This film provides insight into how antimafia volunteers try to persuade people to pull out of paying the pizzo – protection money. The pizzo is paid before Christmas and before Easter, and is used to help mafiosi in prison and their families. The film follows the campaigning done by members and…
For its harvests, Italy relies heavily on seasonal migrant workers whose work takes them from one crop to another. Their living conditions are most often unacceptable, often camping wild without any amenities. In Campobello di Mazara a local association, supported by the antimafia association Libera…
Searing insight is provided by a simple film that gives access to the deeper feelings of men who decided to say ‘no’ to the Mafia – be it saying ‘no’ to paying protection money, or paying the exorbitant interest to Mafia loan sharks. It also reveals the reaction of the town…
Land confiscated from the Mafia must be managed on a non-profit basis, and everything must be done legally. This isn’t always easy, but it’s made more difficult by neighbours who may be hostile and even do damage to the crops. The film documents the early days of a co-op that was formed to…
At the time of release, the Ukraine is fighting for its very existence as a sovereign nation. At the heart of the current conflict with Russia lie the roots of both the Ukraine and Russia, which we explore in the modern capital of Kiev. The Mongol invasion would be just one of many chapters which threatened…
연출ㅣ조은, 박경태 장르ㅣ다큐멘터리 배급ㅣ(주)시네마달 러닝타임ㅣ81분 시놉시스ㅣ 서울의 대표적 달동네의 철거 직전, 철거과정, 철거 후의 슬라이드 사진들을 보여주는 것으로 시작하는 영화는 그곳에서 만난 한 가족을 소개한다. 공공근로를 하는 할머니, 일용건설 노동자 아들, 을지로에서 세공일을 하지만 전도사가 꿈인 큰손자, 꿈이 있어야 하는데 꿈이 없다고 말하는 중국집 웨이터인 둘째 손자와 유산할 돈이 없어 또 아이를 낳았다는 손녀 은주는 철거 후 상계동 임대아파트로 옮겨와 산다.
— For Home Use Only — “America the Beautiful” may be America’s most beloved song. It has been sung at inaugurations, demonstrations and sporting events, in a variety of musical styles. There have been numerous proposals to make it the national anthem, most notably by…
Fuera de horas analiza al hombre común a partir de la película After Hours (Jó qué noche) de Martin Scorserse, apoyándose en otras películas como El Manantial, Terciopelo Azul o Choose me.
Dos amigas deciden pasar un fin de semana juntas para evadirse de su cansina vida cotidiana, pero los infortunios no se hacen de esperar ya desde el principio. Thelma & Louise se ha convertido en una película de culto por parte de las abanderadas del feminismo, pero eso sólo se debe…
There's no way out: your every move is watched and to survive, your loyalty must be to the system, not to friends. This no Orwellian nightmare, but the Peach Reform School. Filming inside the school over a year, this intimate doc gets under the skin of China's extreme juvenile correctional…
Four young activists armed with their art struggle through the Sudanese revolution of 2019 in this energizing and hopeful tale of turmoil.
The film reveals the values of Sicilian men, all of them now immigrants in Florence. These are expressed through elaborate public performances at the bar, the street, at work and at the Florentine Medieval Football Club. We see how status is largely determined through behaviour with other men, with women,…
