The women of San Costantino and San Paolo Albanese, in Basilicata, sing with their high, ragged voices. They sing the ancient vjeshet, passed down from mother to daughter, which recount the flight of Albanians who took refuge in southern Italy five centuries ago. Stories of courageous and ironic women,…
Through valuable archive material and the real voices of female partisans, this film tells the role of young women in the Italian Resistance, who were mostly teenager at the time. As they say, this period marked the birth of feminism in Italy and in other European Countries, where the struggle for liberation…
Jasmina is a twenty-four-year-old girl, remanded in custody in prison. In jail with her, live her younger children: Lolita, a two-year-old girl, and Diego, a few months’ baby. Her older son on the contrary lives outside with his grandmother. The movie closely follows the daily life of this small…
In Marsala, Sicily, Salvatore — a leading anti-mafia activist—revives a nearly extinct local art form: the traditional marionette theatre. An outsider to the communities that once guarded this craft, he sets out to reclaim it on his own terms. Alongside classic tales of Charlemagne, Salvatore…
The film relates to people's roles and behaviours in complex operational systems such as aviation, nuclear facilities, and healthcare. This film explores how healthcare and emergency workers train to manage encounters of crisis, with other humans and machines, the lines often blending between the…
The noise made by a chainsaw. The removed earth where the newly planted pine trees will grow. The Quechua spoken in the Bolivian Andes. The trees, the people, the machines, the money. The tense and fragile relationship that is established between them. A forest in the mountains. The many meanings that…
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An award-winning documentary tracing the transmission of Zen meditation through the life’s work of 90 year-old Irish-American Jesuit Zen Master Robert Kennedy – and his successors and students – in a contemporary exploration of interfaith dialogue on the common ground of human experience. ____________________________________________________________________________________ 'A…
Winner of the Jean-Marc-Vallée Award As filmmakers who became parents in a North American suburb, we asked ourselves how to explain life to our children. Searching for answers, we grabbed our camera and immersed ourselves for nearly four years in our children's world—a realm where…
Portrait à fleur de peau, coulé dans l’amitié et le plaisir du jeu, de Gerda Frieda Janett Gröger, au verbe haut et punk, à la poésie brandie envers et contre tout.
Interview intégrale tirée du film documentaire "LILOU MACÉ - Cocréer avec la Vie". Célèbre pour ses milliers d’entretiens avec des figures de la spiritualité et du développement personnel, c’est avant tout grâce à…
La conquista de México fue uno de los acontecimientos más impactantes de la historia universal. Uno de los primeros cronistas del encuentro entre el conquistador español Hernán Cortés y el emperador azteca Moctezuma, dijo que sólo con la venida de Cristo podía…
