Friday 18th – Archivio RIFF

5 (Cinque)

riff — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 22:40:01 +0000

The story is very Roman, taking place in Quarticciolo and Roma Est. A story of crime, with characters who seem to come out from the comics, the 5 boys have known each other since they were teenagers staying in a reformatory after committing some minor offenses. Raised on the streets, they pull off a job, acting as professionals. The illusion of easy money, women and the good life bring them to cross the threshold, to commit even more crimes. The incessant adrenaline rush and the feeling of omnipotence will launch them into a world more aggressive, more evil and more ruthless than them.

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41

riff — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:30:19 +0000

A man is hanging around a museum, insensible to the beauty of that place and works of art. A voice starts creeping into him. It is the voice of the audioguide, the voice of a stranger who describes immortal marterpieces in a few lines. But that voice is also something more. It ca be the voice of fate. So, what if his fate is now?

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Three Hours (Tre Ore)

riff — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:40:40 +0000

Rome, nowadays. The father is convicted for murder, his daughter speaks her mind. The river Tiber splits the city, yet it is bonding their lives together… for a few hours in an afternoon.

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La Voce Sola

riff — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:40:23 +0000

Un uomo e una donna si conoscono soltanto attraverso una linea telefonica di sostegno psicologico, dove lei collabora come volontaria e lui invece, artista solitario, cerca il conforto dell’ascolto. Due solitudini che si cercano, si sfiorano nel suggestivo e malinconico scenario di un lago che li avvicina e, allo stesso tempo, li separa.

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Sole negli occhi

riff — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:40:18 +0000

A special day in the life of an ordinary man. Starting a new job is never easy. Holding up to external pressures and mantaining high concentration, forces us to make some choices, but not always conscious ones.

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Vampyre Compendium

riff — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:40:18 +0000

Una figura pallida e avvolta in un mantello nero si introduce nella camera da letto di una giovane donna, pronta ad aggredirla. Ma non tutto è come sembra…
Vampyre Compendium ironizza sulle classiche storie di vampiri e si prende gioco dei clichè del genere, attraverso atmosfere e citazioni in stile “Hammer”.

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Lacrime nere

riff — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:40:11 +0000

Rome, 1953. Alexandre, wartime fascist leader, now lives with her daughter Marina in a fournished room. Alexandre wants Marina to marry a young architect who works to the reconstruction of Rome but Marina has a strange attraction to an older man, Mr Di Porto, a Jew who lived
through the experience of a concentration camp. It’s the beginning of a journey through grief.

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Red Dust

riff — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:10:43 +0000

Red cadmium dust drifted freely in China’s nickelcadmium battery factories owned and operated by GP Batteries (GP), one of the world’s top battery manufacturers. Ren, a migrant worker originally from Sichuan, suffers from frequent headaches and breathing difficulties. If untreated, the cadmium poisoning can lead to kidney failure, cancer, and even death. “Red Dust” tells an unexamined side of China’s economic development: the resistance, courage, and hope of workers battling occupational disease, demanding justice from the local government and global capital.

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Loro della Munnizza (Your garbage is their gold)

riff — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:10:18 +0000

The troubled history of the scrap merchants of Palermo, that have been recycling rubbish for generations. Since the 1950’s they have been working in the city landfill, where they rummage through the rubbish to find materials that could be resold. When they were denied access over there, they came to the city, with their ‘Ape’ vans, collecting card board, iron, clothes, utensils and assorted things. Through recycling, they
managed for years to provide for 400 families while offering a good ecological service. Today they aren’t allowed to continue their business…

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Incanto

riff — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:30:49 +0000

Where does artistic inspiration come from? Images, colours, sounds, music and a few words to depict the creative path – which is essentially human- of a young paintress. The woman is narrated through the actions which she carries out every day, the emotions she feels and, above all, her way of painting.

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