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Thousands of foreign workers support today the most known Italian excellence: agri-food production. A docu-musical shows their daily exploitation.

Terrified of being buried alive by mistake, a woman puts a phone in her crypt to be able to call home if she needs help. She dies and nothing happens. One day, the phone suddenly rings. Paranormal investigator Nelson Orion is brought in.

A fictional account of the 1958 attack against the Hungarian embassy in Bern. Based on a true story about the aftermath of the 1956 Hungarian revolution.

When looking for alternative energy sources, the Japanese scientist Sekai tragically dies. Twenty years later the Brazilian mathematician Euclides continues his research. The lack of an essential component won't allow a breakthrough. Only AUN, Sekai's son, seems to hold the key to protect mankind from self-destruction. In the aftermath of the nuclear tragedy in Fukushima the film appears like a prophecy. AUN's dream-like images, complemented by music from Christian Fennesz and Ryuichi Sakamoto, lead into a fantastic and exciting world.

1945. Drama. Director: Jean Renoir. Stars Zachary Scott, Betty Field and J. Carrol Naish. Nature decides to go against a family of cotton pickers after they decide to get their own ground.

After reading an newspaper advertisement in the London Times about touring Canada, an elderly Englishman decides to do just that. Following his long walk across the Atlantic Ocean, Keaton travels along the Canadian National Railway tracks on a railway motorcar (speeder), performing a few stunts reminiscent of those in his younger days.

Father hires a woman to lure his son away from a gold digger.

On the outskirts of town, in a traditional house, Aicha, a 26-year-old woman, leads a monotonous lifestyle. During the day, she does household chores and cares for her elderly mother who is sick and bedridden. In the evening, Aicha leaves home and waits to cross the path of some lorry driver.

Paris, the capital of the lonely. A day in the life of three characters: a teenager suspended from school, an Indian immigrant abused by his employer and a Czech student who misses home. Armel Houstiou's film, with barely no dialogues or narration, follows three individuals who are disconnected from the world that surrounds them focusing on their gestures and alienation.

Jörn Staeger a German cinematographer, director, writer made a short experimental film which is a tribute to the symbiotic relationship between human and bicycle. Velo Mystery was presented at numerous festivals including Hamburg, Dhaka, Madrid and Montenegro.

Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare.

A young couple inherits a debt-ridden old movie theater, appropriately nicknamed "The Flea Pit", and the three eccentric senior citizens who work there.

Paul receives an emotional message from Claire. He can hear the deep sadness behind her words and believes she might commit suicide…

A romance novelist appoints a would-be writer as his secretary. Although she is initially dismayed by his work ethic and playboy attitude, they begin to fall in love.

Dreaming about the Wild West in the 1970s in Eastern Europe is not enough…

Andy Hardy goes to college after returning from World War II. He is in love with Kay Wilson this time.

Hoping to impress a pretty girl he's after, a playboy poses as a newspaperman and goes after a big story.

Sergio, a 26-year-old autistic male is blind and has never seen a smile. He does, however, give everybody a sincere smile every day. A documentary based on the amazing story encapsulated by Sergio Aznarez Rosado's life.

A travelling artist, painter and filmmaker has a centenarian neighbour. The relationship between this man in his forties and the solitary old lady with a wicked sense of humour gradually becomes a kind of elective kinship. Their discussions, interrupted and picked up again over the years, form the fabric of this personal, tender and surprising film.

A clumsy young man nurtures a plant and discovers that it's a bloodthirsty plant, forcing him to kill to feed it.

In a busy and chaotic city, we met Juan, a young isolated from society, with a deep need to recover the meaning of his own life. Juan goes out to encounter the city, that he lives differently, building a parallel reality, that helps him escape the tedium of the city and finally find Ana

An undercover agent for the government is sent to round up a gang of counterfeiters operating near the Mexican border.

Ted Hayden impersonates a wanted man and joins Gentry's gang only to learn later that Gentry was the one who killed his father. He saves Virginia Winters' dad's ranch from Gentry and also rescues his long-lost brother Spud.

A deaf boxer is exploited by a gold-digging blonde.

WWII Burma... Six paratroopers undertake an extremely dangerous mission against the Japanese. It will ultimately cost them their lives, except for one "lucky" survivor.

In 2020, after the colonization of the moon, the spaceships Vega, Sirius and Capella are launched from Lunar Station 7.

A cabal of American industrialists, all fifth-columnists intent on sabotaging the war effort, are methodically murdered by the malevolent Monsieur Colomb.

Young Bolivian Juana gets a job as a sewer in the neighboring country Argentina, wherefore she has to leave her husband and her baby-son. After arriving in Buenos Aires, the promised factory turns out to be a prison. Nominated to the European Film Awards 2010.

