Saturday 17 – Archivio RIFF

Vostok N°20

riff — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 22:30:48 +0000

The daily life in a third-class sleeping car in the trans Siberian train called Vostok n°20. In the small uncomfortable wagon, people share meals and conversations with strangers to kill time. A long trip and a portrait of nowadays Russia, its four seasons and 7 time zones passing before our eyes.
In the form of literary counterpoint, poems of Marina Tsvétaïeva told by Fanny Ardant illuminates the feelings of passengers: their loneliness, their desires for freedom and love.
In this ordinary yet mythical train, Russia of the great authors blends with the one from the passengers, anonyms heroes of the trans Siberian.

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A pelo d’acqua

riff — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 22:20:39 +0000

Marco runs over a man and his father forces him to flee without giving help. In the days to come everything seems to have returned to normal, but the news that the man is between life and death begins to torment Marcus’ conscience, torn between protecting his father and the need to assume his own responsibilities.

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Nomofobia

riff — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 22:20:39 +0000

An afternoon like many others in the provinces of Tuscany, central Italy, has an unexpected twist when a mother decides to confiscate her teenager daughter’s telephone.

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Alla luce del sole

riff — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 22:20:36 +0000

A group of prostitutes is reported by their captor who tests their productivity with a primitive and animallike rite. The latest girl arrived is sent into prostitution for the first time.

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Virginia

riff — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 22:20:35 +0000

Virginia, a psychic living in a petrol station, doesn’t want her son to leave home – an old memory of a fire haunts her, and starts to re-surface as a tragic flashback.

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L’affitto

riff — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 22:20:26 +0000

Angela and Luca have always been together, for better or for worse but now, evil, forces them to look for a way out: a rent contract will be the beginning of a new life.

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This is Love

riff — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 20:30:49 +0000

“This is Love” follows obscure American soul singer Rudy Love who has been influencing listeners for decades whether they know it or not. While his music had seemingly been lost into total obscurity, it ends up resurfacing on the other side of the world. George Clinton, Mick Fleetwood, Sinbad, Norman Jay MBE and Jay Z unveil an unsung hero of soul.

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Alone At My Wedding

riff — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 20:20:49 +0000

Insolent, spontaneous, funny. Pamela, a young Roma, is different from other women in her community. A single mother, she lives with her grandmother and her little girl in a small hut where the three of them share a bed. How can she reconcile the needs of her two-year old daughter and her dream of freedom?
Pamela embarks on a journey into the unknown, breaking away from the traditions that suffocate her. “Lapin, pizza, amour”. All she has are three words in French and the hope that marriage will change her and her daughter’s destiny.

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Amaranto

riff — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 18:30:01 +0000

S. Latouche, H. Norbert-Hodge, F. Arminio, J. D. Liu, Starhawk, P. Thomas and A. Ruz Buenfil, representatives of world movements in defense of planet Earth, highlight the emergencies that contemporary society is facing.
They are attentive observers and promoters of a collective imagination that revolves around the concept of the common good; according to them, alongside the difficulties, the possibility emerges to positively affect the fate of our species and the planet.
Amaranth is a story in five stages of the life of a human being.
The protagonists are Verena Schmid, midwife and promoter of natural childbirth, Franco Lorenzoni, elementary school teacher, Etain Addey, smallholder, writer and exponent of bioregionalism, Alida Nepa, member of co-housing project San Giorgio Di Ferrara and Saviana Parodi, biologist and permaculturist.
Their stories offer the opportunity to reflect on choices of life far from conventional ones and closer to the real needs of human beings and the planet.

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Uomo

riff — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 18:20:32 +0000

Samuele and his mother live in a particular reality, marked by very strong emotional situations. She is a complex life woman who doesn’t have the strength to take over the reins of her family. He is a child in the delicate passage between childhood and adolescence. He finds in his inner world a way out of the reality. A succession of very intense events will test all the already precarious emotional balances.

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