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- A troubled fashion designer strikes up a romance with a much younger woman.
- A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France.
- A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands - but she does not say which one.
- Józef visits his dying father at a remote mental institution, where time itself doesn't seem to exist, and the line between dreams and memories becomes indistinguishable.
- Upon finding a book that relates his grandfather's story, an officer ventures through Spain meeting a wide array of characters, most of whom have a story of their own to tell.
- A heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.
- Set in the 1890s on the Hungarian plains, a group of farm workers go on strike in-which they face harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt, oppression, morality and violence.
- The film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury the tormentors they find alive. They are then herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise means to control the situation. A young poet, who cannot quite find himself in this new situation, meets a headstrong young Jewish girl who wants him to run off with her to the West. He cannot cope with her growing demands for affection, and still feels hatred for the Germans and disdain for his fellow men, who quickly revert to petty enmities.
- The documentary recounts Tarkovsky's life and work, letting the director tell the story himself, as he shares with us his memories, his view of art and his reflections on the destiny of the artist and the meaning of human existence.
- An elderly farmer befriends a woman whose family believe is possessed.
- During a police raid on a youth center, the biogeneticist Hoffmann is shot in the head. When he awakes from a coma, he can't remember anyting. The police accuse him of being a terrorist.
- When teenage boy Karol Kremer becomes an eyewitness of a brutal murder, he is not aware of how much influence that event will exert on his future.
- Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's 100-year-long division of Poland under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past. In the end a call to arms is called but turns out to be a hoax.
- A journey to three remote observatories in three different continents (Chile, Canary Islands, South Africa) in search for our place in the cosmos. In nearby villages, astonishing humans share the same vulnerability and longing for life.
- While Puccini is totally engrossed with the composition of his opera La fanciulla del West, sexual intrigue swirls around him.
- The aging, conservative population of a small, sleepy village in the Italian Alps are surprised to see that a former French professor has settled there with his young wife and their three children to produce goat cheese, in order to escape the wrongs of civilization. At first they are suspicious of his unconventional ideas and lifestyle, then are conquered by the enthusiasm, kindness, helpfulness of the young family and start to see in them a possible rebirth of the place. But little by little misunderstandings, envy and conflicts take over.
- A 39 year old transsexual sex worker goes about her daily life inside her home, where she receives her clients.
- A documentary that follows the rock group Verdena in their private life and in the preparation of the tour of "Volevo Magia", an album that marks their return to the scene after seven years of silence. A unique work for its ability to enter the intimacy of the protagonists, within their families, in the depths of the simple lives they lead and the isolated places where they live, but also able to tell their life as a rock band.
- Haitian couple who work on a sugar cane plantation in the Dominican Republic escape the desperate conditions of the 'bateyes' (cane cutters' communities) and make their way back to Haiti.
- Danny Chanoch (74), survivor of several concentration camps, convinces his reluctant children to retrace his steps through the holocaust, eventually spending a night in Auschwitz-Birkenau.
- 'The Never Ending Factory of the Duomo' tells the story of the ongoing construction, preservation and maintenance of the Milan Cathedral over six centuries. The film sheds light on the painstaking labour of caring for a public monument through delicate imagery of the inner workings of the cathedral. The viewer sees several types of work carried out: the quarrying of Candoglia marble earmarked as building material, the management of the cathedral's historical archives, the maintenance of the statuary yard, the reproduction of architectural features, and the preservation of the Madonnina spire atop the cathedral.
- An allegorical film about the subservience of the people of the Caucasus (both Christian and Muslim alike) in general and Armenians in particular by the Soviet State. Mother Russia even makes on appearance in the beginning of the film in the form of a Saint, with all the Caucasian peoples being made to bow down to her.
- The people who live in the Gaza Strip have to deal with extreme situations and significant constraints every day. This film however shows that their lives consist of much more than this and gives us an insight into their day-to-day experiences.
- Milan, august 2009. Four workers climb a 20 meters high gantry crane inside the hangar of the INNSE, the last active factory in Milan. They threaten to throw themselves down to stop the dismantling of the machineries and the closure of the factory they work in. The hangar is surrounded by dozens of policemen and supporters from all over Italy. It is not a simple struggle. They have a clear strategy. They have an organized army. They know perfectly their territory and their enemy. There are clear rules, it is a war with a workable paradigm for all forms of struggle.
