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From the prison that currently houses him, Jafar Panahi talks to us about an Iran that knows no peace in No Bears, which sees him in a quasi-autobiography interpretation. Our Ties also sees director Roschdy Zem starring as himself, as does talented pianist Tymoteusz Bies in Bread and Salt, the latter directed by Damian Kocur.
Rounding up the Italian army of four is Susanna Nicchiarelli’s third portrait of historical female figures: Chiara, about the life of Clare of Assisi. Out of competition is Oliver Stone’s latest work, Nuclear. The Venice Days programme end with Steve Buscemi’s The Listener. The least exhausted of you after our amazing yearly film marathon may be interested in the six episodes of Copenhagen Cowboy, by Nicolas Winding Refn. The final screening of the 79th Venice Film Festival will be a dark thriller/film noir by Francesco Carrozzini: The Hanging Sun, starring Alessandro Borghi, Peter Mullan, and beautiful Norwegian summer.
Two stories, running parallel to one another, show social and cultural opposition in modern Iran. Panahi stars himself as a director who faces the opposition of the Iranian village bordering Turkey where he and his crew are filming. The local populace merely tolerate their pre...
Inspired by his own life, Roschdy Zem directs and stars in a drama on family relationships, a mix of irony and comedy. Moussa is a kind young man who has always been present for his extended family, unlike his brother Ryadh (Roschdy Zem), a famous TV personality whom everybody...
Tymek is a young, talented student at the Warsaw Conservatory. He travels back to his hometown in the countryside for a vacation. Back home, time seems to have stopped – the only place to go in his neighbourhood is a kebab shop that opened recently. In a short time, Tymek wi...
Assisi, central Italy, year 1211. Chiara (Margherita Mazzucco, My Brilliant Friend) is barely eighteen when one night, she leaves her family home and all her comforts to meet his friend, Francis (Andrea Carpenzano). For Chiara, the founder of the Poor Clares orders, t...
Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project, Little Boy and Fat Man, the tragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Chernobyl are but a few historical landmarks of nuclear power history. In over two hours of accurate historical reconstruction, Oliver Stone traces a...
Inspired by Jo Nesbø’s novel Midnight Sun, this noir thriller is set in the Norwegian summer, between past and present. John (Alessandro Borghi), is running from his father, a powerful mob boss whom he betrayed. After finding shelter in a forest close to a remote v...
Perversion and instinct enclosed in the creative act push director Winding Refn to launch a new six-episode series set in his hometown of Copenhagen. A tragic trip awaits the audience, who will follow protagonist Miu: an immersion in the several crime rings of Copenhagen, from...
