Sunday 27 – Archivio RIFF

Money

riff — Sun, 27 Nov 2016 22:20:39 +0000

Spanish and American, 2016, DCP, Color, 85' - Narrative films Continue reading →

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Non essere cattivo

riff — Sun, 27 Nov 2016 22:00:02 +0000

A story set in the 90s and in the outskirts of Rome to Ostia, the same places of the films of Pasolini. His characters, in the ’90s, seem to belong to a world that revolves around hedonism. A world where money, luxury cars, night clubs, cocaine and synthetic drugs are easy to run. A world in which Vittorio and Cesare, in their early twenty, act in search of their success. Initiation for their existence has a very high cost and Vittorio, to save himself, abandons Cesare, who instead will inexorably sink. The bond that unites them is so strong that Vittorio really never shall abandon his friend, always hoping to be able to look to the future with new eyes. Together.

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L’insonne – Ouverture

riff — Sun, 27 Nov 2016 21:00:52 +0000

Desdemona is a tormented DJ of Florence running a nighttime program called The Sleepless. The radio listeners are often bizarre inhabitants of the night who tell their lives and agonies. However, this time Luca calls for Dsdemona from a hospital room. Desdemona feels the shadow of fear in the voice. What scares him? Her sixth sense pushes to investigate. Sometimes a small breath triggers a terrifying story.

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Gramigna (Volevo una vita normale)

riff — Sun, 27 Nov 2016 20:20:44 +0000

Gramigna grass is the story of a young boy, Luigi, son of Diego, one of the most powerful bosses of the Criminal Group in Campania, south Italy who still is serving a life sentence and that he has seen only in jail. Luigi is forced to reckon constantly with a reality that is divided between good and evil, contested by “tempters” and “guardian angels”. The latter, try to keep away Luigi from the dangers of these criminals, of the dangers involved in yielding to provocations, and also urge him to study and to work, making him understand the value of family, peace of mind and, above all, freedom.

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Crossing Rachmaninoff (Attraversando Rachmaninoff)

riff — Sun, 27 Nov 2016 19:20:43 +0000

‘Crossing Rachmaninoff” is the story of a pianist’s journey to redemption through Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No.2. Flavio Villani is preparing for a performance that will confirm his arrival as a concert pianist and vindicate his decision to be a musician. First he must grapple with the music and face his inner fears. He returns to Italy to the family who rejected his homosexuality and discouraged him from a life in the arts. Finally the biggest night of his life arrives as he takes to the stage with an orchestra for the first time to tackle the spectacular challenge of ‘the Rach 2’.

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Margarita With A Straw

riff — Sun, 27 Nov 2016 18:20:06 +0000

Laila is a young romantic, a secret rebel in a wheelchair. Undeterred by cerebral palsy she embarks on a journey of sexual discovery. Her exhilarating adventures cause a rift both within herself and with those she is closest to. Ultimately it is the in the intensity of these bonds that she finds the strength to be truly herself.

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Awol

riff — Sun, 27 Nov 2016 17:30:55 +0000

Lola Kirke (Mistress America) shines as Joey, an aimless young woman searching for a direction in her small town in rural Pennsylvania. A visit to an Army recruiting office appears to provide her a path but when she meets and falls in love with Rayna (Breeda Wool), a rough and tumble housewife neglected by her long-haul trucker husband, that path diverges in ways that neither woman anticipated. As Joey falls deeper in love, she begins to lose sight of what’s most important to her while also becoming blind to the mistakes she is making.

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A Beautiful Day

riff — Sun, 27 Nov 2016 17:30:31 +0000

Following in the tradition of the new Greek Cinema phenomenon, Athens-born director Phedon Papamichael brings a searing expose of the fragility of the human psyche in his new short film ?A Beautiful Day? Gene (James Brolin) gets up day after day and follows the same monotonous routine that he has lived since the death of his wife ten years earlier. He is aging fast from illness and loneliness and has given up on the future. Today, however, he awakens with a new determination to end the life he has known. Today, there is a new resolve that will change the course of everything.

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Parla che ti sento (Talk As I Can Feel)

riff — Sun, 27 Nov 2016 16:20:39 +0000

A good-looking man, evidently in a state of inebriation. An apparently deaf boy, an over-the-top guy, insolent and impudent guy. A meeting… maybe a crash, a casual one will put the man in a difficult and grotesque situation. An escalation leading the two characters through ambiguous and paradoxical dynamics, alternating revelations to misunderstandings.

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Gionatan con la G

riff — Sun, 27 Nov 2016 16:20:34 +0000

Gionatan is nine with adult eyes. In the hospital waiting room her mother is receiving medical attention. Secretly, he hears her mother lying about wounds on her face. Candies in his hands and a terrible idea in his mind, Gionatan decides to run away.

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