- The trial of a woman in San Miniato accused of witchcraft in 1594.
- When Sergio learns that he will soon have a baby brother, his imagination kicks into gear in devious and alarming ways. But when his mother suffers a miscarriage, Sergio's feelings of guilt are all too real.
- A man, inside his kitchen, is preparing his packed lunch. He has decided to visit the Brion Tomb, a monumental funeral complex designed and built by the Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa.
- A documentary tracing the unique story of a choir of twenty Italian women, today many in their eighties.
- Voices, aspirations and contradictions of contemporary Iran in a journey across the nearly undocumented world of Zurkhaneh, the ancient Iranian gymnasia where traditional martial arts and music come together. The film journeys from the Iranian diaspora in Canada, across urban Iran, to the first international Zurkhaneh Olympic tournament in South Korea. Music and martial arts performances are woven into encounters with vivid human experiences as athletes, musicians and experts reveal a variety of subjectivities within the religious, ethical and social world of Zurkhaneh. What emerges is the integration, and also the tension, between the ethical and competitive aspects of Iranian martial arts, between Sufi-inspired mysticism and the modernist fundamentalism of post-revolutionary Iran, between grassroots community engagement and Olympic aspirations.
- In a small city in the north of Italy, a bunch of friends organize the first World Graziella Bicycle Olympics (Grazielliadi), the famous Italian 60's folding bike. From dusty basements and abandoned courtyards, rusty inheritance of grannies and mothers, here comes a pedal's masterpiece rebirth. Kshan, eleven years old, gives new paint and new life to his grandmother's one. Mouad and Aschar pimp their with a big stereo set and a car steering-wheel, as it was one of that convertible in hip-hop videos. Uncle Dennis and the "Scientific Committee" test the four Olympic disciplines between the polishing of a mudguard and a wheels change in their beautiful bike-garage. An ironic video-tribute to bicycle DIY.
- A documentary about the Italian jazz clarinettist Gianluigi Trovesi and the tradition of the country brass bands.
- Jimmy ,stubborn and rebellious, is in search of an easy life. After attempting a robbery , he is arrested. During his detention he meets Claudia, a former inmate, with whom he begins a complicated relationship that means a new beginning for him. However, before he can obtain full social redemption he must overcome many obstacles.
- A middle-aged man is looking at a series of encyclopedic images of the creation of the cosmos, from which humanity is absent, apart from some of its works and their ruins. Lulled to sleep by an advertising spot, he will sink into a nightmare of arctic hunters intent on killing polar bears. In the meantime, two pieces of contemporary music by the composer Agazzi and a text referring to an episode of suicide that actually took place during the director's childhood invite us to "write once, erase twice."
- A couple replace temporarily their TV (that has broken down) with an old set lying in their basement for many years. The screen starts transmitting images of their neighbours. The "malfunction" tells about the difficulty of communication (a word that should be very significant but it has been overused and now has no more sense) and about how objects of daily use tell about people that possess them much better than words and discourses can do. Because objects "possess" us, not vice-versa. But both things and persons break down. So, also the protective interiors of a house could turn into a jail.
- David, wood-mask sculptor, and Adélia, ancient songs connoisseur, are the characters of this movie set in Trás-os-Montes, north-east of Portugal. They testify the neglect condition of this land, where survive traces of a prehistoric ocean.
- This is life in Luis Beltran, a village on Choele Choel Island, Patagonia Argentina. The film tells it through its inhabitants' words, the intermingling of public and private life, and the human search for a lugar en el mundo.
- The story of Abacuc is the story of his gaze and of the place he is living in.
- The films focuses on particular moments in the relationship between co-operants and the native communities as they discuss crucial development issues. And 'development' is a word with as many meanings as are the people talking about it.
- Claudio, a vegan runs all by himself a traditional farm without the use of machines and lives his life richly without the gaudery of modern life, following a path of self-enlightening inspired by nature through daily examples. Farming is an hard work, but leaves Claudio's mind free to think about the meaning of his life and to reapproach his real being gaining awareness of his cultural roots. Being radical Claudio pulls the rug from under our feet and gives us the chance to ask ourselves the crucial question of humanity: "Where are we going?"
- Against the backdrop of Italy in the years of the Fascist dictatorship, a man of wealth but unknown to history scrutinizes the world with his little film camera.
- Silvano lives in Sottomarina. Mario comes back after 40 years