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- The legendary Italian stage diva Eleonora Duse, through the latter part of her life and her legendary career is now long over,
- This candid New York love story explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of famed boxing painter Ushio Shinohara and his wife, Noriko. Anxious to shed her role as her overbearing husband's assistant, Noriko finds an identity of her own.
- Marco (broke photographer), Sofia (graduated in ancient literature) and Lidia (waitress and delivery rider) discover that their home town is being held in check by a shadowy organization thus trying to shed light on the matter.
- Jeremy Irons sets out to discover the extent and effects of the global waste problem, as he travels around the world to beautiful destinations tainted by pollution. This is a meticulous, brave investigative journey that takes Irons (and us) from skepticism to sorrow and from horror to hope.
- Kamal has fled Iraq to try to enter "Fortress Europe". At the Turkish-Bulgarian border, local mercenaries are ruthlessly hunting down migrants. Alone in the forest, Kamal has three days to escape.
- Renowned British journalist examines Italy's moral, political and economic crisis, looking for clues to its possible salvation--and that of the West as a whole.
- Two immigrants living on the fringes of American society hit the road in search of the truth about a shared UFO abduction.
- In 1971, a group of friends sail into a nuclear test zone, and their protest captures the world's imagination. Using never before seen archive that brings their extraordinary world to life, How To Change The World is the story of the pioneers who founded Greenpeace and defined the modern green movement.
- A luthier is obsessed with the idea of crafting a violin, the sound of which is so exceptional that it will thrill the musician who plays it and caress the souls of those who hear it. This will require a special type of wood, cut from a hallowed tree that is only found in a Balkan forest. A musical quest that is as thrilling as a high-stakes treasure hunt.
- In a remote town of Argentina, home remedies replace traditional medicine. All diseases are treated by the villagers except a mortal fear known as espanto, the dread. This rare illness can only be cured by an old man who very few dares to visit. The Dread is an investigative human interest documentary stuffed with strong humour and outstanding protagonists.
- Three grandsons embark with their grannies on an anarchic journey into the past - a complex road movie about intergenerational dialogue in Great Britain, Germany and Hungary.
- A thrilling journey through the world of Renato Casaro, one of the most important living illustrators that the world's film poster industry has ever known.
- The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey, is a scientific sanctuary focused on deep thought and the exploration of the boundaries of human knowledge. It is the academic home of Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer and John von Neumann. Since its foundation in 1930, the IAS has brought forth 33 Nobel Prize winners and 42 fields medalists. One does not apply to IAS, one gets invited. There are no degree programs or experimental facilities at the Institute. The faculty has no classes to teach. Nobody, who's in the IAS, is required to do anything that they don't want to do themselves. The purpose of being at the IAS is to imagine and discover something not existent and providing scientific proof. The World of Thinking follows four faculty members and post doctorates in the IAS as they fatigue to resolve problems that could change the way we understand the world today. Time and concentration are fundamental commodities in deep thinking and we discover that to play with consciousness is often a crucial factor when pushing the boundaries of human knowledge.
- Claudia is trying to save the Cooperative company "Il Pungiglione" from bankrupt: 150 workers will remain unemployed and 100 disabled people won't have any further assistance. It's a ticking time social bomb.
- Biopic on Tintoretto with a focus on the innovation he represents in the field of painting. Why is he so loved by so many modern and contemporary artists? Why is he considered a revolutionary innovator?
- The great composer Arvo Pärt at work, whilst the artists who perform his music and are inspired by it illustrate the different aspects of the phenomenon the man is.
- Self-portrait with a gun is a coming-of-age short-film set in the Italian countryside in the early 2000s. A divorced father, Giuseppe, takes his 14-year-old son Giovanni on his first hunting trip. That day the boy will find the strength to disobey his father's imperatives for the first time, affirming his identity.
- "La fabbrica dell'italiano" enters into the history of the Accademia della Crusca and of Italian language. The story develops from the beginnings of the first founders of the Academy to the creation of the first Italian Vocabulary, passing through archival materials, fictional scenes and interviews with illustrious personalities of our cultural landscape up to the present day, with the description of the activities that see Accademia della Crusca involved and tell about the evolution of Italian language and therefore of Italian history.
- An indigenous community in Papua New Guinea is forced to fight back before they are cruelly evicted from their land in favor of a five star tourist hotel.
- 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.
