The Whale is a merciless, yet compassionate, lyrical, and daring character study of Hannah, a Polish woman in her sixties, as she copes with loss and self doubt about the incarceration of her husband. As Hannah’s persistent denial reveals itself against a general truth, her reality becomes increasingly unhinged. Through the exploration of Hannah’s compromised sense of identity and self-control,…
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HUMAN DISTANCE
TOver the last 10 years, the European Union has implemented a system to control the flow of clandestine immigration in collaboration with police in neighbouring states, who often have no respect for human rights. A task force of specialized police officers Frontex, manages this system. Corrado is one of them, one of the best actually. He is proud of his…
LES FILLES DU TEMPS
The film spans a crucial year in the lives of its three main characters: Diana, Hélène and Sylvie. It follows their relationships, but above all it shows them exploring the world during the brief period when one has reached adulthood but doesn’t yet know exactly what to do with it. Sylvie thinks she’s going to have to leave again, horrified…
STAY STILL
Julie is a witty, bold and rebel 20 years old girl who wears bright yellow rubber gloves. Always. Since both her parents have died, she lives off her inheritance and started a passive kind of rebellion based on her self-taught philosophy: “stay still”, don’t do, be or desire anything in life. In fact, the best way to fight against a…
UNFINDABLE
Someone says Ettore Majorana was an eccentric and a visionary, a shy person, always lost in thought, with little interest for small talk. Some say he was a centaur, half physicist, half mathematician. The say he suffered from an ulcer and followed a diet based almost exclusively on milk. They say he had a subtle sense of humor and that…
THE FIFTH GENERATION
Daniel Berquiny, the founder of the “Parco Zoo delle Star”, takes care of trains and puts to rest animals; nevertheless one has the sensation that it is he who risks disappearing. He was born into an old Romanian circus family that moved to Italy because they considered it to be the artist’s country. Daniel’s life is intertwined with the show…
BOTA
Albania, present day. At the edge of a haunted swamp, Juli (Flonja Kodheli), Nora (Fioralba Krymadhi) and Ben (Artur Gorishti) work together in an isolated village where their families were exiled during their country’s intense communist rule. Under the disapproving eyes of Juli, Ben juggles an affair with Nora while dreaming of expanding his café into the Balkan big time.…
MICHEL PETRUCCIANI BODY & SOUL
“People don’t understand that to be a human being it isn’t necessary to be six feet tall. What counts is what you have in your head and in your body. And particularly what you have in your soul.” – Michel Petrucciani was a startling and original man, both by the nature of his physical condition and of his outstanding musical…
ADHD RUSH HOUR
…your children won’t sit still, fidgeting with their hands and feet …they leave their seats in class… they’re unable to stay seated… they run, climb… have difficulty playing, entertaining themselves in recreational activities… often they behave as if they’re machine-operated… they can’t keep quiet: they talk too much!… they “shoot” out answers before the question is finished…they have difficulty waiting…
JU TARRAMUTU
“There is something no TV nor radio can transmit: silence. During the first days after earthquake, silence was everywhere. Not only among ruins. People wandered like ghosts. Among them silence, in their heads there was silence.” During the night of April 6th 2009, a violent earthquake devastated one of the most beautiful cities in Italy, its territory with its wonderful…