Monday 18 – Archivio RIFF

Lost Holiday

riff — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 22:30:10 +0000

Margaret and Henry are back home in Washington DC for the holidays. At a Christmas party of old high school friends, Margaret discovers that her ex-boyfriend is now engaged. With her holiday mood ruined, Margaret and Henry ditch the party to go score some drugs. What starts as a night of debauchery evolves into a self-indulgent quest when the two friends become convinced that they are the only ones who can solve the kidnapping of a neighborhood socialite.

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The Strayed (Pryputnі)

riff — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 22:20:55 +0000

A grandmother, her daughter and granddaughter – three women, three generations, constituting a small family. Their hard, lonely and miserable lives have become closely intertwined with love and hate playing a part in their own personal circumstances. A trip to visit the grandmother living in the small, God-forsaken and almost abandoned village of Pryputnі becomes a turning point. In just one day, filled with strange and almost tragic events, the women are forced to re-evaluate their lives and break out of the vicious circle of daily routine, dull habits and fusty old ideas. A new and fresh outlook beckons…

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Anbessa

riff — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 20:30:10 +0000

“Anbessa” captures one boy taking on modernization on his own terms, revealing a unique and magical perspective on the myth of “progress” that entraps us all. Ten-year-old Asalif and his mother have been displaced from their farmland on the outskirts of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, by the construction of a condominium. As they watch the buildings take shape, the condo’s trash becomes Asalif’s treasure, but this is threatened when he’s chased out by new tenants, and garbage trucks start hauling away items he could use. Asalif uses his imagination to battle forces beyond his control by becoming Anbessa: the lion.

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Di tutti i colori

riff — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 20:10:51 +0000

Giorgio is a handsome guy, but so lying that he even goes so far as to pretend to be gay and become Giorgy to find a job inside a fashion house of the great designer Vladimiro! Olga instead is a beautiful Russian girl, arrived in Italy to work in the same maison as vice president. Giorgio, victim of his own lies, in order to conquer Olga’s heart, will have to fight with the playboy Massimo and in the end he will be forced to become for the first time an honest person.

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Oscar Liebt

riff — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:20:44 +0000

Oscar is hopelessly in love. His daydreams are filled with Pauls laugh, how he fixes his hair, the way he plays with his cigarette. Oscar has one last night to confess his feelings before summer vacation starts and they all part their separate ways. His days melt into one and the anxiety of talking to Paul fills his every move.

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Bottleneck

riff — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:20:32 +0000

Three women are gathered for an act of vengeance. They spin a bottle to determine who should perform the deed. Their plan goes wrong and an unexpected threat appears.

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Plus One

riff — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:20:28 +0000

Happy newly married couple Ida and Jura are expecting a child. Ida suddenly finds out that the child will be special. She faces a challenge and she is not sure how Jura will react when he learns the news, nor what life with an extraordinary child will bring.

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Melanie

riff — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:20:00 +0000

Melanie is 16 years old and lives on the country side. With her moped as her companion, she moves between her home in the forest and the social activities offered in the small village. Trying hard to gain respect from the grown-up world around her but hasn’t yet decided if that’s where she wants to be from now on.

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The Trap

riff — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 16:20:56 +0000

Away from preying eyes, a young unmarried couple retreat to the depth of a desolate run-down Egyptian seaside resort, to make love. The power dynamic between them is tested, when the girl reveals she wants their relationship to end.

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Autumn 35

riff — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 16:20:41 +0000

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