- A meditative mystery revealing an unknown moment in history that changed America, 'We're Still Here: Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited' chronicles the fiftieth anniversary recording of Cash's controversial concept record Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian.
- Said Mahran fights for his right to remain in Italy, where he was born and raised from Algerian parents, after his visa expires.
- This documentary feature chronicles the struggles of Campo's Marina, the oldest family-owned business in Louisiana, in their efforts to be made whole after the devastation of hurricanes Katrina and Isaac and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
- L'Aquila Sept. 2009. A conman dressed as a priest, blesses homes built for local people after the earthquake, but pockets donations and steals valuables left behind in the ruins of the ghost town.
- In 1981, Pinochet privatized almost all of Chile's water resources and in the following thirty years the rights to their water were sold to large companies and corporations for producing hydroelectric power. Now the construction of five large dams on the Pascua and Baker rivers is threatening Chilean Patagonia. Like Fireflies tells the stories of three women, whose lives either have been devastated or will be badly affected by the construction of the dams and who, although they are hundreds of miles apart from each other, try to resist the corporate giant that is about to crush them and destroy their land by brutally imposing a conception of progress that they do not share.
- A travel both into the No go zone of Fukushima and in Japanese people's feelings and believes after the reaction to nuclear disaster. March 11, 2011: Japan was struck by one of the most violent earthquakes ever recorded then proceeded by a tsunami. Waves exceeded every security barrier and damaged Fukushima's nuclear power plant provoking huge amounts of radioactive particles throughout Japan. A restricted area of 20 km diameter, the No go zone, was immediately evacuated and declared off-limits. Seven months after the disaster photographer Alessandro Tesei succeeded in entering the forbidden area. Fukushame has gathered images from Tesei's trip, numerous interviews of both common people and politicians and special contributions of scientific explanations of great significance.
- No Borders, the first Italian VR documentary, explores the migrant crisis in Italy. By documenting the experience of volunteers managing self-run reception centres, the film is a stark look at the contrast between how institutions handle the flux of migrants and the way activists give their time to support migrants.
- Torreblanca is Sevilla's last neighbourhood. There, beside the highway, you can find the former Maravilla whorehouse, which has just closed for it to be turned into a refugee centre. It's Christmas and, before the neighbours' curious eyes, the newcomers to Spain are received by one of the Three Wise Men, to whom they may make a wish. Excited and fearing the unknown, the new guests will have to learn all about their new country and will be surprised by Spaniards just as much as Spaniards will be by them.
- Tales of resilient butteri, the key to a sustainable future.
- SYNOPSIS Darkness is everywhere when the sky is moonless. The circus sign is a lone spark of color straining to light up the huge highway on the outskirts of Naples, where four circus families abandoned by the institutions are stuck in the hope that the pandemic will soon disappear like in a magic show. Their lives have been short circuited after four generations of conveying their marquee around the world. The artists of the traveling show begin their metamorphosis, their forced entry into the world of the "rooted," a struggle to reinvent themselves in order to survive. The circus has stopped, perhaps forever. DIRECTOR'S NOTES The White Caravan was born from a desire to reignite a love of cinema, and to do it in the red zone: clandestinely. Women and men forced to a standstill, forced to question their lives as traveling artists and to witness helplessly the mutation of their bodies and of their children's, and the agony of their world. It must also have been for this reason that we were granted a blind, desperate trust from our protagonists. They entrusted their lives to us and gave us an improvised show: no tricks, no numbers, no applause, naked without any masks to wear. Living in the circus has been a great privilege and being able to document one of its worst moments has invested us with an enormous responsibility, not only towards the people and their history but also to our own childhood memories and the images of the circus we carry inside. We had the opportunity to experience the pandemic inside and outside the circus and we saw that while in one sphere selfishness, fear and intolerance grew, solidarity and empathy bloomed in the circus. What we have found, in the folds of an exhausting everyday life, is the strength and dignity of those who find themselves forced to question, and the hope of those who cannot imagine that everything is about to end. And even if this troupe does not make it and are forced to change their lives, there will be many others who will open and continue to move in caravans, to hoist the chapiteau; because the circus, like the rock, can never die.
- From a town of steelworkers in the wounded heart of postwar Europe to the lavish glamour of the jet set, HIT THE ROAD, GRANNY! tells an eccentric and incredible life story set in the world of international fashion.
