A true and poignant story from Slovenia: in a sealed mine, deep underground, an immigrant miner finds thousands of bodies thrown into a pit after WW2. He affronts the society to preserve what is left of his own humanity by insisting to arrange a funeral for those bodies. RUDAR premiered at the Warsaw International Film Festival in 2017, was the Slovenian Oscar Entry 2018, and collected 21 Awards at International Festivals, among them Best Film, Best Actor and Best Director..
Il regista ci propone di incontrare cinque stranieri a Pechino. Come possono ritrovare l’equilibrio in questa gigantesca città dalle sei tangenziali, un compositore tedesco, un imprenditore britannico, due giovani pachistani mandati lì dal padre benestante o un ristoratore inglese che ha aperto un pub?
Un incrocio di sguardi su una metropoli in via di globalizzazione.
Introduzione a cura di Luci dalla Cina
El Pepe is the guerrilla-style cognomen of former Uruguayan President José Mujica, who led the South American country from 2010 to 2015. Double Palme d’Or-winner Emir Kusturica started work on a film when Mujica was in the last months of his presidency. A series of conversations between the two titans is the backbone to El Pepe, a Supreme Life.
Kusturica opt for an impressionistic and intimate portrait rather than photographic detail or regurgitating facts. He mixes in footage from Costa Gavras’s 1972 political drama State of Siege as representing the era. But for the most part, Kusturica is happy to sit back, smoke a cigar and let Mujica have his moment.
The film was played out of competition at the last Venice Film Festival.
The documentary is based on the life and career of British fashion designer Alexander McQueen, from working class to the top. An intimate, well-sourced, and overall moving look at a young life and brilliant career that were tragically cut short.
A Chinese man, who once fled China on foot before finding a home in Greece and starting a successful business, wanders the packed corridors of a Greek ferry. He looks kindly at the exhausted refugees wrapped in blankets, while he talks in voice-over about his own privations, giving us a different perspective on the European refugee crisis. This man is a volunteer on a team led by Suzanne, also from China, who thinks that the Chinese community should help their adopted homeland of Greece. Under her tireless leadership, all kinds of aid are distributed: on Lesbos, in Pireaus, in the center of Athens—wherever she finds refugees. Suzanne is an inimitable whirlwind who draws in everyone around her, from her shabby-looking Greek husband to a high-strung dog, a drunk professor and a wayward daughter. The only thing she cannot totally overcome is the skepticism of her Chinese acquaintances.
On completion of the Global Climate Change Week 2019 Detour Cinema presents a cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive re-engineering of the planet. ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch is a four years in the making feature documentary film from the multiple-award winning team of Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, and Edward Burtynsky. Narrated by Alicia Vikander. | “Masterfully detailed, captivating you visually with a subtle yet haunting musical layer to tell a difficult yet necessary story.” | “To reach a better future, we have first to imagine it. Anthropocene elucidates our monstrous deeds in a way that is observational rather than condemnatory.” | “As the filmmakers release us from our trance, we emerge concerned, horrified, but hopefully motivated to do something.”. Official Selection for the Sundance, Toronto and Berlin International Film Festivals.
Sibylle Schönemann era una regista della Germania dell’Est. Nel 1984, lei e suo marito sono stati arrestati dalla Stasi e detenuti per poi andare in esilio nella Germania occidentale. Dopo la riunificazione, è tornata in patria con una troupe cinematografica per incontrare i suoi “carnefici”, che non hanno mostrato alcun rimorso…
Years after the shocking murders that made the name Charles Manson synonymous with pure evil, the three women who killed for him – Leslie Van Houten, Patricia Krenwinkel and Susan Atkins – remain under the spell of the infamous cult leader. Confined to an isolated cellblock, the trio seem destined to live out the rest of their lives under the delusion that their crimes were part of a cosmic plan, until an empathetic graduate student attempts to rehabilitate them.”A delicate and tremulous thing, at once confident and gentle, lyrically composed yet as stoic as the American masculine ideal it so carefully deconstructs.” – The Front Row.
May I Be Happy reveals the significance of “mindfulness” practice in transforming the lives of young people.
Through poetic cinematography and sequences of teachers leading sensitive or boisterous practices to kids from different backgrounds, the film brings awareness to the benefits of mindfulness as a way out of violence and suffering, and as an attainable solution for younger generations.
Covering varying approaches to mindfulness by a range of San Francisco Bay Area programs, May I Be Happy reminds us of children’s natural capacity for wellbeing, resilience and happiness.
Il più famoso “film di strada” della storia del cinema. Il tema classico del viaggio si mescola con quelli della cultura alternativa degli anni ’60: marijuana, musica pop, protesta hippy, pacifismo, crisi del mito americano.
Davvero epica la colonna sonora con brani di The Band, Byrds, Jimi Hendrix e Steppenwolf.
A presentare il film, nella versione appena restaurata a cura della Cineteca di Bologna, sarà lo sceneggiatore e scrittore Marco Videtta.