1952. Starring Mark Stevens & Angela Lansbury. During the war of 1812, the U.S., in need of gold, arranges to borrow it from France. A young Captain must navigate through the British blockade.

Miguel, a 27th young man, woke up one morning with the job of processing his death father intestate succession certificate. When he arrive to the registration office, the process and their public servers show him that the bureaucracy it seems like a joke, but isn't, putting him in a labyrinth of papers and windows.

A fishing day between a son, a father and a grandfather. They are speaking about an absent mother, who becomes present. A call is received.

Police lieutenant Sam Carson investigates a political murder after the victim is dumped at the door of police headquarters.

After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before they strike again.

Ali learns through medical documents the sudden recurrence of his son's incurable genetic disorder. Deciding to hide the matter from the rest of the family, he finds himself helpless and starts behaving strangely.

A unfaithful wife plots with her lover to kill her husband, but the lover is accidentally killed instead. The husband stays in hiding, and lets his wife be charged with conspiracy.

Ed decides to leave his life in Barcelona to take a trip to the United States to follow his childhood dream of becoming a filmmaker there. Close to turning 40, and with his wedding just around the corner, he realizes that his life has not worked out as he had planned. An identity crisis begins which makes him leave everything and try to make his childhood dream —the American dream— come true. With the script of a film he wrote a few years ago under his arm, and the idea of trying to make the project a reality in the United States, Ed embarks on a road trip from New York to Hollywood, on which he meets diverse characters with whom he reflects upon the pros and cons of following our dreams, while at the same time he tries to achieve his and seeks a more precise definition of happiness.

During the final months of WW2, a lonely German Baroness hides an attractive American airman in her mansion for long time without telling him the war has been over for almost five years.

Set in 1990's England, Daniel is an 8 year old boy who dreams of being an Ice Cream Man. Daniel takes us on a short journey of what it is to be an Ice Cream Man and how he will one day be one.

A financier from New York rules his numerous family, consisting of his wife and his four sons, with the meticulousness of a bookkeeper.

A publicity stunt staged on a train known as the Broadway Limited creates problems because of an unknown baby that was part of the stunt.

In a not-too-distant future only a few homo sapiens are left. Struggling for survival they are forced to live from hunting the last remaining animals in the peripheral ruins of an advanced human civilization. But they are unaware of being stalked themselves by a mysterious scanner. A science-fiction story about hunting and being hunted, about extinction and survival, about dogs - and men.

An English village is occupied by disguised German paratroopers as an advance post for a planned invasion.

A seriously ill woman allows a friend to give her a complete make over wich will fundamentally change her day.

Bernard and Claire Boiko won enough money on TV game shows to escape debt and rebuild their lives. From Tic-Tac-Dough in 1956 to Jeopardy in 1967 to Trivial Pursuit in 1993, they competed on national television 28 times -- probably the longest-running record of individual TV game show appearances by husband and wife in the world. Daughter Patricia melds 10 different TV game shows and a snappy soundtrack with vivid motion graphics and vintage footage to paint an intimate portrait of her quirky parents, paradigms of 20th century family life. Yet -- as their poignant romance and ribald experiences reveal the fascinating historical context of their times -- the winning couple also come to be seen as curiously-relatable outsiders to mainstream culture. Themes of love, hardship, and achievement add emotional weight to Bernard's parting words, 'If it's a lucky life, it's mine.' Quick cash and fabulous prizes, the thrill of winning and the lasting joy of this different family make this a wonderful story of dreams unexpectedly fulfilled.

During an unexpected and life-changing encounter at the Battle of Belleau Wood in 1918, two soldiers from different sides must choose between their country and their beliefs.

The film is about two 10-year-old boys, who live in the same building but it is set in 1982, and the present day.

Inale is the beautiful daughter of the great King Oche, of the Idoma people in Idomaland, Nigeria. Her beloved Odeh must win the wrestling tournament to win her hand in marriage. A stranger appears, that challenges not only the tradition of the village but the strength of Odeh and Inale's true love.

This is a wonderful story of a matchmaking event in Italy. Young men and women are escorted to a midsummer dance. There is a man who coordinates the proper arrangements and the mountain villages send their youth.

Abbott & Costello search for diamonds in Africa, along the way meeting a visually-impaired gunner, a hungry lion, and a tribe of cannibals...

An intrepid dog comes to the rescue when a boy's life is put at risk by the greed inflamed by a gold strike.

Rodrigo hasn't worked in eight years. He'll be 47 soon.

