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- The story revolves around an ethologist working in the remote woods, trapping animals and mounting cameras on them so that he can monitor their behavior remotely. The resulting recordings lead him to a remote village, the site of an ancient curse, where he is trapped due to heavy rain fall raising the level of the river and flooding out the only access...
- It's a model story, an extraordinary adventure, a tale of revolutionary practice and tension, among anarchy and irony, simplicity, curiosity and vitality throughout the whole of Europe, its wars and the social struggles of the 1900s. A tale on how to live all in one breath, responsibly, diving into contradictions, "getting one's hands dirty", and still keeping one's balance between theory and practice.
- "Tanti Beddi Cosi" ("Many Beautiful Things") is the Sicilian expression used to wish people the best of things. "Many beautiful things" are what entered actor Vincent Schiavelli's life when he chose to change his residence to the mountain village of his ancestors. He is known for his roles in Ghost by Jerry Zucker, and in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Taking Off, and Amadeus, all by Milos Forman. The documentary explores Schiavelli's surprising return to Polizzi Generosa, a place he only knew from tales told by his grandfather, who had been a master chef at a local aristocrat's household. Schiavelli grew up in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, on streets full of Sicilian immigrants, many from his grandfather's village. The film reconstructs the major events in the actor's relationship with Polizzi Generosa, a city-state in the Madonie mountains, historically important because of its strategic location at the hub of the most important Sicilian junctions, north/south and east/west axis. This story is told through interviews of the actor's closest friends in the village, people who were changed by him: Nino Gianfisco, Renata Pucci di Benisichi, Santo Lipani, Salvo Cuccia, Katia Vitale and Mimmo Cuticchio. It is a journey inside Schiavelli's world - his private, public and artistic life. The interviewees are witnesses to a story that unexpectedly happened to them. Their words, together with the archive material, paint an unforgettable portrait of the actor from his first arrival to Sicily until his death and burial in the village on December 26th 2005.
- The story of a central European family whose ranks include the names of some of leading historical figures of the last two centuries (Marx, Heine, Mendelssohn, Husserl, etc.). In a study that interweaves past and present, the narrator relives the memories and human dramas that enabled him to understand "what it means to really belong to the human community of the living and the dead".
- Trieste, 2013. Standing in a cafe house, three researchers - two men and a woman - discuss about the murder of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, that took place in Trieste in 1768. The murderer was Francesco Arcangeli, a chef who spent the last days with Winckelmann. The three recall the dialogue between Arcangeli and the Police Commissioner in the interrogation room.
- The message is all in the white spaces between one letter and the next: the rest doesn't matter. One cold winter morning, Dr. Fleischmann (literally, 'man of flesh') realizes he is starting to lose his memory. So begins a morality tale, in a dream-like state in which truth and fiction become entangled and lose their contours. The main character, a scientist, is reluctantly drawn into a world - his disease - in which mysterious bonds prevail: those between fate and the biological and physiological criteria that regulate existence.
- Italian writer Giorgio Pressburger is wracked with self-doubt as he seeks out signs of his own religious faith in this documentary; in so doing he lays his life experience bare, topples all his certainties, gives the lie to hypocrisy and penetrates the most hidden corners of the human mind. He examines childhood fears, adulthood and its lies, and the enlightenment that comes with grace. With the help of fellow travelers like Dostoyevsky and Kafka, Pressburger boldly takes on the problems of evil and suffering as found in very different cultures. His is a priceless example of bearing witness and an in-depth look at the workings of the soul.