A notorious gangster is incited to transform into a film hero and opts for a filmmaker and their project descends into a scenario they had never anticipated.
A man wakes up in the middle of the street with no idea where he is or how he ended up there. Soon he is forced to confront the demons he is battling within before a gateway to the underworld unlocks the secret of Algea the God of Pain.
Mentre la rabbia e il malcontento per l’ingiustizia economica crescono, molte manifestazioni di protesta sono soggette a una repressione sempre più brutale. Partendo da una impressionante raccolta di video amatoriali e di citizen journalist realizzati durante le manifestazioni dei “gilet gialli” in Francia, un gruppo di cittadini di diversa estrazione viene invitato a rivedere e interrogare quelle immagini, a e confrontare le proprie opinioni sull’ordine sociale e la legittimità dell’uso della violenza da parte dello Stato. A vent’anni dal G8 di Genova, e in seguito ai recenti soprusi sui detenuti nel carcere di Santa Maria Capua Vetere, una riflessione lucida e urgente che trova in Italia un’eco particolare, più che mai attuale.
Sons of Caribbean immigrants, Francis and Michael face questions of masculinity, identity and family amid the pulsing beat of Toronto's early hip-hop scene. A mystery unfolds when escalating tensions set off a series of events which changes the course of the brothers’ lives forever.
The personal stories lived by the Uncle, the Father and the Son, respectively, form a tragic experience that is drawn along a line in time. This line is comparable to a crease in the pages of the family album, but also to a crack in the walls of the paternal house. It resembles the open wound created when drilling into a mountain, but also a scar in the collective imaginary of a society, where the idea of salvation finds its tragic destiny in the political struggle. What is at the end of that line? Will old war songs be enough to circumvent that destiny?
A girl from St. Petersburg walks around protest-ridden Moscow, talking to riot police and believing that sooner or later they will go over to the side of the demonstrators. An 18-year-old student of a St. Petersburg college introduces herself as Alice and tells about herself that from the age of four she lived in an orphanage and in foster families. In Moscow, Alisa, for whom this is the first rally in her life, walks along the police cordons and looks under the OMON helmet. "Under the mask you can't see, are you even human?"
A documentary about to police situation in France after the institution of a prolonged state of emergency. From the anger of the police to that of the victims of their violence, through the words of activists and inhabitants of working-class neighborhoods, everyone expresses here a moment of unease in the face of order and its maintenance.
