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Vinilici

Director: Fulvio Iannucci

Category: Feature

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2018

Country: Italy

Runtime: 1 hour 10 minutes

Production Budget: --

Exactly seventy years after the birth of the vinyl record, "Vinilici - perché il vinile ama la musica" is the first completely Italian film dedicated to this wonderful support. The docufilm starts from Naples, the original capital of music and disc in Italy, and it is no coincidence: the Phono type Record, founded in Naples at the beginning of the '900 is among the first record companies in the world to have an independent factory for the manufacture of disks.

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Alganesh

Director: Lia Beltrami, Marianna Beltrami

Category: Feature

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2018

Country: Italy

Runtime: 1 hour

Production Budget: --

'I didn't believe it until I saw it'. A sign on a wall says this, as a hundred Eritrean refugees arrive in Endabaguna collection centre in the Tigray region in Ethiopia, after traveling in an airless truck for four days. Why do people run away? What happens before the infamous images we are shown in the West of refugees crossing the sea? An intense journey through four refugee camps for Eritreans in Ethiopia, amongst unaccompanied children, persecuted Kunamas, people who have been there for as long as 17 years.
This journey will follow Dr Alganesh Fessah's work, and her commitment in securing refugee's rights and liberating kidnapped and tortured prisoners in the Sinai desert.
Three protagonists: refugees; Ethiopia, a welcoming land; and Alganesh who, among despair, will tell us her hopes on the horizon.

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Il Dominio della Lacrima – Lacrymosa

Director: Manuel Koch

Category: Feature

Genres: Thriller, Fantasy

Year: 2018

Country: Italy

Runtime: 2 hours 3 minutes

Production Budget: 10,000 EUR

Daniel Montenovo is a young "shy hedonist", a University student about to graduate with the wise and mysterious professor Petrovicz as advisor. Daniel enshrines an intimate wish in his heart. In a desolate wood, inside the house of a old hermit, he will discover a creature that allows people to experience their deepest desire in an illusory yet vivid form. In front of such a possibility, Daniel will find himself at an existential crossroads: the boy will have to choose wether to continue living an authentic yet unhappy life, or to lose himself in a marvelous and eternal dream, but stopping to live an actual life.

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Joy of Wolf

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Sinking

Director: Hans Montelius

Category: Feature

Genres: Drama, Comedy

Year: 2018

Country: Sweden

Runtime: 1 hour 30 minutes

Production Budget: 100,000 USD

Who is trying to kill Mark? Mark drinks too much and tries his best just
to stay above the surface, literally. He lies passed out in a jacuzzi
and someone enters the room and starts to fill the jacuzzi with water.
Who is it? Is it one of the women he and his producer has harassed? Is
it his producer, who has filmed in secret in order to get more likes on
his video blog? Or is it the producers ex wife, who he has filmed having
sex?

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Wall of death

Director: Mladen Kovacevic

Category: Feature

Year: 2016

Country: Serbia

Runtime: 61 minutes

Production Budget: --

Brankica was the central attraction at country-fairs, when she was just 10 years old. Her big brothers were star acrobats on the wall of death, legends in former Yugoslavia, she was the princess on the wall. Now, her brothers are long gone, she is the only one left behind. A 43-year-old grandmother of six grandchildren, she is repeating the same old stunts on her motorcycle while riding on the sidewalls of the 6 meters wide wooden barrel. She lingers between her melancholic memories and the claustrophobic existence around the last remaining wall of death.

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It’s a Flawed Circle

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Shotgun

Director: Paddy Jessop

Category: Feature

Year: 2016

Country: Australia

Runtime: 1 hour 30 minutes

Production Budget: -- AUS

This film is without dialogue and relies on clever visuals and excellent sound design to tell the story of a man's fall into severe psychosis.

Robbed, fired, dumped and off his meds, he now sees things that aren't there. Insanity and hatred grow while his rage festers, his mind is chaos and he wants others to pay for it. Madness will take him and his shotgun will purge.

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