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La Chimera

La Chimera

by Alice Rohrwacher

The film is set in the 1980s in the clandestine world of the tombaroli, or tomb robbers and tells the story of a young English archaeologist caught up in the illegal trafficking of ancient finds.

La Grazia

La Grazia

by Paolo Sorrentino

Mariano De Santis is the President of the Italian Republic.
No connection to any real-life presidents; he is entirely a product of the author's imagination.
A widower and a Catholic, he has a daughter, Dorotea, a legal scholar like himself.
As his term draws to a close, amid uneventful days, two final duties arise: deciding on two delicate petitions for a presidential pardon. True moral dilemmas, which become tangled, in ways that seem impossible to unravel, with his private life. Driven by doubt, he will have to decide. And, with a deep sense of responsibility, that is exactly what this remarkable Italian President will do.

La Vie de Bohème

La Vie de Bohème

by Aki Kaurismäki

Rodolfo, a refugee from Albania and a great painter, Marcel, a great French poet, and Schaunard, a great Irish composer, become acquainted by chance while chasing each on the same battlefield, by every imaginable means, a beast called the fivefranc coin.

Landmarks

Landmarks

by Lucrecia Martel

In October 2009, Javier Chocobar, a member of the Indigenous Chuchagasta community in northwest Argentina’s Tucumán Province, tried to defend himself and his people from being forcibly evicted from their land by a local landowner and two former police officers. As a result, the 68-year-old man was shot and killed, and two other community members were wounded. In her expansive and enlightening first feature documentary, Argentinean filmmaker Lucrecia Martel (Zama, 2017) takes a sweeping approach to this tragic true story, triangulating the murder trial of the three men, the lives of Chocobar and his fellow Chuchagasta people, and the centuries-old, colonialist legacy of land and property theft across Latin America. With a ravishing, at times vertiginous visual approach to filming the natural beauty of the contested land, Martel pays cinematic tribute to people whom others systematically tried to erase from history.

(Synopsis courtesy of New York Film Festival)

Last Hijack

Last Hijack

by Tommy Pallotta and Femke Wolting

A narrative and documentary journey into the world of one Somali Pirate - Mohamed - exploring how and why he came to live such a brutal and dangerous existence. Animated re-enactments explore Mohamed’s memories, dreams and fears from his point of view while raw documentary footage portrays the harsh and complex reality of Mohamed’s everyday life.

Layla Fourie

Layla Fourie

by Pia Marais

 

After her very intimate, multiple-awarded films “The Unpolished” and “At Ellen’s Age”, Berlin-based director Pia Marais is now turning towards the genre of the classic suspense thriller and is going back to the place of her childhood: Layla Fourie, a single-mother in South Africa, receives a job assignment as polygraphist. In the constant presence of mistrust, lies and fear, Layla soon becomes a suspect herself.

 

Le Havre

Le Havre

by Aki Kaurismäki

The story of a shoeshiner, who tries to save a refugee child.

Le Meraviglie (The Wonders)

Le Meraviglie (The Wonders)

by Alice Rohrwacher

For teenager Gelsomina and her beekeeping family, the highlight of a life-changing summer will be participating in "Countryside Wonders", a TV competition celebrating regional traditions... An original and charming family drama in the Italian countryside from the director of CORPO CELESTE (HEAVENLY BODY).