Saturday 14th – Archivio RIFF

The Agony and Sweat of the Human Spirit

riff — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 23:40:17 +0000

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Bando di Concorso

riff — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 23:40:11 +0000

A boss, whose face no one has never seen, wants to eliminate his most bitter enemy and to do it, he decides to announce a contest among the best killers of his ferocious clan. However, there will not be a violent or armed test, but the interpretation of a poem!
However, among the selected killers there is a strange and unexpected infiltrator.

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Disinstallare un Amore

riff — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 22:50:50 +0000

Andrea can’t forget Anna. He is caught in the net of memories of that love. A weird huckster promises him that he will delete any traces of it. The backwards formatting process will, however, make good memories re-emerge and along with them the desire to win her heart back again.

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Silence

riff — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 22:50:25 +0000

A married couple in their bedroom. Something unexpected will disturb their connubial peace. A brief reinterpretation of the homonymous poem by Edgar Allan Poe.

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Winter Frog (Grenouille d’Hiver)

riff — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 22:20:50 +0000

Benjamin, a winemaker, sees his wife die in his arms following a long illness. There is only one solution for him: death. But a young Japanese woman, coming specially to taste his wine will gently bring him to mourn the death of his wife through a series of symbols and exchanges between two cultures.

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Il Regista del Mondo

riff — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 22:20:40 +0000

Power is a diplomatic democracy, called economics, and it is everything that seems obvious, in fact everything is carefully studied. Pharmaceutical, Seigniorage, Oilmen, Media, Mafia, Politics, Religion and more, in a current, provocative and reporting story.

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Ristabbanna

riff — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 22:20:38 +0000

The old saltworker Natale just has got a nephew, Rosina, who left to United States to become an actress. To convince her to come back, Natale begins to shoot little movies so she can miss home. When he passes away, she decided to attend the ceremony. No need for her to stay longer in Sicily, but an intense earthquake shocks her when she finds out Natale knew the truth about her life in America. This is how her being a diva crack down and her uncertainties come up…

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Betty Boop

riff — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 21:20:55 +0000

“Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong” according to the first Murphy’s law. For Cocchi, a young employee, being fired is the first in a series of terrible, nasty, kinky and creepy things that happen to him during one hot summer day in Rome. After his car breaks down in suburbs, he enters the only open place that he has found on his way: a strange nightclub called “Betty Boop”…

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Uno Studente di Nome Alessandro

riff — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 21:20:12 +0000

On March 5, 1982, a robbery of the NAR, the latest in Francesca Mambro. Commandos stormed the BNL Irnerio Square in Rome. Upon arrival of the police, a gunfight began. Caravillani Alexander, aged 17, was killed. Alexander was a student at the Art College in Piazza Risorgimento IV that now bears his name.

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Melkam Zena

riff — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 21:00:57 +0000

Life in Ankober rural area (Ethiopia) is told by his habitants in a constant confrontation and meditation over the possibilities and ‘impossibilities’ (mainly political) of NGO ActionAid to carry on it work. From the oldest to the youngest children of the village in the area, the poorest speaks out their needs together with their qualities, while actors Rolando and Valentina confront each other on the meaning of taking our own responsibility.

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