Christophe Giovannoni

Daniel Kemény returns twenty years later to the place of his childhood, the village of Pietrapaola in Calabria. In search of lost time, the filmmaker collects musical accounts, brings together their protagonists and gives these memories a new life, thus playing the generous transmitter who helps keep alive the oral history of a world whose popular traditions are dying off.

Lazzaro es un joven campesino que, junto a un grupo de gente, vive en una casa de campo, a las órdenes de una marquesa. Pronto, sin embargo, nos daremos cuenta de que en esta historia hay algo extraño, y los avatares de Lazzaro darán un inesperado vuelco hacia lo fantástico. Lazzaro felice recorre el cine italiano de manera libre, para relatar la historia de un hombre bueno: un auténtico milagro cinematográfico.

Jacques Arnault, presidente de la ONG 'Move for kids', planea una gran operación: él y su equipo piensan sacar del Chad a 300 huérfanos, víctimas de la guerra civil, y entregarlos a parejas francesas que han tramitado solicitudes de adopción. La periodista Françoise Dubois los acompaña para cubrir la información. Inmersos en la brutal realidad de un país en guerra, los miembros de la ONG empiezan a desmoralizarse y empiezan a preguntarse cuáles son los límites de una intervención humanitaria.

Norte de Italia, siglo XVII. En un monasterio, una monja acusada de brujería seduce a un joven confesor quien se niega a ceder a la ardiente tentación. Una lucha de deseos, ilusiones y mentiras que se arrastrarán de forma inesperada hasta la actualidad…

In a despairing, fatalistic Rome, Nicola finds himself flirting with the city’s dark side. Drinking too much and living among drifters, petty criminals and anxious immigrants, Nicola becomes entwined in an insurance scam that leads him further into a netherworld he may never escape.

A former war photographer tries to ward off his personal ghosts by taking pictures of trees only. He lives alone among olive trees in southern Italy. One day he decides to cross the sea. Once in Albania, he goes near the location where he had made his last war picture, as if he was retracing his steps. He finds a tree he wants to photograph. He is just about to do so, when he discovers a runaway girl hiding in it with the sole objective of crossing the sea and getting to the other side. The man has no choice. He has to flee with her, follow her and guide her along until a storm separates them.

Se termina el verano en un pueblo en Umbría. Gelsomina vive con sus padres y sus tres hermanas pequeñas, en una granja destartalada en donde producen miel. Las chicas crecen alejadas de todos, pues su padre cree que se acerca el fin del mundo y prefiere el contacto con la naturaleza. Sin embargo, las reglas estrictas que mantienen unida se fragilizan con la llegada de Martin, un joven delincuente enviado por un programa de reinserción, y la grabación de un juego de televisión, "El país de las maravillas", que invade la región.

The film recounts the fates of five of the protagonists of the film “Special Flight” following their expulsion from Switzerland. Having been wrenched away from the country in which they had lived and from their children because they had no papers, they are found again in Senegal or Kosovo, in Gambia or Cameroun, destitute and cut off from their families, sometimes even having been tortured upon arrival. This film broaches the private lives of these broken men and testifies to the brutality of a migration policy that is common in Switzerland and in Europe.

Switzerland still carries out special flights, where passengers, dressed in diapers and helmets, are chained to their seats for 40 hours at worst. They are accompanied by police officers and immigration officials. The passengers are flown to their native countries, where they haven't set foot in in up to twenty years, and where their lives might be in danger. Children, wives and work are left behind in Switzerland. Near Geneva, in Frambois prison, live 25 illegal immigrants waiting for deportation. They are offered an opportunity to say goodbye to their families and return to their native countries on a regular flight, escorted by plain-clothes police officers. If they refuse this offer, the special flight is arranged fast and unexpectedly. The stories behind the locked cells are truly heartbreaking.

Jean-Pierre is a literature professor in Switzerland. Due to the vagarities of Swiss law, he is selected, basically at random, to be the guardian of a parentless teenage boy named Antoine. Conflict comes into the story as Jean-Pierre, who has just accepted a major promotion, must now deal with caring for a teenage boy he doesn't want to care for, as well as handling his own jealous boyfriend. Then his wife steps into the picture. Things get complicated from there as Jean-Pierre tries to get out of his guardianship.

Two housewives discuss philosophical themes (actually an updated dialogue between Plato and Socrates) while doing the house work. The husband of one of them rehearses his part in a theatrical play, reading a 20th century philosophical text about totalitarianism.