Never-before-seen works, writings and photographs offer insight into the life of Jean-Michel Basquiat as a teenager in New York in the late 1970s. The times, the people and the movements of the city help Basquiat form his artistic vision. With: Jim Jarmusch, Alexis Adler, Al Diaz, Fred Brathwaite aka Fab 5 Freddy, Lee Quiñones, Felice Rosser, Jennifer Jazz, Luc Sante, Carlo McCormick, Glenn O'Brien, Michael Holman, James Nares, Coleen Fitzgibbon, Kenny Scharf, Sur Rodney (Sur), Patricia Field, Mary-Ann Monforton, Diego Cortez, Bud Kliment.

They are very young and come from all over the industrial districts of Tuscany, so different from the famous hills of Chianti: the steelworks of Piombino, the port of Livorno and the Piaggio factories in Pontedera. It is the red province of “houses of the people” and the Italian Communist Party. Getting away from this region is a dream for them, but this is 1968 and everything is possible! They receive an offer they can’t turn down, a tour in the Far East: Manila, Hong Kong, Singapore. Armed with musical instruments and a desire to sing, they set off hoping for success but find themselves in the middle of a war, and the war is the real one of Vietnam. Fifty years later Le Stars tell the story of their adventure amongst American soldiers, remote jungle bases and soul music.

Suspiria e dintorni, il nuovo libro nell’ambito della collana dedicata dalle edizioni Ardigiland all’uso artistico della luce nel cinema e nel teatro. I curatori Piercesare Stagni e Valentina Valente hanno intervistato Tovoli partendo dai test effettuati per la fotografia per arrivare ai processi di stampa, permettendoci così di rivivere un’incredibile avventura estetica. Dopo l’incontro proiezione di Suspiria nella versione restaurata a cura di Luciano Tovoli per iniziativa dell’americana Synapse Film.

Primo documentario sulla leggendaria Mavis Staples, musa ispiratrice del giovane Bob Dylan, che con il gruppo The Staple Singers, formato dal padre, dalle sue sorelle e dal fratello, si è imposta come icona della musica gospel e soul e dei diritti civili per gli afroamericani con Martin Luther King. Dai canti di libertà degli anni 60, ai successi degli anni 70 fino ad oggi, Mavis è rimasta sempre fedele alle sue radici. Potenti esibizioni live, rare immagini d'archivio, conversazioni con amici e coetanei - tra cui Bob Dylan, Prince, Bonnie Raitt, Levon Helm, Jeff Tweedy, Chuck D - raccontano le lotte, i successi e le storie intime di una donna che, giunta ai 75 anni, è ancora attiva e vitale, con una nuova generazione di fan. E il suo messaggio di amore e di uguaglianza, oggi più che mai, è ancora necessario.

Da quando la piccola Amal è tornata nel suo quartiere, ricorda solo un grande albero che non c’è più. Un sicomoro su cui lei e i suoi fratelli si arrampicavano. Si ricorda di quando portava il caffè a suo padre nel frutteto. Dopo è arrivata la guerra. Amal e i suoi fratelli hanno perso tutto. Sono figli della famiglia Samouni, dei contadini che abitano alla periferia della città di Gaza. È passato un anno da quando hanno sepolto i loro morti. Ora devono ricominciare a guardare al futuro, ricostruendo le loro case, il loro quartiere, la loro memoria. Sul filo dei ricordi, immagini reali e racconto animato si alternano a disegnare un ritratto di famiglia prima, dopo e durante i tragici avvenimenti che hanno stravolto le loro vite in quel gennaio del 2009, quando, durante l’operazione ‘Piombo fuso’, vengono massacrati ventinove membri della famiglia.

Al via la seconda edizione del “Carine Film Festival”, un vero festival del cinema con proiezioni e ospiti che avrà luogo all’interno di una scuola della Capitale, l’I.C. Via delle Carine, a due passi dal Colosseo! La prima parte del “Carine Film Festival” si svolgerà il 22 e 23 febbraio 2019 e in seconda battuta nel mese di maggio. Il festival presenterà film di qualità editi e inediti, cortometraggi e lungometraggi, la cui originalità permette di entrare in problematiche sociali e psicologiche volte a far riflettere e sorridere gli spettatori. Le proiezioni, presentate dai ragazzi dello staff (alunni ed ex alunni della scuola), saranno accompagnate da interventi di registi, produttori o attori che ha partecipato alla realizzazione delle opere. Il festival, aperto a tutti e gratuito, è stato quest’anno reso possibile da un finanziamento ottenuto grazie al “Piano Nazionale del Cinema per la Scuola” promosso dal MIUR e dal MiBACT e dalla collaborazione dell’Associazione arcobaleno di voci della Mazzini.

