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- Arriving on a deserted beach in the Mediterranean sea, in a time and a place unspecified, Kaspar Hauser is forced to confront the evil of a Grand Duchess who feels threatened by the power she exercises over the community.
- InterPol agents must join forces with dangerous prisoner to fight zombie hordes.
- Six strangers wake up in cells in an underground facility. Their captive decides their fate with the roll of a die.
- Set in the south of France, Riki Kandinski and his elder brother Fredrico, come back to their family castle for their father's funeral. They haven't seen each other in a long time and Fredrico knows nothing about his younger brother, but he notices that he is making big money and living in luxury all for a few days work a week. By pure chance, Fredrico gets his hands on a gay porn magazine and sees his brother in it. According to Riki, he's had more than six hundred men and only four women. The brothers who grew up apart will have to get to know another again but both their lives change drastically when they witness a woman's death in a car crash.
- A young woman awakens to find herself inside the four walls of a garage. Walls that appear innocuous like much of the places in a large metropolis, but which now separate her from everyone and everything. In this small space, an automobile emits carbon dioxide; a gas which one inhales without noticing every day when on the street. A gas that seems harmless, but inside this place, becomes deadly as it saturates the environment. The woman is no different from many others, affections, work, projects for the future, except for the fact that she is suddenly deprived of her freedom. Something which, up to now, has been unthinkable for her. Exactly at the moment she has decided to make a change in her life. The person who has closed her inside the garage is an unknown stranger who knows everything about her, and her past. Above all, the thing which is the most important to her in the world: a young daughter who is waiting for her at home. The reason for her imprisonment is not revealed. Only the amount of time available to her in order to save herself.
- Alex, an eight-year-old boy, seems to have a macabre fascination for violent images that he sees on television. After his two brothers are born, he feels lonely, and he makes up two imaginary friends. Hurt and betrayed, he blackmails his father to get a television for his room. Through television, he discovers the violence of wars, and he is left fascinated.
- Two men must struggle to travel to Prague for Champions League Football Final match.
- An essayistic documentary about famous Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini's love for Africa, and how his vision of that continent relates to today, 38 years after his death. In Pasolini's view, Africa extended into the poor neighborhoods of the European cities, meaning that this film also throws light on his vision of Europe and the place of foreigners in Europe. The suburbs around Rome, where Pasolini shot his first film Accattone, were in Pasolini's eyes then already part of Africa, owing to the countless immigrants living there. He had an idealized impression of Africa, believing that there was still an authenticity to be found, as well as a revolutionary potential that, in his view, had been lost in Europe. The documentary follows Pasolini's development through his films, but also through his life and encounters (for example, with Jean-Paul Sartre), resulting in an intriguing look at his 'prophecies' about life in Africa and Europe.
- A train, a trip, a destination. Two strangers start to look each other while travelling in a couch of a train. Cold, pain, farewell. Arrived at the destination one of them is chosen to be a labourer of the Death in a Nazi concentration camp, a Sonderkommando.
- Julieta and Federico are parents of three boys, it is a high class family. He is a successful architect. They receive the visit of Tito, uncle of Federico, a gray man who has just left the prison. Tito wants to go to the sea and Federico proposes to go to a house that he himself built for some friends, but Federico stays in the city, working.
- A group of South African singers take on a modern version of Verdi's Macbeth. Interwoven with visually stunning scenes from the opera and life touring the world, the film focuses on the lives of the 3 principal singers and how they ended up choosing for a career in this dominantly European domain. We follow the journey of these artists from the bright lights of some of the world's most prestigious theaters, back to the daily grind of their lives in South Africa. Through interviews at home and abroad and 'behind the scenes' footage, these 3 inspiring singers dispel all stereotypes of the stuffy highbrow opera world as we know it. The featured opera is set in the context of present day Congo. The project is a collaboration between South African Theatre company Third World Bunfight / Brett Bailey, and the No Borders Orchestra made up of musicians from Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia and Slovenia - together they tackle Shakespeare's classic tale of power and the abuse thereof. Dictators, multinational monopolies, illegal mining activities, child soldiers and refugees all make appearances in this tale of darkness, mayhem and murder. The film is an uplifting look at the power of an age old art in a fresh new form, and what this appropriation of Verdi means for the makers of this politically charged theatrical production.