In 1975 Sarah was pulled out from a Catholic orphanage in Belgium and moved by her father to his native village in the Atlas mountains of Morocco where she had to face a radically different life to the one she had been used to. The story then follows an older Sarah as she fights hunger and poverty before discovering that she can make money by knitting and selling clothes.

Three-part mystery drama based on Agatha Christie's novel. Cut down to half their original number, the surviving guests of Soldier Island are in danger of losing their minds. With the likelihood of survival rapidly diminishing, they must turn to one another for comfort and protection, but trust is in short supply.

Romance and suspense ensue in Paris as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Who can she trust?

Parole officers fight gangsters trying to break into system.

An 8 year old Bolivian boy gets lost on the streets of La Paz, hundreds of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before he sets out in an emotive journey to find his lost father.

The beautiful Anna Neagle stars as a circus performer who falls in love with a rich car dealer's son, against her family's wishes. Features some spirited dance numbers with Ray Bolger.

Godfrey (William Powell) is "forgotten man" who is hired by a young, wealthy eccentric (Lombard) as the family's new butler. Godfey brings sanity a dose of reality to this spoiled rich family.

Sociopath criminal masterminds armored car robbery.

Unconventional western about the life of legendary outlaw Billy the Kid.

In spite of prejudices impressed on them growing up, Lee (70s, Caucasian) and Ben (70s, African American) strike up a charming love affair over the course of an evening to discover love conquers all.

The unhistorical adventures of pirate Captain Kidd revolve around treasure and treachery.

A naive young girl, looking to escape from a bad family situation, falls in love with a man who turns out to be a cad, and leads her down the road to ruin.

When a man looks at the photo strip he just took of himself in a photo booth, he cannot believe what he sees.

In the city of Suddenly, three gangsters trap the Benson family in their own house, on the top of a hill nearby the railroad station, with the intention of killing the president of the USA.

In 1999 a family with three children emigrated to Switzerland during the NATO bombing in Serbia. After years of living in their new homeland, the family faces the prospects of deportation. Desperate to stay, Rasim - the father of the family and an ex- music teacher - masterminds the making of an Albanian Dance Troupe in order to gather signatures of support from the community.

Parysia is the rage of Paris. She has a daughter, secretly engaged to Andre, and the boy's aristocratic father objects to the alliance because of Margaret's mother being a revue artist. Director Ewald Andre Dupont took almost a year to make Moulin Rouge at a production cost of $500,000, a huge amount for 1928.

A man learns he will inherit a fortune if he marries by 7 p.m. that same day.

A light and humorous exploration of one couple's marital problems.

Pedro decides to maintain his daily routine, in spite of some adversities which are causing him some instability. These new events will force him to venture towards anuncertain future

A theatre critic (Dave O'Brien) teams up with a cop (Jack Mulhall) to investigate the murder of a Broadway actor.

A prostitute newly arrived in the South Pacific finds herself at odds with a stern missionary determined to save her soul.

After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before they strike again.

A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for year without touching his inheritance.

Photographer turns private eye, gets in trouble.

Crime Drama. Stars Mickey Rooney, Jeanne Cagney & Barbara Bates. After borrowing money, a mechanic encounters ever more devastating situations that lead him to crime.

Young Sherry Williams dreams of having a singing career, and she idolizes her older sister Josephine, who has gone to New York to perform on the stage. When Sherry is distraught just before...

The true story of Carlson's Raiders and their World War II attack on Makin Island.

When a cute Welsh terrier follows Bill Denny home, little does he know that all gangland has its eye on that dog.

A town's corrupt officials think a fool is actually an investigator in disguise.

1952. Starring Mark Stevens & Angela Lansbury. During the war of 1812, the U.S., in need of gold, arranges to borrow it from France. A young Captain must navigate through the British blockade.

Two people who have never had a relationship before are on their first date together. Both long passionately for a relationship, but this first date is a nuisance for both of them. They try, they really do, but one accident after another occurs and nothing goes according to their expectations.

Father of the bride faces becoming a grandfather.

Dreaming about the Wild West in the 1970s in Eastern Europe is not enough…

Set in post-war Japan, The Lady of Musashino tells the story of Michiko, a disillusioned young woman trapped in a loveless marriage. She confides in her younger cousin, Tsutomo, and the two become close.

A travelling artist, painter and filmmaker has a centenarian neighbour. The relationship between this man in his forties and the solitary old lady with a wicked sense of humour gradually becomes a kind of elective kinship. Their discussions, interrupted and picked up again over the years, form the fabric of this personal, tender and surprising film.

A pregnant girl and her childhood friend leave the city to seek help. That takes them on an unexpected coming of age journey of self-discovery during which they reflect on their lives and are faced with decisions that will determine their future.

