Il terzo tempo

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Italia / Italy 2013, HD, Dolby A, col., 96′
Samuel is a boy who was born and raised in a difficult and violent environment. When he completes yet another period of detention, the supervisory magistrate sends him to a rehabilitation programme in a farm. His supervisor is the social worker Vincenzo, whose time is divided between his job, his teenager daughter and the coaching task of the rugby’s local team managed by Teresa. Rugby here is a metaphor of life. A life made of ups and downs, victories and defeats, mistakes and opportunities of redemption at the cost of sacrifices and discipline, which will help Samuel to find the way.[:] Read more

La mossa del pinguino

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Italia / Italy 2013, HD, Dolby SR, col., 96′
Rome, 2006. Bruno, who has passed the thirties since quite a while, doesn’t want to grow up and become an adult. Even though he’s married with Eva and they have a boy who’s attending the elementary school, he’s a textbook example of the “Peter Pan syndrome”. He’s unable to keep a job for more than six months and he always gets to grips with unlikely plans that never end well. He spends his days playing table soccer with his best friend since school, Salvatore.[:] Read more

La terra e il vento

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Italia / Italy 2013, Beta SP, Dolby SR, col., 86′
Shortly before leaving for Nepal, Leonardo, twenty-five-year-old mountaineer who left education to pursue his dream of travelling, goes back home in the countryside of Lazio. But after he meets his half-brother Riccardo, who became manager of the family farm when their father died, he’s forced to postpone his departure: the future of the farm, which rises on the hills where Chianti is made, is bound by a complex inheritance issue. Leonardo, in order to help his half-brother to settle the controversy, agrees to go to Tuscany with him for a few days. There he will find a special connection with Chiara, Riccardo’s sister.[:] Read more

L’arbitro

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Italia / Italy 2013, HD, Dolby SRD, b/n, 93′
Atletico Pabarile, the weakest football team in the Sardinian third division, is humiliated just like every year by Montecrastu, a team managed by Brai who, as owner of the farmlands, is always oppressing the farmers who also play in Atletico Pabarile. When Matzutzi comes back to town, the balance of the league is shifted and Atletico Pabarile begins to win game after game, thanks to the talent of their star player. As the events unfold, we witness the rise of Cruciani as an ambitious, internationally well-known referee, and a feud deeply interwoven with tradition and ancient rules, in which two players of Montecrastu are involved.[:] Read more

L’arte della felicità

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Italia / Italy 2013, HD, col., 84′
A gloomy sky. The omens of apocalypse in a Naples at the peak of its decline. Sergio, a taxi driver, receives shocking news. Nothing will ever be as it was. As he looks in the mirror, he sees a forty-year-old man who turned his back on music and lost himself in his city’s limbo. His taxi becomes a microcosm in which he’s withdrawn from the world; but the world comes in and out as its passengers come and go. While outside is storming, the car becomes a place full of memories, hopes, regrets and new opportunities.[:] Read more

Nottetempo

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Italia / Italy 2014, 35mm, Dolby SR, col., 80′
An accident. A bus is driven off-road and completely over-turned. It is the beginning of a story which will bind the lives of three people. Assia is the only survivor, a girl who’s always looking for the true love. Enrico, a stand-up comedian who’s unable to amuse anymore, lost something in that night full of odd coincidences; that’s why he carries a gun. Matteo, a policeman and a rugby player, is the first one to get to the scene of the accident. Shortly before the bus’ explosion, a mysterious déjà-vu creates in him the desire to move away and start all over again. His final decision will forever change his fate and that of those who will follow him in a crazy race against time…[:] Read more

8 ay

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Turchia, Francia / Turkey, France 2013, DigiBeta, Dolby SR, col., 20′
Halit is an old retired man who lives in a small village in Turkey. His life is planned around his phone calls with his son every Thursday, who is maning the military service.
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37°4 S

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Francia / France 2013, HD, Dolby SR, col., 12′
Tristan da Cunha, today. 270 people live on this small island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Nick and Anne, two teenagers, have known each other since their birth, and are lovers since childhood. But Anne has just made up her mind: she is going to study in England, 6152 miles away from Tristan.
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A thing so small

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Israele / Israel 2013, HD, Dolby A, col., 9′
Outside a small house nestled among the mountains, a little girl named Lali is playing happily. An autumn breeze brings death. Lali, curious and innocent, finds herself grappling with the death of the grandmother she loved. Read more

Above the sea

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Cina, Stati Uniti / China, USA 2013, HD, Dolby SR, col., 16′
Shanghai of the 1930s was a cosmopolitan port city often called “The Paris of the East.” But behind that glamorous façade was a seedy underbelly of crime and corruption. At the Sea of Pearls night club and brothel, Fei is tasked with preparing a young newcomer, Li, for an encounter with a French police officer. When the encounter turns deadly, Fei enacts a plan to ensure that the murderous cop won’t be able to harm anyone else again.[:] Read more