The Pretenders: Greatest Hits
Jonathan Demme, United Kingdom, 2000, , 120’
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También la lluvia
Even the Rain
Iciar Bollaín, Spain / France / Mexico, 2010, 35mm, 104’
While a cinema troupe is making a historical film on Christopher Columbus in Bolivia, a 'water mutiny' breaks out against colonisers who are stripping the local population of their main asset.
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Targeted Citizen
Rachel Leah Jones, Israel, 2010, 16mm, 15’
With the music of Palestinian rappers, this short film tells the story of Arabs living in Israel, the continuing discrimination in access to housing, services, employment, education and the lack of civil rights that make Israel an "ethnocracy".
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Tarqìz
Focus
Pietro Bellorini, Italy / Palestinian Autorhority / Israel, 2010, miniDV, 60’
Abdel, Katia, Baha and Ezzat, The four teenagers attend a school for young actors at the Palestinian National Theatre and prepare an essay with their friends
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Tavis Smiley Reports: Been in the storm too long
Jonathan Demme, United States, 2010, Digibeta, 52’
Nel 5° anniversario dell'uragano Katrina, Demme ritorna a New Orleans, per incontrare i coraggiosi abitanti delle periferie, che hanno ricostruito da soli le loro case, le loro scuole e le loro vite.
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The Agronomist
Jonathan Demme, United States, 2003, 35mm, 90’
Radio Haiti e la straordinaria esperienza di lotta di Jean Dominique e sua moglie Michèle Montas: un documentario per rendere omaggio al giornalista assassinato nel 2000 e raccontare la storia di un paese da liberare.
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The Complex Sessions
Jonathan Demme, United States, 1994, 35mm, 30’
A metà tra corto musicale e videoclip, è la ripresa di Neil Young e i Crazy Horses in concerto nel 1994 che eseguono quattro canzoni tratte dall'album "Sleeps With Angels".
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The Green Wave
Ali Samadi Ahadi, Germany, 2010, HD, 80’
The iranian revolution narrates through animation, facebook, twitter, web videos and through a lot of voices who protested against the untouchable regime of Ahmadinejad.
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The Journals of Musan
Park Jung-bum, South Korea, 2010, HD , 127’
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The Lady Paranorma
Vincent Marcone, Canada, 2010, miniDV, 6’
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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Wes Anderson, United States, 2004, 35mm, 119’
The oceanographer Steve Zissou, a Bill Murray inspired by Jean Cocteau, cannot seem to find anyone to finance his research into the panther shark, the animal that killed his friend Esteban.
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The Manchurian Candidate
Jonathan Demme, United States, 2004, 35mm, 129’
Dopo la Desert Storm, l'unità dell'esercito di Ben De Marco e Raymond Shaw si è sciolta. Il primo indaga su terribili sogni ricorrenti, il secondo è candidato alla Vicepresidenza. La senatrice Shaw, madre di Raymond, ha sospetti legami con una multinazionale delle armi.
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The Mill And The Cross
Lech Majewski, Sweden / Poland, 2011, HD, 92’
Set in The Road to Calvary by Pieter Bruegel, The Mill And The Cross calls into question the dimensions of artwork and its significance in the transmission of
values and meanings. Through this setting Majewski thins the distance between reality and artistic dimension and uses the figure of Brughel himself to tell his own
view on the role of art as a vehicle for shared meanings and values. Through the interpretation of Rutger Hauer in the role of the famous Flemish painter.
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The Pipe
Risteard Ó Domhnaill, Ireland, 2010, HDV, 80’
Ireland: this is the story of a fight between David and Golia, where, for the first time, who wins is David. In spite of Golia is one of the bigger petroleum's multinational companies.
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The School of Rock
Richard Linklater, United States / Germany, 2003, 35mm, 108’
Thrown out of his band, Dewey Finn takes the place of his friend Ned and pretends to be a supply teacher in a high school. No history or geography: Finn teaches kids AC/DC and the Ramones, with the aim of putting together a band.
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The Silence of the Lambs
Jonathan Demme, United States, 1991, 35mm, 118’
Per arrestare la furia di un serial killer, una giovane detective deve relazionarsi con Hannibal Lecter, pluriomicida pericoloso e dall'intelligenza sopraffina. Il thriller per eccellenza degli anni 90, vincitore di 5 premi Oscar.
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The Spill
Martin Smith, Marcela Gaviria, United States, 2010, 35mm, 60’
A tough journalistic investigation on the accidents, disasters and violations of safety laws by British Petroleum, leading to the catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico which could have perhaps been prevented and avoided.
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The Stinking Ship
Bagassi, Koura, United States, 2010, 35mm, 26’
The film tells of the dramatic humanitarian and environmental crisis that took place after the discharge of toxic waste from a cargo ship by a multinational oil company in a small town in the Ivory Coast.
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The Swell Season
Nick August-Perna, Chris Dapkins, Carlo Mirabella-Davis, United States, 2011, HD, 90’
The Swell Season are the duo composed of Irishman Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, made famous worldwide by a small independent film that made it to the Oscars in 2007, "Once". The fragile balance between celebrity and everyday life, fiction and reality.
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The Truth about Charlie
Jonathan Demme, United States / Germany, 2002, 35mm, 104’
Remake dello splendido Charade di Stanley Donen, è la storia di una bellissima vedova braccata da vari personaggi che hanno un conto in sospeso col defunto marito Charlie. Suspence, romance e un omaggio alla Parigi di Truffaut.
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Tony goes to San Francis
Derek Debru, Alexandre Van Enst, Lena Obuhkova, Uganda, 2011, HD, 13’
The Refugee next door, a Belgian NGO, manages a project for the education of children in Uganda, giving free education to those who, like Tony, could not otherwise afford it. In the crowded classrooms there are activities for children and employment for young teachers.
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The Gloaming
Nobrain, France, 2010, HD, 14’
A creator blows on a globe of amalgamated earth that becomes populated with tiny impetuous and neurotic figures. They go to war, create and destroy gods, to then be dominated by their very own inventions. This short film by the French group Nobrain is not just a technical jewel, wisely mixing together various techniques. It is the upside-down history of the whole of humanity, collapsed by its own doing. An apocalypse where it is impossible not to recognise ourselves.
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The Homogenics
Gerard Freixes Ribera, Spain, 2010, Digital Video, 4’
On an elegant black and white television set, someone comes home from work. It's the actor Dick Van Dyke, the chimney sweep from Mary Poppins. However, when the doorbell rings again, who is there but another Dick Van Dyke? And on it goes. The digital multiplication of the protagonist creates a series episode that is light-hearted and Pirandellian. An experimental work, created by cutting and splicing five episodes of the Dick Van Dyke Show available in the public domain.
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The External World
David O'Reilly, Germany, 2010, HD, 15’
A 3D world that is imprecise, anti-perfectionist and poetic, populated by hysterical characters and epitomised by borderline humour. The Irish animator, David O'Reilly, a theoretician of digital imprecision returns to the screen to show us how difficult it is to learn to play the piano in a world where gags explode like fireworks. Further confirmation of the talent demonstrated in Please Say Something, his psycho-Disney debut which beguiled audiences in Berlin and Milan two years ago.
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Third Date
John Viener, United States, 2010, Canon 5d, 5’
Between episodes of Family Guy, where he dubs about a hundred characters, Viener makes exhilarating short films in which he attacks the average man's machismo. At no cost but with great comical ideas. In Third Date he manages to get the girl of his dreams in bed with him. She asks him: "You're not like all other men, are you?". The compulsory answer is no. But the surprise the next morning will be…disrupting.
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