Based completely on a selection of users’ videos on the Periscope app, Roman National entrust to the editing the possible re-construction of the fragmented French identity: what does represent to the eyes of Millenials the Tour Eiffel under the fireworks of the the 14th of July day?
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Sixty common citizens chosen by lot spend the day in a room at Milan Assizes Court waiting to find out who will be chosen to be a juror and decide on the lives and freedom of other human beings.
Idling afternoons, drugs, heartbreaks, psychedelic moods immersed in music. An adrenaline rush with Lisbon as the backdrop of a drifting youth.
Occupation as occupants see it.
5 countries of Warsaw Pact occupied Czechoslovakia in 1968.
50 years later 5 directors from these countries are going to shoot a short film about invasion from the point of view of the people who took part in it.
The media and the politics have integrated with the privacy of Dragoslava’s family, and this she contemplates with humour and firmness. Each and every one of her actions during the day is an act of responsibility through which she begins changing the world.
A heartfelt farewell to the beauty and sensuality of life, youth, friendship, and love.
A film in an identity crisis looking for itself.
A rough and thrilling personal drama on the background of a corrupted society. A drama of taking the wrong choices.
1991. I’m 20. The USSR collapses and i fly away in the first russian RaveParties. My friend Vanya, organizer of those events and leading figure of this movement, disappeared in 1998. Searching for him, i go back to this breathtakingly time using testimonies, archives and memories. Where is Vanya ? Where has this feeling of freedom gone ?
In a remote haitian village a dance exists, with slaves and masters, it’s the whipping zombie ritual. On a inducing trance music played by rara bands men whip and fight till they die and reborn in the infinite cycle.
For the first time, a film about what’s inside, behind, before, beneath and in the pockets of Italian animation legend Bruno Bozzetto
A operator endeavors to help people keep on living and hoping.
Cockroaches, public bathrooms and apartment buildings set the routine for Guido. His job is to detoxify, however he is one of the many intoxicated in the universe he lives in.
Among SUVs, Lamborghinis, private jets and Mad Max-like dune bashing contests, takes place the preparation of a baroque falconry competition. An anthropology of a contemporary desert.
A horse race is approaching: Sukhbat will take part to it for the first time, but before he has to learn to tame a wild horse and riding him, driven by his father experience.
The perfect alternative to surveillance, the brilliant mind behind it and a blatant betrayal – this is the story of how our freedom was sold for money.
Ornella and Teresa, two sisters who, after a lifetime spent looking after each other, in the film live their moment of separation, which is also when the secret of a whole existence is unveiled. The confrontation of two opposed characters, bound by a mutual love filled with too many responsibilities
Maria Fux is a 90 years old Argentinian dancer. In her studio in the heart of Buenos Aires she is still dancing, teaching and conserving the elegance and the energy of a young performer. She accepts all kinds of people in her classes forming integrated groups of dancers. She gives everybody the possibility to develop their own way of expressing themselves and gets out the talent from dancers of all ages and conditions.
The Train to Moscow chronicles the end of an era and the end of a dream through the eyes of Sauro Ravaglia, an amateur film-maker, barber and communist. Sauro and his friends dream of a world of peace, brotherhood, and equality: they dream of the Soviet Union. A once in a lifetime opportunity comes their way when they have the chance of attending the World Festival of Socialist Youth in Moscow. Sauro and his friends arm themselves with an 8mm camera to film their great journey. What happens when they come face to face with their utopian dream?
Extravagantly expensive massaging mats, rejuvenating ampoules and sets of steam pots are only a few of the vast spectrum of objects sold by young salesmen at suspicious commercial presentations for old-age pensioners. Protagonists of the film are five friends fascinated by such presentations. They spend their savings on such products not out of necessity, but in the attempt to fill the emptiness in their lives. The absurdity of these purchases shows their fight against getting old and against their loneliness.
A film by Valentina Zucco Pedicini Sardinia, nowadays. Dal Profondo is entirely shot 500 meters below the sea level in the Nuraxi Figus coal mine. Patrizia, the only Italian female coal miner, will guide us into most impenetrable places of the last coal mine in Italy and into the
A film by Marco Bonfanti Renato Zucchelli is the last travelling shepherd left in a metropolis, and he has a dream: to lead his flock of sheep to the inaccessible city center to meet the children who have never seen him, showing them that dreams and freedom will
A film by Matteo Oleotto Paolo, passes his days dragging himself between drinking sessions in the local bar with his friends, an unsatisfying job and an unsuccessful dream of winning back his ex-wife. One day, he comes across his nephew Zoran, a curious boy of fifteen, born and