Hoping to impress a pretty girl he's after, a playboy poses as a newspaperman and goes after a big story.

A Mexican documentary about the film "Nazarín" directed by Luis Buñuel in Mexico in 1959. A trip down memory lane featuring photographs taken by Buñuel in the film scouting and photographs taken during the filming by Manuel Alvarez Bravo.

Jaume, who was once a passionate young man, has become a disillusioned middle-aged man who has lost his desire to write and can't remember the last time he fell in love. On another boring summer day in Barcelona, he receives a surprise visit from Elisabeth, a romantic interest from the past. The encounter brings back the Jaume of yesterday, turning his monotonous life upside down.

Musical. Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey play themselves in this rise and rise story of the fabulous Dorsey brothers.

Luca is visiting his father in Sweden for the winter break but there is an underlying tension to the festivities. An award-winning family drama from Sebastian Johansson-Micci.

An evil gunslinging midget comes to terrorize the good little people of Tiny Town. The townspeople organize to defeat him, and zany antics ensue.

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child.

This is a wonderful story of a matchmaking event in Italy. Young men and women are escorted to a midsummer dance. There is a man who coordinates the proper arrangements and the mountain villages send their youth.

Scott Warrington and his hired detective, Larry Adams, arrive at an old mansion in the middle of a Louisiana swamp to meet his brother-in-law, Dr. Max von Altermann shortly after the death ...

Ruthless woman has her dark past of a concealed murder return.

A financier from New York rules his numerous family, consisting of his wife and his four sons, with the meticulousness of a bookkeeper.

Paul receives an emotional message from Claire. He can hear the deep sadness behind her words and believes she might commit suicide…

It's 3 AM.A boy and a girl are wandering in the city.They are looking for a hospital to cure the girl, but it is much harder than they thought.

Mourning the death of her father, Giulia is contacted by him from the other dimension.

Sometimes the maid of honor not only takes care of the flower's color in the wedding.

An introvert city teenager is sent to his father's limber ranch. While trying to figure out his place as the son of the boss he finds himself in a world packed with naturalized violence.

Two friends meet in a bar. Later that night, one friend's flirtatious wife is reportedly in an accident. The other friend doesn't feel well. What's come over him?

An weird but witty old woman is forced to deal with an ambiguous future after her country, family and the entire system of values are ruined. She is trying to solve her existential problems catching d trying to sell a rewarded war criminal as he was a rabbit in a wood. The only thing she did not know if he is really him.

Shot in his hometown of Fort McMurray before it was ravaged by wildfires, Cody Bown's drama draws on real-life events to capture snapshots of a community teetering on a precipice and a collection of twenty somethings whose seemingly directionless lives have intersected.

A down and out stand-up comedian finds refuge at Hotel Bleu, forging an off-beat partnership with a charismatic trumpet player half her age.

"It was an era, it was the start of a new vision" says Amha Eshete, the first Ethiopian music producer back in the Golden Age, the days of Swingin' Addis. The album releases that have crossed Ethiopian borders are mainly recordings from the 50's to the 80's, however, the contemporary music scene from Addis remains, bar a few exceptions, unknown to the rest of the world. Is Addis still swinging as it used to? Music in Addis is present in actions and sounds spread out on differentiated spaces, it is an expression of the everyday urban life and its processes of transformation and adaptation in the city. New Voices In An Old Flower explores this vitality of music looking at the plurality of the city and its people. Drifting in unplanned tours through the urban landscape of contemporary Addis Ababa, this film is shaped by encounters, dialogues and collaborations with musicians and other inhabitants of the city.

Narges, a public toilet cleaner, has to wait for 5 minutes to see what the result of her pregnancy test is. In this 5 minutes, she dives in her dream. The dream that makes her separate from reality.

Copenhagen. A police station. A foreign woman, wearing a burqa, is there with her young son to file a complaint. Yet, it seems the translator is not willing to report what she is telling.

A travelling artist, painter and filmmaker has a centenarian neighbour. The relationship between this man in his forties and the solitary old lady with a wicked sense of humour gradually becomes a kind of elective kinship. Their discussions, interrupted and picked up again over the years, form the fabric of this personal, tender and surprising film.

In 1975 Sarah was pulled out from a Catholic orphanage in Belgium and moved by her father to his native village in the Atlas mountains of Morocco where she had to face a radically different life to the one she had been used to. The story then follows an older Sarah as she fights hunger and poverty before discovering that she can make money by knitting and selling clothes.

