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In 2017, 25 years after the Capaci and Via D’Amelio massacres, Franco Maresco decided to make a new film. To do so, he finds impetus in one of his recent works dedicated to Letizia Battaglia, an eighty-year-old photographer whose shots chronicled the mafia wars, defined by the New York Times as one of the “eleven women who have marked our time”. The director feels the need to pair Letizia with a figure from the other side of the fence: Ciccio Mira, the ‘legendary’ organiser of street parties, already the protagonist in 2014’s Belluscone. A Sicilian story.Read More »

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Reluctantly, a sulky adolescent returns to her parents’ house for yet another boring summer vacation, dabbling in desire and the art of desirability, eventually mixing reality with vision, caged fantasies with the fierce female sexuality.Read More »

Ali and his father go from their poor neighborhood in the outskirts of the city to a hospital so that Ali’s father can be treated for his sickness. However since they have no money, Ali starts to work for Dr. Sameri who deals in blood.Read More »

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear’s loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.Read More »

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“Valley of the Gods,” which stars Josh Hartnett, John Malkovich, Keir Dullea, Bérénice Marlohe and John Rhys-Davies, presents the clash between the ancient civilization of the Navajo and the ultra-modern, high-tech world of multi-billionaires.

The Navajo “live in really very harsh conditions and their territory is surrounded by this super civilization, the Roman Empire of today, with this epitome of technical innovation,” Majewski told Variety. “I don’t know whether there is another place in the world that has this kind of absolute opposite sides.”Read More »

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This quasi-sequel to The Perfumed Nightmare is not so widely known as Tahimik’s debut and yet is animated by a similar playfulness and resourcefulness and equally as inventive. Though shot immediately after “Nightmare”, “Yoyo” was only completed after Turumba, and, as such is usually considered as Tahimik’s third feature.Read More »

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When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and everything is possible.Read More »

During one night, a woman walks through Rio de Janeiro, and hears the music around: jazz, rock, eletronica…Read More »

A poor postman in Isla Negra, Chile, befriends Pablo Neruda and asks his help in writing poems to the woman of his dreams.Read More »