Many of us know the freedom of our twenties-unfettered by responsibilities or mortality, inventing ourselves in the rush of the moment. ALL THESE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS viscerally summons that feeling, chronicling life across two Warsaw summers when students Kris and Michal resolve to experience life to the limit. After Kris breaks up with his long-time girlfriend, anything seems possible and Warsaw is his playground. Along with best friend Michal, handsome and wide-eyed, they roam the metropolis at night, floating from party to party, dancing until dawn in makeshift clubs and city squares.

Skopje, Macedonia. With the economy in recession and wage payments months overdue Vele, a mechanic who work in a train depot, struggles to afford medicine for his ailing father afflicted with a cancer. When he accidentally finds in a wagon a packet of marijuana, clandestinely smuggled and hidden on an incoming train, he steals it to make a cake for his father, to relieve his pains and passing it off as an experimental new treatment. Soon the grapevine is buzzing with news of Vele’s miraculous healing powers and he suddenly finds himself cornered by an odd-couple of gangster goons on the trail of the drugs and the nosy neighbors who queue outside his apartment door to clamor the recipe for the “healing” cake.

Alla Quattordicesima edizione, questo è il corso che cercavi. Se hai perso la prima lezione contatta la docente per un recupero privato e per l'iscrizione! Sei ancora in tempo. Una docente professionista che metterà a disposizione tutte le sue conoscenze e il suo sapere, non perderai neanche una lezione perché la potrai recuperare. Patrizia Copponi è fotoreporter dal 1980. Ha collaborato con i maggiori settimanali, quotidiani e mensili italiani ed esteri. Si occupa da decenni dell’Organizzazione di attività culturali sulla comunicazione visiva e dell’insegnamento della Fotografia. Insegna al Detour dal 2012 con dedizione e passione.

Rike embodies a typical Western model of happiness and success. She is educated, confident, determined and committed. We see Rike's everyday life, as an emergency doctor, before she fulfills a long-held dream and sails out to sea alone in her sailing boat. Her goal: Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean. But her dream holiday is quickly broken off on the high seas, when, after a storm, she finds herself near a stricken fishing boat. Around a hundred people are about to drown. Rike follows maritime law and radios for help. As her request is going nowhere, she is forced to make a momentous decision.

Prima visione a Roma. A seguire incontro con il regista Eugène Green a cura di Art Digiland. In una Lisbona onirica pervasa dalle sonorità struggenti del fado, Julie, un’attrice francese che parla il portoghese, è stata scritturata per le riprese di un film ispirato al testo delle Lettere Portoghesi, nel ruolo di una religiosa del 17° secolo che si innamora di un giovane ufficiale francese. Attraverso i suoi incontri, cerca dare una nuova direzione alla sua vita.

Halla, a woman in her forties, declares war on the local aluminum industry to prevent it from disfiguring her country. She risks all she has to protect the highlands of Iceland-but the situation could change with the unexpected arrival of a small orphan in her life.

A look at the economic paradox of technological unemployment, wherein modern society focuses on creating jobs, but technology offers people the unique opportunity to work less and less. In The Same Boat is an artistic and sophisticated analysis of the effects of globalisation on the world, which presents an optimistic argument for the future of the planet. Guided by some of the world's leading radical figures, from Zygmunt Bauman to Serge Latouche, In The Same Boat travels the world discovering the views of its people on work, happiness, the environment, and the economy. Supported by Rudy Gnutti 's stunning cinematography and compositions, this film will transform your understanding of the modern world. 

