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- The intimate portrait of a woman who returns home to care for her dying mother. A delicate and nuanced story of a fractured family, the story explores universal themes of abandonment, aging, acceptance, and redemption.
- There's no definitive separation as long as there is memory. Since the Tsunami hit the northern part of Japan's coast in 2011, more than 20 thousand people lost their lives, and many others are still missing. As time went by the families of the victims abandoned all hope and stopped looking for their loved ones. However, this is the story of two men that are still fully committed to their respective searching activities. Even though their backgrounds are extremely different, both share a strong force of will and firmly wish to keep alive the memories of the ones that went missing. Perseverance is what pushed an ex-convict to look for redemption by helping the victims' families to find the remains of their loved ones, and perseverance is what brought a bus driver to start to dive in order to search for his wife.
- Andreas and Alessandro are two friends more or less the same age who have known each other since childhood.
- An old man with a package full of photos and letters sits every day on a bench in Wash. Sq. Park. To all those sitting next to him, he shares the love story he had with his loved wife for over 50 years. In this way, he keeps her alive.
- Domenico Notarangelo, who died December 6 2016, was a great, absolute talent like Henri Cartier-Bresson or Sebastiao Salgado. But Domenico Notarangelo did not travel around the world like those legends of photography did. All his works have been focused on the land where he belongs, Puglia and Basilicata. Notarangelo was officially a political man and a journalist, and he was passionate for cinema and literature. He gave his crucial help to Pier Paolo Pasolini in the making of "The Gospel according to St. Matthew", he was considered like a son by the great painter and writer Carlo Levi whom he buried in Basilicata like he wished, and he was the "queen maker" of Maria Ippolita Santomassimo, the first female major of the South of Italy. Notarangelo has made 100.000 photographs and he has shot hundreds of hours of very precious footage in Super 8. Extraordinary images that can tell the story of the South of Italy like no other source. This documentary represents more than two years of intense work by the director David Grieco, his son Manuel Grieco, the sons of Domenico Notarangelo Peppe and Toni, and Michele Cecere, historian and anthropologist.
- Tama is a Japanese musician who loves to play with his band, the VaiWatt. But she has to look like an "ordinary" woman in order to be accepted at the workplace during the day.
- Tomoshibi follows the 2011 Japan tsunami survivors. Walls now stand as reminders, separating humanity from the sea. The film explores adaptation to life with these barriers, reflecting on the relationship between man and nature.
- This documentary follows the Fort Apache Theatre Company through one year of intense work. All the members of Fort Apache have participated to the theatre workshops that were held at Rebibbia (the primary jail in Rome), and are now able to pursue their new passion for acting even outside of prison. Now, after many years of hard work and dedication, these ex-convicts are now part of the Fort Apache "family" under the lead of Valentina Esposito, who is the founder of the company as well as the screenwriter and director of all the plays. Valentina takes inspiration from the ex-convicts' difficult lives and unresolved relationships, and turns them into a screenplay that every actor can identify with and take as a cue to better understand their traumas. This theatre experience was born from the actors' past, their broken souls, tattooed bodies, and violent language, and is also a way for them to face life with some precious life-changing tools. The bond between reality and theatrical fiction is at the heart of the documentary, as well as the alternation between the actor's private lives and the theater rehearsals. Our aim is to open up a window on the ex-convicts' past lives, and follow their journey from imprisonment to freedom. We want to bring the extraordinary determination that allows them to face the "outside world" to the screen. The actors never miss a rehearsal. Their passion for theater is what unites them, what enables them to find a new "family", and an alternate universe in which they can freely express themselves. The unexpected success of Marcello Fonte after his role in the movie "Dogman", and his victory of the best actor's Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, have brought the medias' attention to Fort Apache. In the months leading up to the staging of Valentina's new play, "Famiglia", which will take place in the very prestigious India theater in Rome, the actors will rehearse intensely in order to appear to the audience only as "actors" and not as "ex-convicts" anymore.