Aida
The 2021 edition of the Macerata Opera Festival was inaugurated with the same opera chosen in 1921 by Count Pier Alberto Conti. At that time, the Sferisterio, formerly a stadium for an ancient ball game, was turned into
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The 2021 edition of the Macerata Opera Festival was inaugurated with the same opera chosen in 1921 by Count Pier Alberto Conti. At that time, the Sferisterio, formerly a stadium for an ancient ball game, was turned into
Returning home to Corsica to see her brother and grieve a recent loss, a woman considers the consequences of her choices, in this uncommonly graceful short by Elisa Gilmour.
In early 1980s East Berlin, painter Heiko Zolchow and actor Dirk Nawrocki fall in love. Seeking freedom, they leave the GDR for West Berlin in 1984. There, they immerse themselves in the theater scene and nightlife, form
40 years after the beginning of the AIDS pandemic, seven artists and an activist doctor, all of them living with HIV, offer new images and perspectives to deal with serophobia in Brazil.
A story of fragility, sexuality, monstrosities and geographical confusions. Everything, everywhere is the slogan of the nineties, a confusion of bodies, concepts and strategies, a kind of out of joint situation for the s
Photographer Jürgen Baldiga (1959-1993) and filmmaker Michael Brynntrup, - privat discourses and personal investigations of how to deal with images of life and death.
Two men and a woman move around naked in a neutral space.
The movie is divided in 4 sections. The 1st one is about the 70s, when Italian society discovered the "sex, drugs and rock'n roll" culture. Many witnesses are interviewed about their own experiences as drug addicts or se
Artur Żmijewski’s video Ja i AIDS (eng. Me and AIDS) (1996) emphasizes the role of the body as an expressive medium. In the film, a woman and two men (one of them is Artur Żmijewski) engage in a painful exchange: they re
The film has two parallel narrative lines. The first which follows the fate of a Slovenian "rebel without a cause" from the provinces, rocker and world traveler who contracted HIV in Africa. In the second line, in paral
AnOther Love Story was produced to dispel the myths around HIV & AIDS for women in general, lesbians in particular. The video illustrates how relationships are affected when one or both partners must begin to grapple wit
During 1963 summer vacation in Croatia, Peter met the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. Months after their first meeting, he struggled to write her a letter. Once he overcame the fear, he sent the first letter.
Somewhere, amid a tangle of borders, a refugee camp. People trapped in a situation that becomes more absurd every day, trying to live a human existence. We don't see their faces. We don't see the places they talk about.
Acclaimed directors Mira Nair, Santosh Sivan, Vishal Bhardwaj and Farhan Akhtar examine the AIDS crisis in India with four short films that dispel common myths and illustrate how the disease affects ordinary people. A cl
In a series of intimate talks, Peter S., the subject of the documentary, reflects with insight and reverence on dying, loving and living with the disease that has altered the course of our lives. I'm Still Alive! is a te
Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp. As an insid
A poignant, sometimes sad, sometimes painful, sometimes humorous, often absurd story of a multiple journey: the journey of loss as the director’s mother Aida struggled with losing herself to Alzheimer’s disease, but find
1943: Nine-year-old Eero whose father is killed during the war is brought to Sweden to foster parents to his protection like thousands of other Finnish children. Eero feels lost, particularly as his foster mother Signe b
The film tells the story of classic black singing against the background of black emancipation in politics and society. This story stretches from the first successes of the bass Paul Robeson, who all his life regarded hi
Verdi's opera was filmed during a performance at the Theatre Antique (The Roman Theater) in Orange, France in July 1976. This highly lauded production is marvelously translated to the screen by Pierre Jourdan. The story