“We need other kinds of stories,” Donna Haraway implores as she faces the camera. “Storying otherwise,” in Haraway’s expression, is an apt characterization of the work of this paradigm-shifting thinker, whose contributions to feminist studies of science and technology resist and even rebel against hegemonic ways of thinking and living. But what form should such stories take? What might they sound or feel like? To watch Fabrizio Terranova’s Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival (2016) is to know that the filmmaker took Haraway’s imperative to heart. Both subtle and explicit filmic techniques mimic, comment on, and evoke the rhythms that sustain Haraway as a thinker, a storyteller, and a human being. In experimenting with different kinds of storytelling—bending the genre of documentary by fusing the intimate everyday with the playfully surreal—Terranova brings one of the most evocative social theorists to life and demonstrates the supple, transformative nature of storytelling itself. (From  "The Society for Cultural Anthropology" SCA web site) ."Donna Haraway is brilliant, passionate, original and a leading intellectual force of our times. This portrait offers an intimate glimpse into the style and imagination of this charismatic thinker.". Anna Tsing.

Stazione ferroviaria di Viareggio, 29 giugno 2009, ore 23:48. Un treno carico di GPL deraglia. Il gas fuoriesce, entra nelle abitazioni. Ore 23:50, uno due tre esplosioni. 32 persone muoiono nelle loro case. "Il sole sulla pelle" racconta la storia che non può essere dimenticata di chi è rimasto e lotta per avere giustizia e verità. Un documentario che esplora con la nostra umana curiosità il rapporto che ognuno di noi ha con il dolore, le grandi paure e i grandi sogni. Fino a che punto possiamo capire e condividere il dolore degli altri? Questo dramma ci ha scosso la coscienza e ha distrutto le nostre sicurezze. Poteva accadere ovunque. Poteva accadere a chiunque. Noi siamo figli e siamo padri. Queste storie ci appartengono. Docufilm tra i finalisti ai Nastri d'Argento 2019. In sala saranno presenti il regista Massimo Bondielli e l’autore/produttore Gino Martella, insieme a i familiari dell’Associazione Il Mondo Che Vorrei Onlus Viareggio.

The first film to encompass the remarkable story of one of the true icons of our time, as she fights to maintain her brand's integrity, her principles and her legacy.

In 2010, Saudi Arabian writer and activist Hissa Hilal did something unimaginable she starred in the Arab World's biggest televised live poetry competition. In a society where the art of poetry is alive and well, 'Million's Poet' is a hugely popular X-Factor style talent show. Storming through the rounds, and becoming progressively more political in her critique of religious extremism and her patriarchal society, Hilal became the first woman to reach the show's final speaking with wit and lyricism on live tv to an audience of 70 million (Rotten tomatoes).

The first film to encompass the remarkable story of one of the true icons of our time, as she fights to maintain her brand's integrity, her principles and her legacy.

Musical improvisation on five Dance Short Films directed by American pioneer film-makers Maya Deren e Hilary Harris, performed live by Luca Venitucci (Accordion), Giusi Bulotta (Double bass), Mauro Pallagrosi (Soprano Sax), Andrea Liberati (Guitars).

Come i più affezionati e accorti di voi avranno sicuramente notato, questa settimana la consueta programmazione del Detour si svolgerà solo il giovedì e il venerdì e sera. Durante il weekend, invece, la sala diventerà il set cinematografico per le riprese di un cortometraggio ideato e diretto da un nostro socio. Cogliamo l'occasione per ricordare a tutti i soci la possibilità di utilizzo esclusivo della sala e il bar/foyer per i loro progetti artistici e professionali. 

Box office hits in France. In three months a homeless shelter for women is set to close as the result of an administration decision. The social workers running the centre will do whatever it takes to reintegrate the women back into society. They have no protocol, everything is permitted... but time is running out.

The story of a community of black people in the American South during the summer 2017, when a string of brutal killings of black men sent shockwaves throughout the country. A meditation on the state of race in America, this film is an intimate portrait into the lives of those who struggle for justice, dignity, and survival in a country not on their side. DIRECTOR’S NOTES. I have told stories of the American South which were unfolding before my eyes in unexpected ways. I have documented clusters of today’s America where the seeds of anti-institutional, reactionary anger (which gifted the country with Donald Trump as the new president) were already planted, but no one cared to notice. This time, I intended to dig even deeper into the roots of social inequality in America, by focusing on the condition of African Americans. While preparing the film, we were able to establish deep bonds with several people, and gained access to neighbourhoods and communities that are off-limits to most. I soon realised that most of the people I met felt strongly about two dramatic events in Louisiana’s recent history: Hurricane Katrina (2005) and the killing of Alton Sterling (2016). Both events are the result of institutional negligence, of a socioeconomic divide between rich and poor, and of strong endemic racism. Moved by anger and fear, people wanted to get a chance to tell their stories out loud. I hope that this film can facilitate a much-needed discussion on race and the current plight of African Americans who, now more than ever, are witnessing the intensification of hate crimes and discriminatory policies.

