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 The film is a touching, poetic exploration of the relationship between mind, body and sound, and a cinematic journey to the borders of communication. |
 A kind of road movie across Europa. From the Swiss Alps to eastern Poland, from Stromboli to Iceland. Always following the scenery's magically charged contours. Immersing yourself, letting yourself be infected, then travelling on. | ||
 SIAMO ITALIANI (THE ITALIANS) was 'the thunderbolt that rudely awakened Swiss cinema from the slumbers in which it had been since the end of the War'. Seiler's cameras descended from the lofty Alpine peaks into the streets of everyday life. |
 The situation of the immigrant workers in the seventies is enlighted through fiction films of the amateur movie maker and worker Alvaro Bizzarri | ||
 Schmid's preoccupations with opera, theatricality, romanticism, and decay receive perhaps their loveliest, most poignant treatment in this remarkable documentary. | |||
 75-year-old Giuseppe De Metrio has spent 30 years in Geneva, as foreign worker for the Broyer company. Upon retirement, he returned to Puglia, Italy, where his family had continued to live | |||
 The director Anselmi has a creative crisis. Looking for inspiration he delays the shooting of his film. The dreams mix with the reality. | |||
 Italy, 1956. In the picturesque island of Amatrello, a unique custom has developed, one in which a father determines his daughter's first rendezvous based on the presents he receives. |
 After an accident, the entrepreneurs wife Giuliana has neurotic visions and is depressed by the artificial environment of factories of Italy. | ||
 A young italien falls in love with an antifascist teacher. He invents everything to secude and marry her. However in 1943 they are deported. |
 After working for 23 years as an expert on agritourism in Tuscany, Walter Messmer, former head of vocational training at a major bank, returns to Switzerland. | ||
 The suggestive power of the Camorra, the operations of the clans to keep the power and the manipulations to stay in business. The film is based on the novel of Roberto Saviano. Grand Prix du Festival de Cannes 2008 | |||
 Drama in the end of the war in Italy. A freedom fighter flees in the appartement of a couple. The young husband is then arrested at the day of the marriage by the german SS. |
 To escape poverty, Rosaria and her four sons leave southern Italy for Milan where her eldest, Vincenzo, lives. | ||
 Historical story about three swiss shephards becoming italian soldiers in the 13th century. |
 Actually, they were not planning on staying long. Nevertheless, they all still live in the canton of Graubünden today: the first generation of immigrants from all of Italy. | ||
 Left behind on the motorway by the coach in which her family was travelling to Paestum, Rosalba decides without giving the matter much thought to offer herself a little holiday in Venice |
 A wunderful woman in red, a vendor of cigarettes makes young men dream, a handicapped uncles mounts in a tree and cries: "Voglio una donna!" | ||
 The circus artist Zampano engages a young girl Gelsomina for little money as his assistant. He does not treat her well, but she keeps faith until Zampano kills another artist, Marco, and breaks the heart of Gelsomina. |
 Italy, 1956. In the picturesque island of Amatrello, a unique custom has developed, one in which a father determines his daughter's first rendezvous based on the presents he receives. | ||
 Alberto, Fausto, Leopoldo, Moraldo and Riccardo have no job and live in a small town. So they play billiard, talk about women and get bored. |
 David Locke, a disillusioned American reporter, is sent to make a documentary film on post-colonial Africa. When he stumbles across the body of a dead man, Locke, desperate to start a new life, assumes the corpse’s identity. | ||
 It is said that the people of the Engadine even while still in their native land they suffer from homesickness. A film about the music of the “Fränzlis”. - Kathrin Engler, an orphan was 22 when she accepted her childhood boyfriend’s marriage proposal. | |||
 Splendid epic family story with the Italian history of the last 40 years as its background. Subject of the film are the major events of italian history: the student revolt, the communism, the terrorism, the mafia and the opening of the psychiatric clinics | |||
 Zurich 1980. A furious youth movement. Move the Alps away, give the view to the Mediterannean Sea. A student with a brilliantz diploma throws away her academic carreer to educate revolutionary children in Sicily. Free love. Then the backslash: Drogs, AIDS | |||
 I am at the border, at the Brenner pass. It is here that my journey through Italy begins. At the customs I show my Italian passport. For I am an Italian, although I've never actually lived in Italy | |||
 A russian poet is searching the traces of a compositor who lived in Italy in the 18th century. Helped by a translator, he travels throug italy, finds an old church and an eremite. |
 The Film tells the story of a great Italian publishing house «La Feltrinelli». It’s a story that delves into the discovery of literature and into a world that has been changed by books. | ||
 The movie is based on the autobiographical novel DIE REISE (THE JOURNEY) of Bernward Vesper. He is the son of a famous nazi-poet and life’s companion of the female terrorist Gudrun Ensslin. |
 The associations of the italians in Switzerland are in a deep crisis today. | ||
 An epic tale of the birth of the italian nation. The count of Salina must see his power and culture diminish. |
 Venice is a place for tourists, fotografs, souvenirs. Is there something about Venice that is not already told? The documentarist Bruno Moll makes a portraits of six swiss artists that have lived there. | ||
 Fellinis Interpretation of the autobiography of Giacomo Casanova. |
 Pietros wive dies so the manager has to deal with his daughter alone. He takes her to school and waits for her on a park bench. Now he starts to encounter many people who talk to him about life and everything. | ||
 Le draftsman Gepetto creates a puppet of wood who is becoming alive. It can become a real littly boy only if it passes some moral challenges. |
 Singer-songwriter Pippo Pollina and the Youth Symphony Orchestra of the Conservatory of Zurich undertake a 17-day tour of Italy. This film accompanies the project – from the initial rehearsals to the performances. | ||
 A stranger is confronted with the wild and hart life on a small volcan island. |
 In Sicily, a fisherman fights to be independent from the big shopkeepers. |
