Italy
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Daniele had a choice. He could spend his national service working with the visually handicapped or the physically handicapped. His new friend Pablo suggested that it would be easier working with the ''blind, moles and squint eyes'' because ''cripples are a nasty bunch.'' Pablo should know. He's a paraplegic physical therapist working with disabled Romans. It soon becomes clear, however, that it's not the ''cripples'' that are nasty, just Pablo. At this point, Running Against could have proceeded in a predictable fashion.
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Unnamed and innocent, the seven-year-old girl in Rolf de Heer's The Quiet Room represents the fear and naivet=E9 in all of us. The world seems to be falling in on this little one's life, as she watches the slow, almost agonizing, disintegration of her parents' marriage. In almost protest of their fading love, she has refused to speak to them and has withdrawn inside herself. When her parents speak to her, she does not answer, but we are privy to her innermost thoughts via the deeply personal voice over with which we are given the family's story.
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Luna di Capua and her shadow have a story to tell. It begins in Milan in 1955, as Luna spends her days, a dedicated teacher with a rigid agenda, not just for her students, but for herself. She doesn't even have time to notice Angelo, the school's janitor, who has been in love with Luna for years. But Luna's life is about to change. The Panforti Circus has come to town, and through a twist of fate, Luna comes into possession of Igor's magic lantern.
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Can a love affair survive the intrusion of an illegal teenage immigrant?
Veteran Italian director Marco Simon Puccioni explores two very topical, universal themes: the struggle to recognize gay couples and immigration in this subtle, well-crafted drama starring Maria de Medeiros (Pulp Fiction, Henry and June).
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An American in Rome looking for love.
On a journey to discover their identities, The Eternal City renders a thoughtful and evocative portrayal of three ?twenty-somethings? who instead discover a passion for one another.
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Looking for "Mr. Right," spunky checkout girl Jagoda is frustrated with love, begrudgingly carrying out her work duties in a new supermarket. When a more aggressive co-worker steals a potential date, Jagoda refuses to sell a kind old lady strawberries for her grandson's birthday cake and unceremoniously throws her out of the market.
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Two friends bridge the distance between them, as they mail each other pages from a daily calendar.
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What are the first existential queries that lead us to question the absolute? Who is God? What happens after life?
The Big Question is based on an idea that is very simple yet rather complex: it poses extremely direct questions to a large and varied group of people regarding their own intimate perception of the divine. Their opinions and religious traditions vary as drastically as a caterpillar to a butterfly, yet they are all inspired and well-thought answers.
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Western towns controlled by outlaws. Cigar-chewing heroes in looming close-ups. Operatic showdowns. Throbbing music. Movie buffs know the trademark elements of the great Italian filmmaker, Sergio Leone, by heart, but the engaging documentary Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things will surely give even the most ardent fan new insights into this unique master.
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Set in the rainy environs of Oregon and Washington, Punk Love is the story of two forlorn lovers, searching for that elusive Hollywood Ending to the story of their dreams.