Foreign Language
Napoli Jungle (Bagnoli Jungle)
Three generations lost in the jungle of Bagnoli, a degraded working class neighborhood of Naples. Three chapters, each about one generation:
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Producer: Eskimo and Enjoy Movies
Director: Antonio Capuano
Cast: Luigi Attrice, Antonio Casagrande Marco Grieco, Angela Pagano
Genre: Drama
Italian with English subtitles
Homelands (Patries)
Sébastien, a French white boy, is forced to move with his family to a banlieu neighborhood due to economic problems. He meets and becomes friends with Pierre a young Cameroonian,
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A strong tale of racial integration, two different stories of young men who both are looking for a place to put their roots down.
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France - 2015
Producer: Carron Productions
Director: Cheyenne-Marie Carron
Cast: Jackee Toto, Augustin Raguenet, Sylvia Homawoo, Sandrine Salyères, Prudence Maïdou
Genre: Drama
French with English subtitles
The Son (Il Bambino di Vetro)
Palermo, today. Vincenzo Vetro, a 40-year-old husband and loving father, works at the municipal fish market every night. Outside his job, Vincenzo takes his 10-year-old son Giovanni with him on his door-to-door delivery rounds. But Vincenzo is indeed a drug courier for a local Mafia Boss.
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Terrified, Giovanni will start digging in his father life until he will discover terrible secrets and a world where nothing is as it seems.
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Italy - 2015
Producer: Revolver
Director: Federico Cruciani
Cast: Paolo Briguglia,Vincenzo Ragusa, Chiara Muscato, Claudio Collovà, Maziar Firouzi
Genre: Drama
Italian with English subtitles
Max & Hélène
Venice, 1944. Max, a Jewish student, is captured by the Nazis. Hélène, his French fiancée, pretends she is Jewish as well, so they both get deported to Poland. They get married on the train from where they escape, only to be captured again and separated.
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Max & Helene is about an extreme love story on the backdrop of a tragic historic event, a desperate revenge, an incredible manhunt, about the search for justice and the need to move forward.
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Producer: 11 Marzo Film and Rai Fiction
Director: Giacomo Battiato
Cast: Alessandro Averone, Carolina Crescentini, Ennio Fantastichini, Ken Duken, Hanno Koffler, Magdalena Cielecka, Marisa Leonie Bach
Genre: Drama, Historical, War, Romance
English
Montedoro
Pia, a middle aged American woman unexpectedly finds out about her true origin when her adoptive parents die. Deeply moved and in the midst of an identity crisis, she decides to travel to Southern Italy hoping to locate her biological mother who she'd never seen.
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"Montedoro makes this place memorable and finally puts an end to my temptation to make a film in Craco" Abbas Kiarostami
"A rare and unique film, I’ve never seen anything like it!" Michelangelo Frammartino
"A mythic journey toward self-discovery, all set against fantastic Italian scenery" backstage.com
The Montreal World Film Festival - Focus on World Cinema; Annecy Cinéma Italien - In competition Lavazza Italian Film Festival (Australia); Atlanta Film Festival - World Premiere
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Italy - 2015
Director: Antonello Faretta
Cast: Pia Marie Mann, Joe Capalbo, Caterina Pontrandolfo, Luciana Paolicelli, Domenico Brancale
Genre: Drama
Italian and English with English subtitles
Snowscape(Neve)
An unexpected journey of two crossed destinies unraveling in a lost snowscape...
Donato, a strange and suspicious man is driving a green station wagon, looking for something, maybe the loot of a forgotten heist.
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Producer: Eskimo
Director: Stefano Incerti
Cast: Roberto De Francesco, Esther Elisha, Massimiliano Gallo
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Noir
Italian with English subtitles
Karolina
Katia and Magda are two best friends about to take their final exam at the Film high school. They like to have fun but they must prepare for the test, they have to make a film. When their teacher tells them they should work on Blessed Karolina Kozka’s story, they say no at first!
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Karolina is a warm, sensible story about what young people desire and the choices they make, about the problems and dilemmas adults, with complicated family lives, are faced with, but also about how you can find help and support looking to those who have lived before us.... a long time ago. This film explores the world of simple, universal values underlying a good and happy life.
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Producer: Media Nobis
Director: Dariusz Regucki
Cast: Marlena Burian, Karol Olszewski, Barbara Duda, Jerzy Trela
Genre: Drama
Polish with English subtitles
45th Parallel
Torino, a city on the 45th parallel, exactly half way between the North pole and the Equator: a metaphor for characters who live there walking the tightrope of life.
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The situation comes to a head when the mortgage on the house is about to run out and the trio risk being turfed onto the street. This will drive each of them to pursue their own destiny, in an unpredictable way, on the edge
of the 45th parallel.
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Producer: Rossofuoco
Director: Davide Ferrario
Cast: Walter Leonardi, Manuela Parodi, Eugenio Franceschini, Daria Pascal Attolini
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Italian with English subtitles
The Medicine Seller
Bruno is a medical sales representative. His company, ‘Zafer’, is going through a bad period. Bruno is ready to do anything not to lose his job: corrupt doctors, cheat on colleagues, betray the loyalty of those who are closer to him.
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“Bruno, apparently a monster, is only the symbol of his society: he incarnates its contradictions, its anxiety, its corruption, its impunity” Antonio Morabito
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Producer:Classic and Peacock Film
Director: Antonio Morabito
Cast: Claudio Santamaria, Isabella Ferrari, Marco Travaglio, Evita Ciri, Ignazio Oliva
Genre: Drama
Italian with English subtitles
Living Thomas (Thomas Vive)
A group of actors from a theater company shut themselves in a 13th century monastery in Spain for the rehearsals of a play about Thomas More’s dramatic trial in the days before his decapitation.
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An 'actor's film' celebrating a combination of stage and cinema performances. A glance at the intense world of acting, always on the edge between reality and fiction, sanity and insanity. In short, the dark and bright territory of the artistic creation.
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Producer: NTIC and Punto 2 Producciones
Director: Antonio Cuadri
Cast: Moncho Sánchez-Diezma, Mery Delgado
Genre: Drama
Spanish with English subtitles
A Forbidden God
August 1936, the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, this film is about 51 seminarists of the Claretian community of Barbastro (Huesca) who were martyred in testimony of their faith.
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Best Picture at Mirabile Dictu International Catholic Festival 2014
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Producer: Contracorriente Producciones
Director: Pablo Moreno
Cast: Iñigo Etayo, Jacobo Muñoz, Elena Furiase
Genre: Drama, History
Spanish with English subtitles
The Apostle
Akim is a young Muslim called to be an Imam. His identity will be challenged by his encounter with Christ...
Akim will have to face his family’s, peers’ and, above all, his brother’s deep disapproval and refusal of his conversion, but he will struggle for acceptance through his testimony of faith and forgiveness. A film based on a true story.
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A Catholic director and a Muslim cast together for a film that opens towards tolerance and diversity.
Capax Dei Foundation Award at Mirabile Dictu 2014, Sélection Festival Braunschweig International film, Sélection Festival du Film Franco-Arabe Institut Français, Sélection Festival Rendez-vous du jeune cinéma Français
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Producer: Carron Production
Director: Cheyenne Carron
Cast: Fayçal Safi, Brahim Tekfa, Norah Krief, Sarah Zaher, Salah Sassi
Genre: Drama
French with English subtitles