make-believe world of hope. The film-maker’s daughter Eden, dressed as Dorothy from The Wizard of OZ takes us on a journey from The Factory to The Silent Valley. Accompanied by a ragtag gaggle of folkloricists and workers in white coats the journey ends in The Toilet of Hope.
When a pompous legal consultant is found dead during a blackout at a secluded holiday home, two detectives must untangle a web of conflicting accounts from five eccentric suspects. As strange flashbacks and buried grudges emerge, nothing is quite what it seems.
When Nathan tries to motivate his friend Marceau to accompany him to the traditional July 14th ball, Marceau refuses. For the first time in years, Nathan and Marceau find themselves alone for the evening, their group of friends having left the country for the city. Marceau is finally persuaded, but they have to hurry, as the ball is a long way off...
In a story of class, culture, and community, can the historic yet controversial sport of greyhound racing find a place in the modern world?
At the end of a season in which he showed great consistency, Spaniard Jorge Martin was crowned MotoGP World Champion for the first time in his career.
Between parties with their gang of super girlfriends, occasional Boy-Gifts and Amazonian explorations, life passes quietly for Laure and Romy ... But one evening....
A dark journey into the mind of noir master James Ellroy. Through an in-depth interview and archive footage, the documentary interweaves Ellroy's personal and artistic narrative with his original vision of the city of Los Angeles, his birthplace, the origin of his traumas and the inexhaustible container of events, crimes and characters that he was able to transform into his countless literary masterpieces. The film retraces an “ideal day” shaped by traumas, events, and infamous crimes in Los Angeles, a city that profoundly shaped his life and inspired his greatest works.
Two men from different generations form an unlikely bond while protecting a runaway circus bear in the French countryside, discovering shared passions for nature and wisdom along the way.
The HSV has achieved promotion to the Bundesliga at its seventh attempt. Hamburg fans are frenetically celebrating the return of coach Merlin Polzin's team. This marks the end of the club's ordeal in the 2. Bundesliga. After being dramatically thwarted at times just moments before reaching their desired goal, the team kept a cool head this time and sent the Hanseatic city into ecstasies with their 6-1 victory at the Volksparkstadion against SSV Ulm. The women's team of Hamburger SV also achieved promotion to the Bundesliga just one day after the men's team – the perfect setting for a boisterous celebration at Hamburg's Rathausmarkt.
He sinks… Little by little. Eloïse. His obsession. Eloïse… Everywhere. All the time. Eloïse. His disturbed mind slips into the limbo. He starts following her. Eloïse. No one else. The one. The only.
A wise old man embarks on his final journey, entering the Colombian jungle to find a place to die. But the paramilitary soldiers who control the area endanger his peaceful transition to the realm of the dead.
Following one of the most famous italian singers: Nino D'Angelo.
A look back at the robbery that targeted Kim Kardashian, during which she was gagged and robbed of $9 million worth of jewelry.
A documentary that follows for a day Jacinto Amador, a nature photographer specialized in landscape and macro photography.
We follow a group of teenage skaters in London over a single summer, charting their journey from childhood to adulthood.
The documentary takes us on an emotional journey that allows us to discover this unique place, where paradise coexists with concerns about the deterioration of its fragile ecosystem.
Northern Portugal. An imposing residence with its garden and magnolia tree. As we know, home is a place that film, this outdoor art, has often used to depict less the joys of family life than a pernicious space. André Gil Mata has made it his stage, with its rooms, its furniture, what plays out there and what has already played out there. From one room to another, from one era to another, the film delves deep into this enclosed space, a kind of suffocating box.
Sara and Mario started dating in high school. But a lot has happened in the seven years since the beginning of their teenage love. They've been trying to break up for a while, but they always end up coming back together: they're too afraid of never finding in other people what they found in each other...
Uzès, South of France. A family home, a burning oasis in a scorched world. Rita and Elio reunite and sink into a gentle torpor. As time slows down, the refuge begins to crumble, the crack widens.
Cristina, an aging vampire, in her struggle against the concept of death.
Portales follows the course of the Guadalete river in Cádiz, Spain: a catalogue of landscapes that hide other landscapes. A collection of inter-dimensional portals (and postcards). Live action and animation fuse, creating an impossible fauna and flora.
Alex struggles to stay afloat in a stifling Madrid when an eviction order unleashes a chain of disturbing events.
Every night, Jérôme runs until he is exhausted on an athletics track, while his mother, who is in hospital, struggles to maintain her dignity in the face of her illness, hoping to die in peace. Torn between love and fear of loneliness, he faces an inner struggle that is as physical as it is emotional.
Amid social unrest, Homa, an Iranian rapper, cannot seem to find her voice. In the grip of her nihilistic rage, a curious being, half-bird, half-human, emerges. What message will this presence unveil in the midst of her agony?
The 45-minute film tells the moving story of Léo Slemett, from his childhood to his rise in the world of skiing. He overcame adversity to pursue his dreams and push his limits. We discover the majestic snow-capped mountains of Chamonix and the incredible challenges Leo faced in his career. We also see how the loss of Estelle and Adèle shaped Léo's life, and how he learned to live with this pain and keep moving forward. This contradiction that high mountains represent for Léo is the central theme of the film.
A woman is found lying down in different circumstances and locations, revealing a dark truth for women in Spain.
A night of passion takes a terrifying turn for Tom when his date starts talking in their sleep.
Tonino De Bernardi and Massimo Bacigalupo met in the second half of the 60s and since then they have always remained friends, the two of them and their families. Massimo appears in several of Tonino's films and Tonino is in some of Massimo's films, an uninterrupted relationship, theirs, which has been a source of comparison and sharing for both.