Cinico tv

“Being born in Palermo is a kind of punishment, but I’ve never left because it would feel like betrayal. Moreover, I can’t imagine Cinico Tv in any other place in the world.” To Franco Maresco, a brilliant, solitary director from Palermo, his city was the stage of a surreal comedy of rampant decay just as the Mafia was renegotiating the division of power and influence in the emerging Second Republic. Ruins, trash, scraps, underwear, flatulence and burping raided the TV screen at dinnertime in Italian homes in the spring of 1992, sparking hostile cultural debates about the limits of trash and the aesthetics of ugliness, the sense of post-history and post-humanity

How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio

All The Saints

As every year, the celebration of All Saints Day brings Polish families together at the graves of their loved ones. On this special day Maria, 80-year-old widow, visits the graveyard with her son, his wife and their children.

Robert Guerrero vs. Yoshihiro Kamegai

Robert Guerrero takes on Yoshihiro Kamegai in his first fight in over a year, Gary Russell takes on Vasyl Lomachenko in a match pitting two potential superstars against one another, and Devon Alexander looks to bounce back from defeat against the always rugged Jesus Soto-Karass.

Benabar - Basique, le concert

Bogotá 2016

Three scripts, each one with independent storylines, have in common a vision of the Colombian capital in 2016.

Bizarre Love Triangle

Stock and live footage edited with music to showcase societal culture. While also directly referencing Robert Longo’s "Men in the Cities" series of photographs.

Bitter

Four friends become unlikely bystanders to an incident of domestic violence. What will they do?

Ghjustizia - La Brise de mer, histoire d'un clan qui a mis la Corse en coupe réglée

Terrolun and Lunlun

After a tragic accident, Terrolun becomes a shut-in, living in his parent's garage where he fixes mechanical items. When Lunlun, a hearing-impaired high school student brings him something to repair, they strike up a friendship.

Gumrah

Roshni Chadha makes her living, singing in various places and this makes her the breadwinner of her home. She soon gets to meet the handsome and wealthy Rahul Malhotra, who finds out that she can actually sing professionally and he helps her to attain this goal, which soon became a success and Roshni falls in love with Rahul and finds out that he has the same feelings for her. On a foreign trip, Roshni is arrested by the police for having in her possession cocaine, Rahul disappears leaving Roshni in hot-soup and now she must prepare to undergo her prison terms as there is no one to help her.

Fade to Black

In this meditation on contemporary race relations, two black men discuss in voiceover certain “casual” events in life and cinema that are unnoticed or discounted by whites—gestures, hesitations, stares, off-the-cuff remarks, jokes—details of an ideology of repressed racism.

Coach at Rural Post Office, U.S.P.O.

A single man waits by the roadside while nearby we see the rears of four horses, their swishing tails providing the only on-screen action. Then a stagecoach - a real old stagecoach, mind, like out of a John Wayne western - arrives with four men sat atop it.

The Tree

A man, a child, two wars, a river, a tree. A man and a child meet under a tree on a river bank, sharing the same memory and a secret. They find in each other the serenity, the silence and the time they lost in the flowing water of the river.

Google Me

Jim Killeen googled his own name and made a documentary about the men with whom he shares it.

The Hunt

A woman plots her revenge after being duped by a slick, ruthless man who impregnates her and tries to bail her out of marriage.