VISAGES VILLAGES by Agnès Varda

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The 90-year-old director goes on the road with street artist JR to create remarkable, moving portraits of the people they meet. Here’s a wonderful warmth and playful indirectness to this essay/road movie in the classic nouvelle vague spirit, conjuring a semi-accidental narrative in the midst of what is ostensibly a documentary. 
It is a collaboration between the 90-year-old director Agnès Varda and a 35-year-old French street artist who styles himself simply JR and always wears a hat and dark glasses, indoors and out – an opaque mannerism, almost a disguise, which Varda compares to her old comrade Jean-Luc Godard, and which irritates her a little bit.

NICO 1988 by Susanna Nicchiarelli

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Approaching age 50, singer/songwriter Nico leads a solitary existence — far from her days as a Warhol superstar and celebrated vocalist for the Velvet Underground in the 1960s. Her life and career on the fringes, Nico’s new manager convinces her to hit the road again and tour in Europe to promote her latest album. Struggling with demons and the consequences of a muddled life, she longs to rebuild a relationship with her son, whose custody she lost long ago.

FAITHFULL by Sandrine Bonnaire

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Marianne Faithfull has seen it all: success and celebrity at 17 years of age in Swinging London, life with Mick Jagger through the tumultuous Rolling Stones epic, scandal, drugs, addiction and decline, life in the street and then rebirth, awards and artistic recognition. Actress and director Sandrine Bonnaire tells her incredible journey, her thousand lives, her encounters with the greats and her extraordinary lifetime.

BILL VIOLA: THE ROAD TO ST. PAUL

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This film follows American video artist Bill Viola and his wife and collaborator Kira Perov over a twelve-year period as they undertake and complete the installation of two video works, Mary and Martyrs, in St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. In documenting Viola’s approach, director Gerald Fox captures the essence of his creative process, along with the significant changes that occur over the lengthy time period. He also looks back at the career of this artist, who since the early 1970s has taken video art to a new level of acceptance in contemporary art.

BILL VIOLA: THE ROAD TO ST. PAUL

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This film follows American video artist Bill Viola and his wife and collaborator Kira Perov over a twelve-year period as they undertake and complete the installation of two video works, Mary and Martyrs, in St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. In documenting Viola’s approach, director Gerald Fox captures the essence of his creative process, along with the significant changes that occur over the lengthy time period. He also looks back at the career of this artist, who since the early 1970s has taken video art to a new level of acceptance in contemporary art.

NICO 1988 di Susanna Nicchiarelli

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Approaching age 50, singer/songwriter Nico leads a solitary existence — far from her days as a Warhol superstar and celebrated vocalist for the Velvet Underground in the 1960s. Her life and career on the fringes, Nico’s new manager convinces her to hit the road again and tour in Europe to promote her latest album. Struggling with demons and the consequences of a muddled life, she longs to rebuild a relationship with her son, whose custody she lost long ago.

BILL VIOLA: THE ROAD TO ST. PAUL

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This film follows American video artist Bill Viola and his wife and collaborator Kira Perov over a twelve-year period as they undertake and complete the installation of two video works, Mary and Martyrs, in St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. In documenting Viola’s approach, director Gerald Fox captures the essence of his creative process, along with the significant changes that occur over the lengthy time period. He also looks back at the career of this artist, who since the early 1970s has taken video art to a new level of acceptance in contemporary art.

SYNESTHESIA CAIRO 13 by Maged El Mahedy | in collaboration with AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

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此次活动是我们在Detour电影院的一次积极尝试，即在第一轮的放映中，以电影为载体，力图促进在罗马生活的中国留学生群体与热爱中国文化和语言的意大利民众之间的交流。
罗马独家首映!感谢Mescalito Film的合作，我们将放映由赵汉唐执导并主演的《七十七天》——在西藏（羌塘）高原无人区挑战人类极限的旅行日记。
本片由天才摄影师李屏宾掌镜，在真实事迹发生地高海拔取景，坚持运用自然光，历尽艰辛拍摄完成。（代表作《花样年华》、《千禧曼波》、《刺客聂隐娘》）
《七十七天》讲述杨柳松（赵汉唐饰）的真实事迹，他决心成为从东向西独自骑行穿越西藏北部平均海拔4600米的羌塘无人区的第一人。
在深陷绝境，一度迷失之际，杨柳松遇见了蓝天（江一燕饰），蓝天是一位倔强勇敢的女摄影师，曾经在冈仁波齐为了拍摄而发生事故，以致与轮椅相伴。杨柳松受到蓝天生活态度的激励，重新找到了勇气与力量，完成了他在广袤西藏高原上的雪山、盐湖和荒漠之旅。

THE STRANGER IN THE HOUSE [I documentari di INTERNAZIONALE]

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Brazilian Congress is hostage to a so called ‘bullets, beef and bible’ conservative bench. Jean Wyllys is the stranger in this House. The documentary follows the only openly gay congressman in the most conservative Congress of Brazil’s democracy, in his support of gay marriage and other progressive bills, rendering an in-depth portrait of the country’s troubled times. Once a pop star celebrity, winner of the biggest local reality show, Big Brother Brazil, now he puts his fame at risk by confronting the religious majority, and becomes an activist under life threats, target of online hate, the Brazilian Harvey Milk living in one of the deadliest countries for homosexuals, while the rest of the world sees an increase in legislative tolerance.