A musical documentary, presenting the contemporary and historical rhythms of Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. Sounds, characteristic for this part of Africa, come from the mountains and desert regions, from the wilderness and the city. During almost an hour and a half of music travel, the viewer has the opportunity to get to know the rich cultural heritage of Ethiopia.

Abbott & Costello search for diamonds in Africa, along the way meeting a visually-impaired gunner, a hungry lion, and a tribe of cannibals...

Truck drivers Steve Hackett and Bill Purvis are fired from their jobs with the West Coast Trucking company for not using second-gear going down steep grades.

When looking for alternative energy sources, the Japanese scientist Sekai tragically dies. Twenty years later the Brazilian mathematician Euclides continues his research. The lack of an essential component won't allow a breakthrough. Only AUN, Sekai's son, seems to hold the key to protect mankind from self-destruction. In the aftermath of the nuclear tragedy in Fukushima the film appears like a prophecy. AUN's dream-like images, complemented by music from Christian Fennesz and Ryuichi Sakamoto, lead into a fantastic and exciting world.

When a cute Welsh terrier follows Bill Denny home, little does he know that all gangland has its eye on that dog.

Burlesque star (Blaine) makes it in the big time.

Five thirty-something men in as many separate segments struggle to grapple with the relentless absurdity of their respective existences.

A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.

Police lieutenant Sam Carson investigates a political murder after the victim is dumped at the door of police headquarters.

Young Sherry Williams dreams of having a singing career, and she idolizes her older sister Josephine, who has gone to New York to perform on the stage. When Sherry is distraught just before...

Vincent has followed the woman he loves to New York. But they're not getting along anymore. Stubborn, he's going to try to do everything to get her back.

Mother has just got out of prison and wants to get revenge on the biker gang that put him there. He teams up with his old gang "The Angels" and they head to the desert to get even.

Ali learns through medical documents the sudden recurrence of his son's incurable genetic disorder. Deciding to hide the matter from the rest of the family, he finds himself helpless and starts behaving strangely.

Three-part mystery drama based on Agatha Christie's novel. Cut down to half their original number, the surviving guests of Soldier Island are in danger of losing their minds. With the likelihood of survival rapidly diminishing, they must turn to one another for comfort and protection, but trust is in short supply.

In the depths of the Sierra of Guerrero in Mexico, after the disappearance of the 43 students, we find the reaction of wounded civil society to seek an answer to the situation of abuse of authority mixed with poverty.

When 14-year-old Paul's moped disappears his parents don't realize how much the vehicle means to the boy. Paul used to ride the moped all the time even if he had to cut school. The boy chases the their, also a teenager who works in a mechanic shop. An unexpected relationship develops between the two teenagers.

After reading an newspaper advertisement in the London Times about touring Canada, an elderly Englishman decides to do just that. Following his long walk across the Atlantic Ocean, Keaton travels along the Canadian National Railway tracks on a railway motorcar (speeder), performing a few stunts reminiscent of those in his younger days.

A man leaves a woman, a woman leaves a man. Both meet for a short while. Great changes await them at the end of this journey.

Crime Drama. Stars Mickey Rooney, Jeanne Cagney & Barbara Bates. After borrowing money, a mechanic encounters ever more devastating situations that lead him to crime.

A publicity stunt staged on a train known as the Broadway Limited creates problems because of an unknown baby that was part of the stunt.

Young Bolivian Juana gets a job as a sewer in the neighboring country Argentina, wherefore she has to leave her husband and her baby-son. After arriving in Buenos Aires, the promised factory turns out to be a prison. Nominated to the European Film Awards 2010.

Parysia is the rage of Paris. She has a daughter, secretly engaged to Andre, and the boy's aristocratic father objects to the alliance because of Margaret's mother being a revue artist. Director Ewald Andre Dupont took almost a year to make Moulin Rouge at a production cost of $500,000, a huge amount for 1928.

In 1700s New York, a Boston artist working in the remote Fort Alden is torn between his love for 2 women and thrown into the middle of a Mohawk-Iroquois-American war.

Murdered young women have finger severed off.

A woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.

80-year-old retiree Arthur lives in a modest council home in Vienna. For quite some time he has lovingly been caring for his seriously ill wife Martha, with only female nurses assisting him. As he finds Fabiu, the new male hungarian care worker, on his doorstep, his routine is broken. But soon the two men become closer and inside Arthur feelings of desire and suppressed longing start to rise.

An 80-year-old actress returns to the small Chilean town of her youth to fulfill her father's dream of creating a TV channel in a place which has never known television.

WWII Burma... Six paratroopers undertake an extremely dangerous mission against the Japanese. It will ultimately cost them their lives, except for one "lucky" survivor.