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- An examination of life inside the Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the reclusive Carthusian Order in France.
- Robert and Elena are twins entangled in a tale of puberty, philosophy and sexuality.
- An old shepherd lives his last days in a quiet medieval village perched high on the hills of Calabria, at the southernmost tip of Italy. He herds goats under skies that most villagers have deserted long ago. He is sick, and believes to find his medicine in the dust he collects on the church floor, which he drinks in his water every day.
- The film follows the daily life of Vanda Duarte, a heroin addict in Lisbon, and the community she lives in.
- Against a heavy cloak of secrecy, a 12-year-old girl smitten with her handsome classmate ventures deeper and deeper into the enchanted Sicilian forests to find him, unaware of just how thick is the mystery behind his strange disappearance.
- Teo has a good job, a fiancee, lovers, no intention to assume any responsibility in his life. The meeting with Emma, a blind woman, will upset his convictions.
- Vargas, a 54 year old man, gets out of jail in the prvince of Corrientes, Argentina. Once released, he wants to find his now adult daughter, who lives in a swampy and remote area. To get there, he must cross great distances in a small boat on the rivers, scoring deep into the jungle. Vargas is a quiet and self-contained man. He possesses the restraint of those living close to nature. A deep mystery surrounds him, the people he encounters and the places he goes through, all that taking in the unalterable world he finds almost unchanged after his long years of incarceration.
- A sci-fi fantasy about a world where it is illegal to enjoy any kind of media except in a place called Megaville. After catching a brutal killer named Jenson, the media police send an agent, Palinov, to infiltrate Jenson's circle of criminals in Megaville because Palinov bears a striking resemblance to Jenson. Palinov, however, begins to suffer intense headaches and has visions of the killings. His mission becomes even more confusing when the president of Megaville is assassinated and the media police seem more interested in doing business with the criminals than catching them.
- The story of a young couple who live in a small town with their four-year-old daughter. The husband is so caught up in his work as a policeman that he gradually becomes increasingly alienated from his wife and daughter who become ever closer to one another as they discover the new town. It is only a matter of time before the conflicts within the family manifest themselves.
- With the destruction of Fontainhas nearly complete, the old man Ventura wanders around a bleak housing project and the ruins of the slums, meeting with his kids and old friends.
- A psychologically damaged youth decides to kill his parents.
- Struggling against obscure threats menacing her little girl, Nicole will discover an unbearable truth.
- Tibetan Buddhist Master Choogyal Namkhai Norbu watches as his western-born son, Yeshi, who was recognized at birth as the reincarnation of a famous spiritual master, considers departing from tradition to embrace the modern world.
- The owners of an Italian textile factory sell majority of property to a multinational company.
- Two cars come face to face in a narrow street in Italy. When neither one of the drivers wants to back down to let the other pass, within no time the whole village is involved.
- In 1943, Albert Hofmann discovered LSD. Fractions of a milligram are enough to turn our framework of time and space upside down. The story of a drug - its discovery in the Basel chemistry lab, the first experiments by Albert Hofmann on himself, the 1950s experiments of the psychiatrists, the consciousness researchers, the artists. Could it actually be possible to find a path to the core of our human existence by means of a chemical? Spirituality at the flick of a switch? Do the enigmatic effects of this drug really help us to better understand the human soul? Could LSD be an instrument of contemporary psychiatry? Of modern brain research?
- The adventurous saga of the Swiss bridge builder Othmar H. Ammann, who moved to America as a young engineer - and created modern icons in New York with his visionary suspension bridges.
- A widowed working-class father falls in love with a struggling, poor artist.
- The main character, a Russian girl Irina, lives in Geneva, where she emigrated at the age of seven with her mother, Marina. An old friend of Marina's offers Ira to work as a translator for Ivan Tashkov, who is in prison. According to the Swiss authorities, Tashkov is a crime boss, but he does not consider himself such.
- Set in the Tadjik village of Asht, this film draws on the Muslim notion that we are born with an angel on each shoulder, and that the angel on the right records the good that we do throughout our lives, and the angel on the left the bad. A man who has served ten years in a Moscow prison is summoned home upon release, to help settle the affairs of his dying mother, but it is soon borne into him that he must settle his own outstanding affairs with the villagers. The nine year old son he never knew about is entrusted by the dying mother with the family heirloom jewellery, tasked with only passing it on to his father if he becomes a good man.
- Alain works together with Lionel at a publishing company, and Lionel is called "sex machine" there for his endless affairs. Alain bets Lionel that he couldn't fall with a woman and spend a night with her without having sex. Lionel accepts the bet, and at random choses travel agent Claire.
- In the Italian town Omegna an unusual industrial center was born in the twentieth century: the so-called "houseware district". The sister companies like Bialetti, Alessi and Piazza exploited the post-war economic boom and became known worldwide. Following economic crises, generational changes, globalisation, relocations, and the workers' struggles, the golden years ended drastically leaving an immense void not only in the abandoned establishments but also in the hearts of the local population.