Ryszard Kapuscinski was one of the 20th century’s principal and most colourful war reporters. He reported on 27 revolutions during his career, was imprisoned 40 times and sentenced to death four times. He was primarily active in Africa as a correspondent for a Polish news agency. When civil war erupted in Angola in 1975, he was the only foreign reporter on the ground. His book Another Day of Life describes how that diamond and oil-rich country was used as a Cold War pawn. Kapuscinski’s writing style is subjective, sometimes even surreal. This animated adaptation does complete justice to his form of literary reportage. Hallucinatory impressions of chaotic firefights are recorded in a graphic-novel-like style. Interviews with the main characters were made in real life, 40 years later – some have become successful, others have gone mad. This is a story, but no work of fiction.

Based at the legendary DETOUR Arthouse Cinema, in the heart of Rome since 1997, ON THE ROAD FILM FESTIVAL is devoted to contemporary independent cinema - fiction, documentary and experimental - presenting travelogues, urban and waste-land wanderings, real or imaginary topographies, unexpected detours, psycho-geographical drifts, migration and nomadism. We look for films that develop, through linguistic and narrative skills, a critical and inventive approach to the subject guidelines of the Festival: a traveling mood with digressions from fixed paths, where the route is what matters, not the destination. The Festival hosts screenings, master classes, meetings, art exhibitions, live performances and music, both at DETOUR Cinema and at a variety of cinema venues, film clubs, schools, public libraries and other unusual locations in Rome and and in its surrounding area. DEADLINES: Early Bird > April 30, 2019 | Regular > August 31, 2019| Late > Sept 15, 2019 

Based on his a true story, THE RIDER stars breakout Brady Jandreau as a once rising star of the rodeo circuit warned that his competition days are over after a tragic riding accident. Back home, Brady finds himself wondering what he has to live for when he can no longer do what gives him a sense of purpose: to ride and compete. In an attempt to regain control of his fate, Brady undertakes a search for new identity and tries to redefine his idea of what it means to be a man in the heartland of America. "A delicate and tremulous thing, at once confident and gentle, lyrically composed yet as stoic as the American masculine ideal it so carefully deconstructs." - The Front Row. 97% tomatometer!

Wyatt (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper), two Harley-riding hippies, complete a drug deal in Southern California and decide to travel cross-country in search of spiritual truth. On their journey, they experience bigotry and hatred from the inhabitants of small-town America and also meet with other travellers seeking alternative lifestyles. After a terrifying drug experience in New Orleans, the two travellers wonder if they will ever find a way to live peacefully in America. A landmark counterculture film, and a "touchstone for a generation" that "captured the national imagination," Easy Rider explores the societal landscape, issues, and tensions in the United States during the 1960s, such as the rise of the hippie movement, drug use, and communal lifestyle. Real drugs were used in scenes showing the use of marijuana and other substances. The movie's "groundbreaking" soundtrack featured The Band, The Byrds, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Steppenwolf. Detour presents the recently digitally restored version of the movie, curated by Cineteca di Bologna.

A healing path using the power of dreams, theatre, poetry, and shamanism. Psicomagia - An Art to Heal, Shows how psychological realisations can cause true transformation when manifested by concrete poetic acts. The film Includes many examples of the surreal but successful actions Jodorowsky has prescribed to those seeking his help. While living in Mexico, Alejandro Jodorowsky became familiar with the colourful and effective cures provided by folk healers. He realised that it is easier for the unconscious to understand the language of dreams than that of rationality. Illness can even be seen as a physical dream that reveals unresolved emotional and psychological problems. Psychomagic presents the shamanic and genealogical principles Jodorowsky discovered to create a healing therapy that could use the powers of dreams, art, and theatre to empower individuals to heal wounds that in some cases had traveled through generations. The concrete and often surreal poetic actions Jodorowsky employs are part of an elaborate strategy intended to break apart the dysfunctional persona with whom the patient identifies in order to connect with a deeper self. That is when true transformation can manifest.

