It’s the summer holidays and a young boy has been left to amuse himself up in the room up at the top of their very tall house. A series of people keep coming to the door and he’s the one who has to fend them off, whilst his mother is working in her study. Each character brings an ideology and a new and confusing notions about life and death. The last visitor brings such a strong message that it just cannot be ignored, and is a call to action. The young lad takes the new visitor with him and goes in search of some answers from all of these questions the day and it’s visitors have brought him.
Categorie: Awards 2021
ROCK OUT
Activist and atheist all his life, Bob though asked to be burry religiously, which disrupts a lot his three children Emilie, Lucien and Benoît, but delights his sister Nicole. How to say goodbye with codes that aren’t yours ? How to share mourning ? How to share the deceased ?
NIKOLA TESLA, THE MAN FROM THE FUTURE
New York, 1888. The visionary inventor Nikola Tesla, who migrated to USA in search of luck, is about to deliver his first landmark lecture at the American Institute of Electric Engineers, to present his innovative Alternating Current motor system. Before the show, the rich businessman George Westinghouse meets Tesla in the backstage, offering him a huge amount of money to buy his AC patent, because he believes that it will change the world. The two have a deep and quantic confront but Tesla doesn’t seem to be interested in money. Although during the demonstraiton, something magical and unexpected happens that will mark a big change in our modern World forever. Is Nikola Tesla just an magician or a visionary genius?
THE FLYING FISH
The journey of a flying fish marks the beginning of the transition to a new era.
THE CALL
Benoît, 50, is a police lieutenant wounded by the disappearance of his wife, Lise. Unable to perform his grief, he sees his physical and mental health decline when she mysteriously surface again years later. Then, Benoît begins to undergo a strange transformation.
THE INVISIBLE MOTHER
When queer stoner Marcy returns to her grandparents’ home to help care for her mentally declining grandmother, she discovers they are being terrorized by a malevolent force from a Victorian post-mortem photograph.
FREE LIBERI
Five elderly guests of the Opera Don Guanella retirement home in Rome, bored by daily life and disappointed by the separation of their dearest affections, decide to escape to Puglia to realize the dream of their lives: they are Rocco (Ivano Marescotti), a failed trader, his brother Luchino (Enzo Salvi), an obsessive-compulsive cook, Antonio (Babak Karimi), a longtime ex-captain, Erica (Corinne Clery), a former cardiopathic singer, and Mirna (Sandra Milo), who arrived in Italy from Serbia at the outbreak of the Yugoslav wars. Enamored by the adventure Mirna is about to undertake to find the much sought-after Dragomir (Antonio Catania), her old love believed dead but actually hidden for decades in Salento, the four of them join the journey. They are certain that their lives will change for the better once they meet the powerful criminal. Their personal stories will alternate in a succession of events between passion and adventure, in a Salento that will be the setting for their emotions. Will our friends be able to realize their dreams?
I’M SINNER
Over ten million female fetuses were aborted in the last two decades after prenatal gender checks in India. Every day there are many female infanticides committed by various methods. According to India’s Government in 2016, 2000+ girls are killed every day in India. Due to this, there is an alarming sex-ratio imbalance rising between male and females in India. This story is about a father and his family that desperately want to raise a son, but had four daughters instead. It also follows the daughters’ journey as they try to grasp why their father doesn’t love them. Through a series of events, the father realizes his mistakes, recognizes his duty to raise them, and becomes a very proud father.The film also enlightens the Indian society by making them realize that this social injustice and discrimination will not stop until we take a stand to speak up collectively. Our film tagline is, “Tolerating injustice is a greater sin than inflicting.”
KATHERINE OF SINAI
Historical movie about St. Katherine of Mount Sinai, Egypt, who was put to death on a wheel of spikes because of her refusal to worship Rome’s pagan gods. With Peter O’Toole, Edward Fox, Brian Blessed, Steven Berkoff and Nicole Keniheart (who plays Katherine). The ‘Katherine wheel firework depicts how Katherine met her death.
THE DOOR ON THE DARK
Marco and Claudia are a long-standing couple in crisis. They decide to go and live in a new apartment, hoping to improve their relationship. But Marco is almost convinced that his woman has betrayed him, and does everything to prove his thesis. The house they are in is very special. And there is a blue door that, according to the owner, can not be opened for any reason. Claudia claims that there is something behind that door, or even someone. Marco instead is a rational man, who struggles to believe in the existence of supernatural entities. Unfortunately for them, behind that door hides something much bigger than what they could imagine.