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- Italy, 1900. Agata is a young woman who embarks on a desperate journey to reach a mysterious sanctuary to save her daughter's soul from the eternal damnation of Limbo.
- In the summer of 1996, Tamara enjoys the last few weeks in the village where she lives on the coast of Alagoas before going to Brasília. Over the summer, however, Tamara meets and gets attracted to a mysterious girl nicknamed "Heartless".
- Hearing disabled 17 year old Iva, her older brother and younger sister, has lost her mother in an accident, and the whole family is in agony, not making it easier when she finds out that her mother kept secrets from them.
- The story of a man who is incapable of betraying his principles.
- Jabir, Usama and Useir are three young Bosnian brothers, born into a family of shepherds. They grew up in the shadow of their father, Ibrahim, a strict, radical Islamist preacher. When Ibrahim gets sentenced to two years in prison, for war participation and terrorism, the three brothers are suddenly left on their own.
- Branko has been a truck driver for only a few months, a choice that is quite understandable, given that he now earns three times as much as he did as a schoolteacher. But everything has a price, which is not always quantifiable in terms of money. As children we were told: "work ennobles man". But here the opposite seems true: it is Branko, with his efficiency, his obstinacy, his good will, who ennobles a job that grows more and more alienating, absurd and enslaving.
- From General Luigi Cadorna's telegram, 1st November 1916: " - I remind you that there is no other suitable means to crush a collective offense other than that of immediate execution by firing squad of those mainly responsible for it and when the personal verification of the ones responsible is not possible, it is the duty and the right of the commanders to draw some soldiers among those suspected and punish them with death...". Wartime justice in the first world conflict is a theme that is often underestimated in regards to its dimension and its cruelty. Italy, in particular, holds the sad record for the ferocity with which it punished its soldiers: the many that deserted, those that rebelled against the trenches, against the suicide attacks imposed by the commands, or that simply displayed an insufficient "patriotic spirit" for a cause that they felt didn't belong to them. In Italy, from 1915 to 1918, 1 soldier out of 14 undergoes a criminal trial, 1 out of 24 is tried for desertion. This is the theme that the documentary film "the Disobedients of the war" wants to bring to light: the massacres of the cursory executions, the decimation, the abnormality of the punishments. During this time of celebrating the War, this film offers to tell stories of men that were against it.
- In northeast Italy is the Tagliamento River, tucked away almost like a secret spot on the border between Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia. This documentary is a poem to that river and the people of the region, spirited, storied, and naturally beautiful.
- For the last sixteen years a group of parents (12 mothers and 2 father) have gotten together every fifteen days to talk about their daily lives and to find achievable and effective solutions to better the lives of their disabled children. After so many years, the group has become a micro-society with its own equilibrium and in sharing the dedication they all have to their disabled children, the group has also become a family, especially for those parents who even though have since lost their children, keep coming to the group, precisely because in doing so they can "continue to feel that their loved ones are still alive". Helping to be helped, and helping oneself by taking care of others are the founding concepts of this group. Regrets, fears, guilt, joy, anger, sharing and achievable solutions are the ingredients which make up the 60 minutes in which this group of people sit in a circle and identify that comparison and sharing are the common goods that can help to better their lives. "Parents" is a documentary film about the value of sharing our very suffering. The film aims to be a permanently informative project, to give hope to those who think they are alone and forgotten, and to get them involved in going out to meet others, who however different they might seem, have gone through the same experiences, the same emotions and the same need for hope. The members of the group arrive at the meeting every fifteen days carrying the heavy burden of their everyday reality, but return home with a smile and ready again to face their daily lives: thus, that which might seem like a problem is transformed into something good, into a resource.