- A tragicomic journey through history, via a long and tiring path towards Italian unity: Mazzini, Garibaldi, Cavour, Verdi - names that today seem far from us, but which are not so far after all. The "Risorgimento" was a revolution, welcomed as really and truly epic in the nineteenth century, but reduced in the following century by Italian "dark forces". Power, intellectuals and the people have made for a difficult relationship, often violent and not lacking cynicism, and which has obstructed the creation of a shared national feeling. The telling of this half epic is recounted via newsreels and documentaries, the Luce archive, from 1910 to the 1980s, which, not without rhetoric, span the history of the nation. A critical and bitter feeling, but also ironic, can be heard in the words of the writers and poets of different political and cultural backgrounds; and, in a true counter melody, in the sounds and expressions of the people, who sing their joy and pain in this rich and violent history. A country unable to begin to talk about itself, unable to work through its real grief, to look within, all reaching towards a false newness, which has ended up causing great tragedies born of foolish illusions. It's a country that you could pronounce dead, if it weren't for its extraordinary pages of literature and history and its unique anthropological heritage.
- The documentary consists of footage from 12 erotic documentary films from the Sixties. A dynamic style of editing, sometimes almost hypnotic is accompanied by contemporary music created especially for the documentary by the music composer Federico Badaloni. The voice over of the author blends in perfectly with the music and the footage, showing a Sixties pop influence. At the beginning it starts like this: "Roland Barthes claimed that the real effect of striptease was desexualizing women, a ritual that triggers the idea of sex and at the same time is its catharsis. A sort of strategy to reveal sex and then deactivate it. Before being a proverbial seduction ritual, it is a form of exorcism of sex in which a body generates an appetite but then is devitalized". The documentary takes us on a journey delving into the world of strip-tease and nightlife of the Sixties in Paris, London, New York, Hong Kong, Tokyo and other exotic locations that evoke a prohibited universe of desire and nudity in people's imagination. Through the analysis and deconstruction of cultural stereotypes, ethnic discrimination, recurrent characters and visual clichés, the film, with testimonies from the experts, authors of the time, experts, authors of the time, critics and journalists, traces the distance that separates us from that cliché vision on feminine body and the way today it reverses dynamics and relationships that in the past seemed ingrained in the representation of sex. The documentary shows testimonies of cinematographic critics and essayists as Domenico Monetti and Antonio Tentori, and the people that took part in producing and directing the films of the time as Mino Loy, with the collaboration of journalists as Sabina Ambrogi, expert in relationships between media and representation of women and Luana De Vita, therapist, that tells us about the work she does on the use of the body and the seduction game of burlesque with groups of psycho-theatre with the testimony of the famous international performer of burlesque, Albadoro Gala. The ending of the film has a touch of unexpected originality of expressive language, which is created by artists Gianluca Abbate and Virginia Eleuteri Serpieri with computer generated images creating intriguing animations by reworking the stock footage.
- Even as a child Elio Pandolfi amused family and friends by starring in his own home-made shows. As soon as the war was over, Pandolfi began a career that plunged him into the Italian entertainment world, allowing him to work with Visconti and Fellini, bringing him into regular contact with Mastroianni, Manfredi, Paolo Panelli and Bice Valori, and leading to the formation of a regular duo with Antonella Steni. Pandolfi tells the story of these many partnerships with impressive detail, a touch of irony and above all the attention to detail of a true raconteur. His artistic career is in effect the history of 70 years of entertainment and the performing arts in Italy.