Saturday 22nd – Archivio RIFF

Since I Was Born (Depuis Que Je Suis Né)

riff — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 22:30:01 +0000

Deheisheh refugee camp, West Bank.
As all children of the camp, Tamer dreams to free his country and takes example on the Intifada generation. Former resistant, Nader tries to protect his son of the dangers bound to the Israeli occupation but also tries to fulfil his dream: to see the big sea. Although situated at only 40 km of the camp, the Mediterranean Sea is almost inaccessible to them. Nader tries however to make everything to achieve this breakaway beyond the wall, where occupation becomes only a memory.

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The Stalker

riff — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 22:20:26 +0000

Lucio Melillo is constantly obsessed of losing his ex girlfriend Nadia and the house he is still paying the loan for, and above all he doesnt want to lose his 8 year old daughter. For this reason he starts to stalk Nadia to convince her to give their relationship a fresh start. Unfortunately, Nadia is seeing someone else and has no intention of going back to Lucio. The day of the hearing for their childs custody, Nadias lawyer does his utmost to deprive Lucio of any rights, and Lucio understands that there is only one way to take his daughter back.

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Un Intellettuale in Borgata

riff — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 20:45:30 +0000

The intention of this documentary is to tell about Pier Paolo Pasolinis intellectual honesty, as a poet of the slums, countered by the government of those years, with stiffness and limits against the diversities. His criticism and accusations to a short-sighted political world, are represented in opposition with an open-minded vision of culture, in cinematic expressions as Ragazzi di Vita, Petrolio, Accattone e Mamma Roma, and in his statements on the dangerous media power.

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Wounded (La Herida)

riff — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 20:30:08 +0000

Ana is 28. She feels useful an satisfied in her routine work helping others. Nevertheless, outside of her working day, Ana has serious problems relating to people. She is socially awkward and even aggressive towards those people closest to her and whom se loves. Ana cant control this behaviour or her emotions, so she suffers constantly and doesnt feel at ease with herself and with others. But her self-destructive, self-harming behaviour only isolates her more and more. Ana is unaware that she suffers from what psychiatrists call Borderline Personality Disorder.

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Tamburine Buttocks (Bunda Pandeiro)

riff — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 20:15:30 +0000

Bunda Pandeiro is the first part of a trilogy that explores the rules of gender and race in the contemporary world. In Brazilian slang, the phrase is used to describe attractive buttocks by referring to them as a tambourine. The film blurs lines between gender and race, reducing each participant to the utilitarian role of a musical instrument.

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Un altro mondo (Another World)

riff — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 19:20:04 +0000

A film about mankinds journey of self-discovery, exploring our relationships with ourselves, the world around us and the universe as a whole, showing how connected we really are and how unnatural todays sense of separation really is as opposed to the understanding of unity and oneness many ancient traditions had. Its a pilgrimage of repossession and empowerment, affirming our place in the universe as individuals and as a collective to create our own reality.

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La Stanza

riff — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 18:30:49 +0000

Two bohemian, eclectic, joyful, enthusiastic, desperate minds decide to have a secret rendezvous in a place that best fits their common idea of love: nowhere. A never-ending story about nonsense where all that really matters are meaningless details, the only thing lovers could live or die for.

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Sassiwood

riff — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 18:30:42 +0000

Sassywood is a parody of Matera, a small town in southern Italy, that seems destined only to accommodate biblical movie sets. It is also a bitter reflection on the death of poetry and the ignorance of the ruling class and politics. The story ends with an apocalyptic ending that summarizes the economic crisis of the territory in which the story is set, and maybe of our entire country.

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Viramundo- Un viaggio musicale con Gilberto Gil

riff — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 18:30:30 +0000

After decades of sold out shows and international recognition, musician Gilberto Gil embarks on a new kind of world tour through the southern hemisphere. From Bahia, he travels to the land of the Aborigines of Australia and the townships of South Africa, ending in the Brazilian Amazon region, promoting the power of cultural diversity in a globalized world.

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Hakuna Matata

riff — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 18:30:01 +0000

A very important hour marks two women’s lifes. Anna goes with her daughter to visit her father. Concetta leaves her sons at home and she goes to her husband. Based on real stories.

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