- Synopsis At Palmi, in Calabria, a little girl is chosen for the Feast of the Varia to climb on a sacred cart seventeen metres high and represent the Assumption of the Virgin. The documentary follows the three little girls competing for this role, exploring the contrast between the sacred and the profane. COMMENTARY …
- A portrait of workers in exile. An empathetic encounter with people who have lost their past and their future, locked in the recurring present. ZIAD KALTHOUM creates an essay documentary of Syrian construction workers building new skyscrapers in Beirut on the ruins caused by the Lebanese civil war. At the same time the…
- A “double bill” of two Russian operatic masterpieces. Legendary bass Evgeny Nesterenko stars in the title role of Aleko (1892), an early work of Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), written the composer was still a student at the Moscow Conser…