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I’m Not Scared

  In a small town in Italy in 1978, 9-year-old Michele (Giuseppe Cristiano) finds Fillipo (Mattia Di Perro), seemingly dead in a deep hole in the ground, while on a Read More

The Postman

  When exiled Cuban poet Pablo Neruda (Philippe Noiret) arrives on a tiny Italian isle, there’s so much new mail that Mario (Massimo Troisi), an unemployed, uneducated layabout, is hired Read More

The Profession of Arms

  The history of the first victim of modern artillery and its moving agony, amidst conspiracies and betrayals of the powerful. Life and death of Giovanni De’ Medici, a young Read More

Welcome to the South

  Overwhelmed by his wife, a Northern Italy postal worker feigns a disability to request a transfer to Milan and when he’s unmasked is sent for two years to a Read More

Acqua e sapone

  An Italian-born actress turned stage mother brings her daughter Sandy to Rome for three months’ work as a supermodel. Sandy, who’s between “soap and water” and womanhood, needs a Read More

Yellow Earth

  ‘Yellow Earth’ focuses on the story of a communist soldier who is sent to the countryside to collect folk songs for the Communist Revolution. There he stays with a Read More

Together

  Liu Cheng (Liu Peiqi) is a widowed cook making his living in a small southern town in China. His thirteen-year-old son, Liu Xiaochun (Tang Yun), is a violin prodigy. Read More

Woman Demon Human

  The fictional life and career of a famous actress in Chinese opera, a woman who goes against tradition by specializing in playing male roles, especially that of Zhang Kui, Read More

Unknown Pleasures

  Unknown Pleasures follows three disaffected, aimless young people in the industrial city of Datong in China’s Shanxi province throughout 2001. Nineteen-year-old Bin Bin (Zhao Weiwei) lives with his mother, Read More

To Live

  Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry. Addicted to gambling, Fugui loses everything. In the years that follow Read More