- The Swiss Canton of Ticino has long attracted fiercely independent and unusual characters - people like the Founders of Dadaism, Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings. Generations of migrants have followed in their footsteps in hopes of finding a better future in Ticino. To them, Ticino is a strange home. An Outland. The documentary begins with the author's own belief (as a naturalised citizen in Ticino for 15 years) in the magical parallel landscape that lies between the Gotthard and Chiasso. He introduces us to the side of Ticino that has inspired, welcomed and even protected those who have come, and those who keep coming, to live out their lives - on their own terms.
- The Messina brothers are Yesmoke, a little tobacco company based in Turin, Italy. Originally, Yesmoke was an online store for cheap cigarettes, selling mainly Philip Morris to millions of customers around the world. When sales reached over one hundred million a year, "Big Tobacco" sued them for 550 million dollars, obligating them to shut their website down. As a result, the two brothers decided to build their own cigarette manufacturing company on the outskirts of Turin, taking the fight to Philip Morris in an effort to level the playing field. But today, the Italian government and their severe regulations have changed the course of this on-going debate... It's like a gangster movie: there are no good guys, just small bad guys fighting big bad guys. Who's going to win this unfair battle? David or Goliath?
- A man in his forties has had enough. He leaves his loveless family, uninspiring job and fake friends and tries to find something more. He meets a young woman he falls for, but she puts him on the test.
- In an abandoned nuclear project conceived by Cuba and the USSR, a disillusioned engineer survives with his mean father and his frustrated son, while 1970s found footage of the "project of the century" describe its ambitious scope.
- When his car breaks down, Luigi, a retired miner, meets the rebellious Anita, an orphanage refugee. Together, they have to run from the law.
- The Electro Nuclear Plant of Juragua, near Cienfuegos, Cuba, was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken by the county's communist government. It was know through the island as "The Project of the Century". The nearby Nuclear City, where the plant's workers were to live, was conceived as a sort of paradise, a model socialist town. But then, in 1992, six months before the project was to be completed, the Soviet Union, which had funded the project, collapsed. A state of "temporary paralysation" was declared. This lasted over 25 years. Slowly, the place was forgotten and is now known locally as "The Ghost Town". However, many of the never-to-be future workers of the plant still live there to this day. After training for up to seven years in Havana and the Soviet Union for highly specialised positions, they had nowhere else to go. This is their story. Using a mixture of archive footage from the town's own television station, TeleNuclear, testimonials of its inhabitants and a questioning voice over by the film's director, The Russian Playground explores the dreams and memories of a people who spend their lives preparing for a future which never materialised. The Russian Playground is a visually poetic film; how could it not be? Poetry is what the landscape offers up naturally. The Nuclear City and the abandoned nuclear plant are set in a barren landscape. The town was never entirely completed, and has been left nearly untouched since its construction. Its vista is dominated by the skeletons of two never completed tower blocks, covered in Communist slogans such as SOCIALISM O MUERTE (Socialism or Death) and VENCEREMOS! (We Shall Win!). The Nuclear Plant itself is monolithic and awe-inspiring, but nature has made in-roads, covering the soviet concrete with vines and wildlife. Shining steel pieces of the reactor itself have been left scattered in the lands surrounding it. A helicopter landing pad is now covered, like a piece of conceptual art, with cow manure. Beneath the town is a maze-like network of bunkers, now also abandoned, haunted by the painted image of Che Guevara; hanging hear him, a dead bat. The overall effect - highlighted through the photography and underscored with a creative and complex sound design and music- seems post-apocalyptic, with undertones of dystopian 1970s sci-fi. Although we are in the tropical island of Cuba, at times the landscape looks more like Tarkovsky's Stalker.
- Nadia Kamel is an Egyptian with Jews, Muslims and Christians in her family. Her documentary uses her multicultural ancestry to examine Egyptian history and identity.
- Documentary about two artists/typographers/bookbinders and their crafting works.
- Celebrated for her eccentric outfits, and an intimate friend of designers Karl Lagerfeld, Dolce & Gabbana, de Castelbajac, and Manolo Blahnik, Anna Piaggi was the living testament to the connections between art, society, and culture. She changed fashion and helped grow her passion on a global scale. Here is the story of an amazing journalist.
- Seiler visits the Italians he filmed in the movie 'Siamo italiani' after their return to live in Italy and documents how they feel now.
- 9 Italian Auschwitz survivors tell their moving stories of deportation, separation, suffering, survival and final liberation...
- The fascinating portrait of Baroness Antoinette di St. Leger, mysterious figure of multiple artistic talents. Her life was dedicated to the realisation of a dream and the creation of a veritable heaven on earth on the Brissago Islands. The parable of a visionary woman with an extraordinarily creative force who, having come from the splendour of the Russian court, died in a pauper's institute in a Ticino valley.
- "PAUL NIZON: THE NAIL IN THE HEAD" tells of the radical life-search by the Swiss writer Paul Nizon, born 1929 in Bern, Switzerland, who became what "he was meant to be" in Paris.
- Maxime forgets how to put on her pants and she decides to keep her problem to herself. Gradually, her memory loss forces her to confront more and more difficult situations.
- A road movie about ordinary people: a worker, a dishwasher, a filmmaker, a couple of seniors and a young couple, a hitchhiker. People with the common purpose of escaping, at least for a week-end.