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Play

  As Chilean writer-director Alicia Scherson’s debut feature, the psychodrama Play explores the ramifications of an infatuation that threatens to erupt into full-blown obsession. It unfolds in Santiago, Chile, where Read More

The Death of Pinochet

  On December 10, 2006, General Pinochet dies unexpectedly in Santiago’s Military Hospital. For 24 hours, his death reawakens the political divisions that marked Chile’s recent history with death and Read More

Romelia’s Secret

  An elderly woman (Romelia), her daughter and her grandchildren take a few days on holiday to visit a small town outside the city. The town makes Romelia melancholy and Read More

Snow White

  A band of bullfighting dwarfs save the life of a young woman with amnesia. They end up taking her under their wing when they find out that she has Read More

Nada

  It is Barcelona, in the forties. Young Andrea comes to town to start college in the midst of an oppressive environment and extreme poverty. She’s staying at her aunt Read More

We Want Roses Too

  This stunning visual masterpiece is an exuberant testament to the resolve of women of the ’60s and ’70s sexual revolution and feminist movement in Italy. Acclaimed director Alina Marazzi Read More

Todo modo

  Party leader and power broker Aldo Moro, holed up with his cronies and rivals at a monastic retreat where they plot their political fortunes while being led by a Read More

The Decameron

  An adaptation of nine stories from Bocaccio’s “Decameron”: Segment 1: A young man from Perugia is swindled twice in Naples, but ends up rich; Segment 2: A man poses Read More

Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man

  The son of the owner of a large Italian cheese factory is kidnapped, but as the factory is on the verge of bankruptcy the owner hatches a plan to Read More

Three Brothers

  In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which he risks assassination; Read More