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Still Life
2013
Meticulous and organized to the point of obsession, John May is a council worker charged with finding the next of kin of those who have died alone. When his department is downsized, John must up his efforts on his final case, taking him on a liberating journey that allows him to start living life...
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How Strange to be Named Federico: Scola Narrates Fellini
2013
Combining memoir, archival photos and footage with recreation moments of his life, director Ettore Scola lovingly depicts his relationship with friend, fellow journalist and icon of postwar Italian cinema, Federico Fellini (1920-1993), author of classics such as "La Dolce Vita" (1960), "8½" (1963)...
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The Referee
2013
Atletico Pabarile, the worst team of the Sardinian third league, loses every year to Montecrastu, the team led by Brai, an arrogant landowning farmer. When Matzutzi, a young man who had left town, returns, the tables are turned and Atletico Pabarile starts winning one match after the other, thanks...
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Zoran My Nephew the Idiot
2013
Paolo Bressan, a 40-year-old misfit, spends his days at a tavern close to Gorizia. Everything changes when Zoran shows up: a strange 15-year-old kid who Paolo “inherits” from a distant Slovenian relative. At first uncomfortable with the idea being an uncle, he soon takes notice of Zoran’s...
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Pretty Butterflies
2012
Cate lives on the outskirts of Cagliari, Sardinia, with her many brothers and sisters and a good-for-nothing father. She wants to get out and dreams of becoming a singer, not wanting to end up like her sister, Mandarina, pregnant at thirteen. Gigi, her neighbor, is the only one worthy of her love....
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Bertolucci on Bertolucci
2013
The art of filmmaking recounted in first person by Bernardo Bertolucci, the renowned Italian filmmaker famous for directing "The Conformist" (1970), "Last Tango in Paris" (1972), "1900" (1976), "The Last Emperor" (1987) and "The Dreamers" (2003). Articulating his declarations and thoughts in a flow...
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Sadourni’s Butterflies
2012
In this stunningly visual homage to the silent cinema with a touch of film noir, a dwarf clown goes to extreme measures to change his physical appearance and fit in with society following his release from prison for murder.
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Lino Micciché, My Father. A Vision Of The World.
2013
The life of Lino Miccichè, a leading Italian intellectual, film critic, historian, columnist and cultural organizer is narrated from the personal point of view of his son, director Francesco Miccichè. Its account of Lino’s intense life, enriched with previously unpublished archive material from...
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The Desert of the Tartars
1976
Lieutenant Drogo is sent to a fortress located in the middle of the desert, built to prevent a possible attack by the fearsome Tartars, who are supposed to come from beyond the desert. All of the soldiers stationed there are sacrificing their youth to defend their nation against the enemy, watching...
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Redemption
2013
On January 21st 1975, in a village in the north of Portugal, a child writes to his parents who are in Angola to tell them how sad Portugal is. On July 13th 2011, in Milan, an old man remembers his first love. On May 6th 2012, in Paris, a man tells his baby daughter that he will never be a real...
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Giuseppe Tornatore: Every Film My First Film
2012
From Sicily to the Oscars, the film portrays the creative world of Giuseppe Tornatore, the acclaimed director of films including "Cinema Paradiso" (1988), "The Legend of 1900" (1998) and "Malena" (2000); by investigating his personality and examining the depth of his works. For the first time, the...
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It`s About to Rain
2013
An Algerian father and two Algerian-Italian sons struggle to come to terms with an Italy that appears to reject them. With trouble in getting a citizenship in the country, they fear an imminent deportation and have to deal with the drama of belonging somewhere where they are not wholly welcome.
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L`intrepido
2013
Let’s imagine there’s a new occupation and it’s called "replacement". Let’s imagine that an unemployed man practices this occupation it every day. He does nothing but take the place, sometimes just for a few hours, of someone who has absented himself from his official job. He is content...
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Marina
2013
Italy, 1948. Young Rocco is growing up in Calabria, until one day his father Salvatore decides to leave to Belgium, where he strives to earn a lot of money by working in coal mines. Very soon he sends for his family. Rocco becomes a migrant overnight, with all the consequences this entails. Rocco...
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The Daughter
2012
When fourteen-year-old Myrto learns her father has fled to avoid paying his debts, she kidnaps the son of his business partner whom she blames for bankrupting her father’s joiner’s workshop.
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Those Happy Years
2013
Young Dario, movie camera in hand, captures the events that will forever change his family´s destiny. His father comes from a family of creative intellectuals who criticized their son´s marriage to Serena, the daughter of a well-to-do business family. Guido´s dream is to become a celebrated...
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A Moment Of Silence
2013
In 2006, Evo Morales became the first indigenous President of Bolivia following the fall of the President Sanchez de Lozada and the socialist revolution. However, dealing with power carries a burden of temptations and pathologies. The film, five years in the making, focuses on the difficult path of...
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1900
1976
The rise of Fascism seen through the perspective of an Italian family between 1900 and 1945, through the trajectory and relationship of Alfredo Berlinghieri, grandson of landowner and Olmo Dalcò, a peasant bastard. Two men born on the same day and from different social backgrounds, in the midst of...
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3 Women
2003
Three women, three different countries, and the same will to live. Stephania lives in popular housing in the outskirts of Turin. She has lived on her own ever since her husband exchanged her for another woman. The children are independent. One day, she decides to turn a page, forget the past, and...
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The Tree of Wooden Clogs
1978
Awarded the Palme d`Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1978, this drama by Olmi shows the simple life of peasants who try to give value and meaning to their daily experiences. From autumn to spring, when work in the fields decreased, they would revisit their fears and hopes both in the face of...
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The Session Is Open
2006
Hearings are, today, free to investigate the nature of Italian justice, its institutions, and those who are active therein. Facts, interviews, and reality scenes make a spectator feel that he/she is present at a session seeing how the main protagonists act and how they feel. And the protagonists...
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The Battle of Algiers
1965
The war for Algeria’s independence from France is narrated through the story of FLN (Algerian National Freedom Front) leader Ali. The film follows Ali from the moment he joined the FLN - when still a petty thief - to when he and other leaders of the movement were captured and executed at the...
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The Mouth Of The Wolf
2009
A man returns home after a long while. Freshly arriving out of prison, Enzo gets to the railway station near the historical port in Genoa. He makes his gradual way through low-lit cobblestone streets and narrow, deteriorating alleyways, to a modest apartment in the guetto of the old quarter. There...
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The Lark Farm
2007
During the First World War, the Young Turks Party orders the massacre of the Armenians. All the males in the Avakian family are slaughtered, while the females, including proud, headstrong Nunik, are led into the desert, where they are doomed to perish. But Nazim, a member of the Turkish...