Documentary, by Lumar Brothers, Italy, 2023.
“Ancestral: Life and Art of Massinissa Askeur” is a documentary that explores the life and art of Algerian painter Massinissa Askeur. The film follows Askeur on his creative journey, showing his artistic process and his commitment to the preservation o...

Documentary, by Leopoldo Bonessio, Italy, 2024.
Leopoldo, the director, finds himself filming with little more than a tent and a GoPro in the most isolated, mysterious and authoritarian of the ex-Soviet countries, Turkmenistan. He has 5 days to find out what kind of strange people live in this de...

Drama, thriller, by Fabio Del Greco, Italy, 2015.
The story revolves around Vasco, a Roman builder who, at the age of 74, enjoys a life of absolute comfort. His human parable takes a dramatic turn when a mysterious encounter leads him to an ambush. Having survived, but marked by a long coma, Vasc...

Documentary, horror, by Jason Figgis, USA, 2014.
In "Cathnafola", everything begins when renowned paranormal investigator Chris Halton of Haunted Earth UK receives footage filmed by three teenagers at the ruins of Cathnafola House in Ireland. Determined to unearth the truth behind the location’s ...

Drama, by Satyajit Ray, 1964, India.
The story is set in Calcutta in 1879, during the period of the British Raj. Charulata (called “Charu”) is a cultured and sensitive woman, married to Bhupati, an intellectual and editor who runs a liberal political newspaper. Her husband is absorbed in his edit...

Horror, romantic, by Hunt Hoe, Canada, 2006.
Gus is a charming man who works as a cook in an oriental restaurant in Montreal. His boss sends him to a remote island in Thailand to meet a master of Zen cuisine and improve the quality of his dishes. There he meets a mysterious woman named Lake who l...

Drama, musical, by Guru Dutt, India, 1957
Thirsty is the heartbreaking story of Vijay, a young poet living in Calcutta who dreams of giving voice to the suffering and injustice of the world through his verses. Idealistic and sensitive, Vijay clashes with a society that despises his art because it...

Documentary, by Ramsay S. James, Tom Sands, United Kingdom, 2014.
When Andrew Miners first arrived on the Indonesian island village Babitim, he was struck by two things: the tropical paradise surrounding him and the corpses of the mutilated sharks strewn around the beach. Andrew decided to build ...

Documentary, by Marcos Altuve, Spain, 2020.
The biodiversity crisis is one of the most serious problems on the planet. To stop the processes of extinction of the species, urgent diagnoses are needed. One such endangered species is the Moorish tortoise in Morocco. But quickly determining the prese...

Drama, by Kaneto Shindō, Japan, 1952.
Takako Ishikawa is a teacher off the coast of Hiroshima and has not returned to his atomic bombed city in 4 years. His trip to Hiroshima becomes a journey to his destroyed homeland, in search of surviving old friends. The city has almost been rebuilt, but the...

Drama, by by Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan, 1953.
The story takes place in Kyoto and follows Eiko, a young woman who wants to become a geisha and asks the older Miyoharu to teach her the trade. One of her first clients tries to rape her but Eiko violently defends herself and sends him to the hospital. A...

Drama, by Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan, 1936.
Ayako Murai is a telephone operator for the pharmaceutical company Asai, in the city of Osaka in 1930. To pay the debts of her father, unemployed and threatened with arrest for not repaying a loan, she agrees to become her employer's mistress. work. After p...

Documentary, by Forough Farrokhzad, Iran, 1963.
The House is Black is a lyrical, transcendent film that places a gaze full of compassion and religiosity towards a suffering humanity. The only source of harmony is found outside the leper colony, in nature: suffering reigns inside. Not even religio...

Drama, by Dariush Mehrjui, Iran, 1969.
Based on the play by Gholam-Hossein Saedi, probably inspired by an Iranian legend that Prince Buyid Majd ad-Dawla considered himself a cow. Hassan loves his only cow more than anything else, a source of sustenance. When he leaves the village for a short time...

Drama, by Ko Nakahira, Japan, 1959.
The sweet life of the rich young Japanese of the Sun Tribe subculture which was inspired by the western lifestyle in the late 1950s, between lust and violence, water skiing and speedboats. A story of love, passion and betrayal. Two brothers fall in love with th...

Drama, by Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan, 1951.
Bachelor Shinnosuke falls in love with Miss Oyu, the companion of his younger sister Shizu who visits him as a future bride. The family taboo prevents Shinnosuke from marrying Oyu. He marries Shizu without consummating their marriage so that Shinnosuke can ...

Drama, by Yasujirō Ozu, Japan, 1951.
Noriko, a secretary from Tokyo, resides in Kamakura with her family along with her parents Shūkichi and Shige, her elder brother Kōichi, a doctor, her wife Fumiko and their 2 boys Minoru and Isamu. Noriko's friends are divided into 2 groups, married and single...

Drama, by Yasujirô Ozu, Japan, 1953.
Shukichi and Tomi, now close to seventy, take a trip to Tokyo to visit their children before it's too late. When they arrive in the city, however, the welcome is not what they expected: the eldest son Koichi and his sister Shige have too many work commitments ...

Drama, fantasy, by Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan, 1953.
Japan, late 16th century: the potter Genjurō and his brother Tobei live with their wives Miyagi and Ohama in a village in the Omi region; Genjurō, convinced that he can earn a lot of money by selling his goods in the nearby city, goes to the county...

Documentary, by Emiliano Dante, Italy, 2017.
Appennino is a cinematographic diary that begins with the slow reconstruction of L 'Aquila, the director's city, in Italy, and continues with the earthquakes in the central Apennines of 2016-17, up to the very long and exhausting asylum of the new eart...