The New Immigrants- Hong Kongers - Review

"You can always walk away... and sometimes you have to”

There is all the flavor of real life in this documentary written and directed by Vivian Tsang.

A sincere journey to discover a new city, a new life, a new beginning.

The right choices are often those that lead you to risk the most, and looking at The New Immigrants- Hong Kongers, we know and admire people who have taken an opportunity to turn a page and write a new one.

Thus we discover the new immigrants, common people from who leave the grandeur of a gigantic metropolis to embrace the little Manchester, its slowness, its weather, and its nostalgic atmosphere.

Change, courage and integration in a film that delicately shows us the most beautiful part of the human being.

LOOK UP—The Science of Cultural Evolution - Review

Who are we and where are we going?

An infinite discovery that requires courage, will and knowledge.

Nini Caroline Skarpaas Myhrvold and Espen Jan Folmo authors and directors of LOOK UP—The Science of Cultural Evolution give us a fascinating journey that addresses essential themes with a long look focused on psychotherapy.
We are the result of a thousand battles that come from afar; we contain within us joys and sorrows capable of having repercussions on our path. Anxieties, illnesses, a sense of inadequacy are increasingly a symptom of the century in which we are living; a society founded on appearance and perfection but increasingly fragile and insecure on an internal level.

A modern world dedicated to the frantic search for well-being but increasingly sadly lost in the depths of loneliness and depression.
How can we really discover who we are? How can we deal with the inner demons that prevent us from evolving as human beings?

The human mind, so mysterious and complicated, is treated with great competence and simplicity through philosophical quotes and animated graphics; a fascinating journey where psychotherapy acts as a spring capable of pushing man towards full self-awareness, integration and personal development.

Vintage ButterFly - Review

Something that breaks doesn't necessarily have to be thrown away...

Vintage Butterfly written, directed and starring Veronika Vivien Biro is a film - or better - a fairy tale about rebirth and second chances.

A woman broken by a toxic relationship made of physical and psychological abuses is ready to take the extreme step that will bring her to death but someone or something stops her.

The solitude and grayness of theIrish landscape mixes with the sadness that shines through the gestures and eyes of Ellie who tragically bears the signs of a violent and painful past on her skin.

Distrustful and disappointed, she lives a miserable and cold life until the day she meets Martin (Dáire James Gallagher) a young man that with gentle insistence will help Elisabeth to escape from her inner prison and rediscover her femininity, the pleasure of company and the desire to redeem herself.

Will is power, will is strentgh, and is not a case that the protagonist's surname "Manwill" embodies the great meaning of her transformation journey.

A film that delicately focus on pain but at the same time teaches how life -sometimes in a mysterious way - helps us find our way to become what we have always dreamed of being.

The Final Chapter - Review

The one and only certainty of human kind... is that it will gonna die.

We live with the knowledge that we will meet death sooner or later, but what does it look like? Does it have a look? Is it tangible? Or does it simply come like a gust of wind and take us away?

Ingmar Bergman in 'The seventh seal' depicted it as a disturbing man dressed in black, Bob Fosse in 'All That Jazz' gave it the splendid face of Jessica Lange... but the truth is that we can only imagine or idealise something that we have never seen personally.

The Final Chapter, written, directed and produced by musician and filmmaker Erik Dreng Jacobsen, offers us the opportunity to see how the dead are experienced, celebrated, honored or exorcised depending on the place, customs and culture.

Jacobsen's main gift is that of being able to travel the viewer far away and accompany him to parts of the world that perhaps he will never be able to see in person; his friendly baritone voice leads us to discover the most disparate places: we see the astonishing and catastrophic Pompei, the classic architecture of Italian cemeteries, Egyptian sarcophagi, embalmed corpses, skulls, bones... we feel amazement and a hint of disgust.

The editing of photos and videos shot by the director himself, and the perfect choice of background music, manages to convey an interesting, informative and engaging short film focused on the greatest human fear... perhaps making it more acceptable to us.

Asherah's colors - Review

Complicit glances, smiles, shyness, desire, dance steps in the street.

Asherah's colors written, directed and produced by Gary Mazeffa - filmmaker and storyteller - is a story as fast as the car in which the two protagonists travel at the beginning of the film: Raphael (Connor Tuohy), a young and shy Italian student, and Asherah (Shira Behore), beautiful and bold.

The childish games, the lightheartedness, the birth of a love in all its purity and its magic. But also the art and power of colors in life; the colors so capable of bringing meaning and power to a moment making it forever vivid in the memory.

Asherah is the dream girl, the personification of everything a boy can dream of.
She brings light and color to everything she touches or she looks at. She's a saviour and modern hero.

In the short film stands out the dynamic and expressive art of Hessam Abrishami - artist of Iranian origins present in the role of himself - capable of representing the phases of falling in love and capturing the true essence of romance.

A romantic fairy tale with deep meanings where love changes people for the better and manages to color a black and white life.

The priory of Sion - Review

200 pages of charm and mystery, the story takes place in Rennes-le-Château, the favourite destination for all the curious and passionate about the Templars and hidden treasures.

The heart of the story, which rides between present and past, is the desperate search for the Holy Grail, one of the most coveted and talked about treasures of all time.

Dan Brown opened the doors of curiosity about the Priory of Sion with his acclaimed 'Da Vinci Code', but what Florence Cazebon-Taveau gives us with The Priory of Sion published by editions edilivre in france is a screenplay fulfilled with suspense, esotericism and espionage.

A thriller where good and evil compete with each other, challenge each other.

Excellently written, the plot the plot develops between 2022 where Florence and Patrick, two young friends passionate about Occitan history, go in search of the Holy Grail and will have to deal with the inquisitorial eyes of Opus Dei who quite fear the young woman's clairvoyance; and 1896 where everything turns around two couples and their domestic life : Abbot Bérenger Saunière and his trusted housekeeper and lover Marie Denarnaud; and Abbot Henri Boudet and the young Manon.

Saunière personifies greed, avarice, the thirst for wealth, power, lust.

On the contrary, Boudet reminds us of the meaning of altruism, generosity and the importance of passing down knowledge and wisdom to his young apprentice - who we will discover is also a medium and pranotherapist.

Six main characters - described in such an effective way that you can see them clearly - around which we can meet iconic names of the caliber of Baudelaire, Verlaine, Victor Hugo, Emma Calvè and Wagner , who not only belonged to the Priory of Sion but had in common the same desire to protect their important documents from the esoteric Society of Brouillard .

Fascinating and flowing, the screenplay - with all its places, names and flashbackst - requires for sure attention and a very good memory.

There is life, and there is death.

There is reality and there is fiction. There are twists and special effects.