- A former soldier in a peace-keeping mission. A woman who survived the violence of the war. Somalia, former Yugoslavia. Two different wars, two different stories, crossed by a single thin line: following it, we meet the linkages between violence against women and the rituals of the patriarchal military communities. Up to discern the cultural and historical roots of male violence against women.
- The photographic art of Carlo Naya, as preserved in surprisingly beautiful glass negatives, sets the scene for Richard Wagner's Venice. In a recording studio, an actor supplies the voice for Wagner's own narrative of the rediscovered first symphony. In the account written a few weeks before his death in the city on 13 February 1883, the composer describes a performance of the symphony by an orchestra made up of the teachers and students of the Venice Conservatory (the Liceo Musicale Benedetto Marcello). The black shape of a piano glides up the Grand Canal and is disembarked at the Palazzo Malipiero, a palace Wagner frequented. As notes float through the rooms, an actress's voice reading the pages of Cosima Wagner's diary interweaves with the memoirs of Giuseppe Norlenghi, who gathered the impressions of the leading players at the historic concert. A pianist introduces and performs some excerpts from the Beethoven-like symphony, revealing how this youthful work is the foundation stone for an architecture that eventually towered up into Tristan, Götterdämmerung and Parsifal.
- Documentary about the Fòcara, a big event placed every winter in Novoli (a little village in the south of Italy).
- For the first time ever a film crew braves Palermo's Ucciardone Jail, showing us the present state of what mafia members once called the 'Grand Hotel.'
- Jorge is a 50 years old gardener and he lives in Rio de Janeiro. Besides taking care of gardens, Jorge is building up for the second time his house in the Favela of Vila Taboinha, in the suburb west of Rio. He's building up alone. The first house he built was in the close Favela Vila Recreio. He spent 16 years to build it up. Then the municipality decided to destroy and remove all the neighborhood, with plenty houses, in order to create the TransOeste, a new "essential" road for the Olympic games communication. This is a well-known fact, happened before to several other people living in the Favelas of Rio. This time Jorge decided to fight against the evacuation politic who prefer economical interest of few people at expense of all the people who lives in those areas. Games and events of different type are presented in Rio as the perfect excuse to justify a brutal real estate speculation and evacuation of many areas who where marginals few years ago. That's why Jorge is not only anymore a gardener. He became an activist of this struggle against a system. Togheter with him there're a lot of people conditioned by that: Francisca is just an example. A dense supportive net of experts, academics, lawyers, citizens, as Mario and Rafael for example, activist in a lot of social project act to defend human rights. We find and speak with them to learn from its experiences what a Favela is and how it stand into the city.
- A documentary about the preparation of the new play by Teatri Alchemici Dadadaùn, a theatre company where all members are affected by trisomy 21.
- Mainstream media have described the Brussels district of Molenbeek as the "jihad capital of Europe," after several suspects in the terrorist attacks on France and Belgium were revealed to have been recruited from its large Muslim community. In the heart of this troubled neighbourhood, Coiffure Zaïdi, a barber shop sitting just opposite a mosque, serves as a meeting place for locals of all ages. This is where award-winning director Sahim Omar Kalifa installed his camera, capturing casual conversations between clients of North African origins. As shocked and dismayed by recent events as anyone else, they discuss unemployment and failed integration, immigration policies and government surveillance. With a fly-on-the-wall approach to these animated debates, and a keen, humanizing eye for the most significant details, Kalifa composes a charming and vivid tableau of a population continually stigmatized and circumscribed by media stereotypes.
- Meet the millenials fighting back against unpaid work. Call Me Intern follows three interns-turned-activists who refuse to accept that young people should have to work for free to kickstart their careers. Their stories challenge youth stereotypes and help give a voice to the growing movement for intern rights across the world.
- A documentary film that on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the publication of Galileo's Il Saggiatore goes inside the narrative of the life and legacy of the world's most famous scientist. The narrative is developed through a parallelism with the lives of some young contemporary researchers through archival materials, animations and interviews. It is a journey that emphasizes the importance of the path of science and the scientific method that Galilei inaugurated and celebrates, today as yesterday, the challenges of all those who dedicate their existence to solving the mysteries of the universe.
- A film documentary on the life, works and life ethics of famous director Mario Monicelli. Mario Monicelli has witnessed and depicted the great changes that the Italians from the WW2 to modern days. In his nineties Monicelli is as sharp as a nail and has a clear view of the world and cynical humor on recent contradictions and changes in society.