Friday 5th – Archivio RIFF

Transeuropæ Hotel

riff — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:20:32 +0000

It describes something magic but also scientifically possible. An hotel in Sicily, a group of jazz musicians on rehearsal. Two women coming from Rio de Janeiros favelas and a famous percussionist who disappeared. A quartet of unlikely characters (a group of musicians) in search of the wizard Candomblé, hired by drug traffickers, looking for the formula to retrieve the lost friend. Picaresque and poetic adventures in Brazil and in Sicily and the grand final concert. The film was written and directed on the narrative principle of melodrama. It is a meditation on the state of being contemporary, on the value of music and poetry, on magical and rational thought, on the danger we have, today, to disappear for the theft of consciousness.

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Two Hundred Thousand Dirty

riff — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 20:20:59 +0000

Welcome to the monotonous, oppressive modern American byproduct of suburban sprawl: the urban strip mall. Native to this environment and products of outdated pop culture are Rob (Mark Greenfield) and Manny (Coolio), the unsuccessful, unrefined and uncouth sales force behind Affordable Mattress. When new employee Isabelle (Rocío Verdejo) is hired in hopes of improving dismal sales, some things do change and after recruiting fellow strip mall burnout Martin (C. Clayton Blackwell), shes got everyone working together towards a common goal 200,000 dollars.

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Zinì e Amì

riff — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 20:20:14 +0000

Zinì and Amì is a technological love story between a boy and an android. Like all love stories it has its difficulties and like all relationships with technology has its complications. The drama of Zinì is that the two problems coincide. After a disappointment in love, Zinì decides to buy Amì. The android is one of the latest prototypes out on the market and it is practically perfect but…

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Suicidio Italia – Storie di estrema dignità

riff — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:40:20 +0000

In the documentary “All down in the air” Alitalia employees cried prophetically: “Today, we fall tomorrow you fall”. Now that tomorrow has arrived. For everyone. Suicide Italy starts from this consideration to undertake a journey of knowledge through the reasons of crisis. Among archive footage, demonstrations and a fiction section, we meet people who have been directly affected by this today. The actress Eugenia Costantini, plays herself and becoming progressively aware of this harsh reality, she leads us to a path of dramatic awareness too.

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Fratelli Minori (Younger Brothers)

riff — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:00:34 +0000

On May 9th, 1978 Aldo Moro, the leader of the Christian Democrats, and Peppino Impastato, a young communist activist killed by the Mafia, died a few hours apart. Enzo, Vittorio and Antonio are three soldiers on their compulsory military service manning a checkpoint for Moros kidnapping on a desolate road no one uses, still in the dark about everything.

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Faccia di ladro

riff — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:00:10 +0000

Italy, 2012, HD Arri Alexa, Color, 7'39'' Continue reading →

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The Valley of the Jato (La Valle dello Jato)

riff — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:40:49 +0000

In the heart of Sicily, where the Mafia still rules, one man and his family-run TV station, has become a relentless voice against corruption and organized crime. The Valley of the Jato portrays the daily life of self-made journalist Pino Maniaci on his personal crusade to free Sicily from corruption with his family run TV Station, Telejato. In a land fighting with itself to purge old traditions, energetic, chain-smoking Pino Maniaci appears as a controversial maverick struggling to stay on-air in shifting times.

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