Monday 8th – Archivio RIFF

The Belly Strike

riff — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:30:59 +0000

A group of women decided to exercise their female power to save humanity from a slow extinction. Lise and Clara, a couple in love, meet the adorable Alexander…

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Gods Amnesia

riff — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:30:36 +0000

When in a hospital room a woman asks to see her child, hospital employees ask her to follow the typical procedure. She commits some mistakes and fragmented memories starts to assemble a tragic picture of reality in her mind. Sometimes when an unbearable pain comes in our life, we need to transcend the confines of the human rationality.

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Abu Rami

riff — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:30:16 +0000

65-year-old Mona is frustrated by her miserable taxi-driver husband Abu Rami and she suspects he is cheating on her. As they drive across Lebanon to visit their son, the old car breaks down and the old couple is stranded. Tensions rise and Mona confronts Abu Rami with her suspicions. Overcome by guilt he confesses to living a double life she doesnt expect. Devastated, Mona leaves him, but not before shattering his world with a secret of her own.

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216 Months

riff — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:30:05 +0000

Nothing is comparable to the success of Maureen, the ventriloquist singer, except her belly: it is simply outrageous. But a shadow is hanging over her career and that of her manager husbands. The entrancing voice that comes out of Maureens insides has a name: Charles. He will soon be 18, the rebellious age, and he has one sole objective in life: to be born.

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Spaghetti Story

riff — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:20:31 +0000

Four Italian young adults, long to change their life: Valerio and Scheggia, dreaming of their big break, yet they still rely on their parents money. Giovanna and Serena, consider themselves adults, but they have never actually lived on their own. But things change when they meet Mei Mei, a young Chinese prostitute, and shines a light on the truth: first of all freedom is something you fight for yourself.

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SLOT – Le intermittenti luci di Franco

riff — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:40:05 +0000

Franco loads up his car with cheese and leaves Sardinia: he wants to find his family, from which he feels abandoned. His wife and daughter, exasperated with his uncontrollable reliance on slot machines, left him and decided to reach Civitavecchia, trying to start a new life. This documentary is a journey into the darkness without filters and a complicated mechanism of gambling; its the story of a lonely man with his money-eating-machine obsession.

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Ombline

riff — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:20:24 +0000

Twenty-years-old Ombline is sentenced to 3 years in prison after a violent assault. Just when she has lost all hope in the future, and event turns her life upside down: she discovers that she’s pregnant. Some months later, she gives birth to Lucas. The law allows Ombline to raise her son during his first 18 months. But Ombline fights to keep him for as long as possible and to convince the judge that she is able to look after Lucas once she is out of prison. In this dark prison universe, this woman who has become a mother begins her struggle to rebuild her life by fighting for her child.

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The Silent Chaos

riff — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:20:09 +0000

North Kivu, Democratic Republic Of Congo. After a bloody civil war that lasted for years, Congolese society has lost its identity. However, archaic superstitions and magical beliefs are maybe the only elements left which still bring the population together. These forces guide the defense of the territory led by Mai-Mai rebels, but they also make people consider those who are different as a threat, just like what happens to the deaf in Butembo. This is the story of those who have no voice and no hope, but who keep struggling for their own dignity and does not want to resign to unhappiness.

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Buracos – l’eredità del diamante

riff — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:00:44 +0000

At the beginning of the twentieth century, a group of ill-fated people walked for months to reach the huge diamond deposits in Poxoreu, Mato Grosso. Buracos is their coral narration, a different story of Brazil, far from the stereotypes. As luck vanishes, the inability to plan the future remains the only legacy of the diamond. The only person who makes the reverse journey is a young theater director, who left Poxorèu to stage the story lived by the elderly, because there cant be a people without culture.

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Miriam!

riff — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 18:20:56 +0000

Miriam is a young actress like any other girl, but the smile she wears during the auditions is only the mask she hides herself behind . After the years she spent trying to make her way, Miriam despises herself and her body, but something devouring and deep-rooted has grown inside her

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