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1) Boatman
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Italiano
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BOATMAN is Gianfranco Rosi's account of a boattrip along the Ganges river, together with his helmsman Gopal. They pass tourists and Indians who are bathing, working or meditating. In a series of small portraits Rosi depicts life on and at the banks of India's sacred river.
2) The clowns
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Italiano
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Fellini's fascination with the circus and the surreal come to a head in one of his final masterpieces, The clowns. The film reflects Fellini's childhood obsession with clowns and begins with a young boy watching a circus set up from his bedroom window. Though comical and referred to as a "docu-comedy", this film explores deeper human conditions that resonate through the various clowns who vary from a local sex-crazed hobo, a midget nun, to a mutilated...
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Italiano
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8 architects, 8 houses, 8 stories, 8 paradigms of contemporary living. The diary of an exploration into the houses and private spaces of 8 protagonists of world architecture: Shigeru Ban, Mario Bellini, David Chipperfield, Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, Zaha Hadid, Marcio Kogan, Daniel Libeskind and Bijoy Jain / Studio Mumbai.
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Italiano
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"Intorno a Marisa" highlights the domestic component and the ways in which creativity and life have merged in the work of the Italian artist Marisa Merz, the only major female protagonist of the Arte Povera movement. Marisa Merz is a crucial figure in postwar Italian art and an eccentric voice in the contemporary art world. Arte Povera made its debut on the international art scene with her the wife and artistic companion of Mario Merz. Her value is...
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The skilled craftsmen who helped Carlo Scarpa to create the extraordinary monument of the Brion Tomb, in the De Cal film parade under the eyes of the spectators. Everyone has a fragment of truth to share, a story to tell. Mysterious forms arise from the greenery of a countryside bathed in morning light. And it is precisely light that guides the exploration of the Brion Tomb, illuminating its beauty and the complex symbology inherent in every form,...
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Fast hands, accustomed to work, mash, knead, knock. The shots are now more deaf, now more accurate, sound. It all starts from the material: clay, indeed, the "crea" what's his name in the Veneto. And like an initiation, the man, the potter goes first where everything has its origins: the quarries. Mountains of clay. It's a strange place, quiet, where everything has the same color of the moon and it looks like a different planet. Who is this old silent,...
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Italiano
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The film delves into the archive of the Renzo Piano Foundation and the Studio. Drafts, sketches, models, renderings, drawings all housed in 3,000sqm of a converted factory in Genoa, which reflect the identity of the Architect and his way of thinking and working. A place of experimentation, the RPBW archive is a metaphor for a sea-port; where goods come and go, each enriching its content and potential communication.
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Italiano
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Researchers, historians, engineers, friends, and relatives describe the ups and downs of Corradino D’Ascanio, the man who invented the helicopter, the variable pitch propeller, and the most famous scooter in the world: the Vespa. This is the most accurate portrait that has ever been realized about this world-famous engineer. Italian with English subtitles.
9) Camorra
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Italiano
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The mafia are not just the underworld and organized crime. It is a way of life, an overwhelming social phenomenon, the engine of the economy and true political class of an entire society. This was the Camorra in Naples between the sixties and the nineties, and this film is told through shocking but real archival materials (watch out for the Camorra children), terrifying and fascinating at the same time. Along with the Gomorrah by Saviano, this film...
10) Water and Sugar
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Italiano
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Fariborz Kamkari’s documentary about the life and career of Carlo Di Palma is as much a portrait of the late cinematographer—known for his inventive work with such directors as Woody Allen, Michelangelo Antonioni and Elio Petri—as it is a journey through the last 70 years of world cinema. From Di Palma’s early credits under Luchino Visconti, Vittorio De Sica, and Roberto Rossellini, to his trailblazing work on Red Desert and Blow-Up, to his...
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Italiano
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Benedetta Barzini wants to disappear. An iconic fashion model in the 1960s, she became a muse to Warhol, Dali, Penn and Avedon. As a radical feminist in the 1970s, she fought for the rights and emancipation of women. But at the age of 75, she is fed up with all the roles that life has imposed on her and decides to leave everything and everybody behind, to disappear to a place as far as possible from the gaze of the camera. Only her son Beniamino is...
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Italiano
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An exhilarating account of the creative process and a rousing, uniquely accessible rendition of Verdi’s glorious opera. Director Béziat, known for his innovative documentaries on classical music, trains his cameras on a 2011 production of La Traviata helmed by celebrated stage director Jean-François Sivadier. We get a behind-the-scenes look at such areas as set design and musical direction, but the heart of the film is the intense collaboration...
13) Fulci for Fake
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Italiano
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He was known as The Maestro of Splatter and The Godfather of Gore. But who was the real Lucio Fulci' When an actor agrees to portray the infamous director, he sets out to research the triumphs, tragedies and truths behind Fulci's life, work and legacy through never-before-seen home movies, rare behind-the-scenes footage from his films, audio confessions from Fulci himself and revealing interviews.
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Italiano
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Gianni Berengo Gardin, since the 1950s, has devoted himself to reportage, social investigation, and architectural photography of environmental description. With his friends Josef Koudelka, Sebastiao Salgado, Eliott Erwitt, Ferdinando Scianna, Renzo Piano, and Gabriele Basilico, in this film Berengo Gardin retraces his life as an "artisan of photography," always convinced that "it doesn't matter how you photograph but what you photograph."
15) Notturno
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Italiano
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Filmed over three years on the borders between Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria and Lebanon, director Gianfranco Rosi's NOTTURNO captures the everyday life that lies in the aftermath of tyranny, invasions and terrorism. Winner of the Arca CinemaGiovani Award and the Sorriso Diverso Venezia Award at the **Venice Film Festival**.
16) Sacro GRA
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Italiano
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This film documents an engaging tour of Rome’s ring road, populated by a fascinating group of eccentrics. Director Gianfranco Rosi has emerged as one of the most awarded and provocative documentarians working today. His observational films artfully and sympathetically depict the lives of subcultures and displaced peoples the world over. Winner of a Golden Lion at the **Venice International Film Festival**. Nominated for Best European Documentary...
17) Genius Loci
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Italiano
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The film is concerned with the restoration and reopening of the Olivetti store in Piazza San Marco in Venice to document the recovery of an historic and meaningful place. It is the place where Carlo Scarpa combines his attention to detail with the most extreme ability in the use and combination of materials. It represents a unique example in the panorama of restorations and installations of the 1950s, both in Italy and internationally.
19) This Small
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Italiano
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Length of gestation: 25 weeks. This is the threshold of viability for premature children. When a baby is born before their due date, the joy of his or her parents is suspended. It is the beginning of a tormented path, made of long waits at the hospital, watching children engaged in a constant fight to survive. THIS SMALL explores the story of parents who walked this path.
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