A healing path using the power of dreams, theatre, poetry, and shamanism. Psicomagia - An Art to Heal, Shows how psychological realisations can cause true transformation when manifested by concrete poetic acts. The film Includes many examples of the surreal but successful actions Jodorowsky has prescribed to those seeking his help. While living in Mexico, Alejandro Jodorowsky became familiar with the colourful and effective cures provided by folk healers. He realised that it is easier for the unconscious to understand the language of dreams than that of rationality. Illness can even be seen as a physical dream that reveals unresolved emotional and psychological problems. Psychomagic presents the shamanic and genealogical principles Jodorowsky discovered to create a healing therapy that could use the powers of dreams, art, and theatre to empower individuals to heal wounds that in some cases had traveled through generations. The concrete and often surreal poetic actions Jodorowsky employs are part of an elaborate strategy intended to break apart the dysfunctional persona with whom the patient identifies in order to connect with a deeper self. That is when true transformation can manifest.

May I Be Happy reveals the significance of "mindfulness" practice in transforming the lives of young people. Through poetic cinematography and sequences of teachers leading sensitive or boisterous practices to kids from different backgrounds, the film brings awareness to the benefits of mindfulness as a way out of violence and suffering, and as an attainable solution for younger generations. Covering varying approaches to mindfulness by a range of San Francisco Bay Area programs, May I Be Happy reminds us of children's natural capacity for wellbeing, resilience and happiness.

Sibylle Schönemann era una regista della Germania dell'Est. Nel 1984, lei e suo marito sono stati arrestati dalla Stasi e detenuti per poi andare in esilio nella Germania occidentale. Dopo la riunificazione, è tornata in patria con una troupe cinematografica per incontrare i suoi "carnefici", che non hanno mostrato alcun rimorso…

A Chinese man, who once fled China on foot before finding a home in Greece and starting a successful business, wanders the packed corridors of a Greek ferry. He looks kindly at the exhausted refugees wrapped in blankets, while he talks in voice-over about his own privations, giving us a different perspective on the European refugee crisis. This man is a volunteer on a team led by Suzanne, also from China, who thinks that the Chinese community should help their adopted homeland of Greece. Under her tireless leadership, all kinds of aid are distributed: on Lesbos, in Pireaus, in the center of Athens—wherever she finds refugees. Suzanne is an inimitable whirlwind who draws in everyone around her, from her shabby-looking Greek husband to a high-strung dog, a drunk professor and a wayward daughter. The only thing she cannot totally overcome is the skepticism of her Chinese acquaintances.

El Pepe is the guerrilla-style cognomen of former Uruguayan President José Mujica, who led the South American country from 2010 to 2015. Double Palme d’Or-winner Emir Kusturica started work on a film when Mujica was in the last months of his presidency. A series of conversations between the two titans is the backbone to El Pepe, a Supreme Life. Kusturica opt for an impressionistic and intimate portrait rather than photographic detail or regurgitating facts. He mixes in footage from Costa Gavras’s 1972 political drama State of Siege as representing the era. But for the most part, Kusturica is happy to sit back, smoke a cigar and let Mujica have his moment.  The film was played out of competition at the last Venice Film Festival.

A true and poignant story from Slovenia: in a sealed mine, deep underground, an immigrant miner finds thousands of bodies thrown into a pit after WW2. He affronts the society to preserve what is left of his own humanity by insisting to arrange a funeral for those bodies. RUDAR premiered at the Warsaw International Film Festival in 2017, was the Slovenian Oscar Entry 2018, and collected 21 Awards at International Festivals, among them Best Film, Best Actor and Best Director..

Poco prima del crollo della DDR, Helke Misselwitz ha viaggiato in treno attraverso il paese, intervistando donne della Germania dell'Est di varie età e provenienze. Rivelando le loro frustrazioni, speranze e aspirazioni personali e professionali Misselwitz dipinge il quadro di una società che cambia. La proiezione fa parte della rassegna 1989 | 2019 - TRENT'ANNI SENZA MURO curata da Federico Rossin e Alessandro Del Re e distribuita da Reading Bloom. La selezione è volta a presentare al pubblico uno spaccato di vita nell'ex DDR a cavallo del 1989.

Eleven-year-old Parvana lives with her family in a one room apartment in Kabul, Afghanistan, which is under Taliban rule. When her father is arrested without warning for being an intellectual, Parvana's mother is left alone to care for their three children. Banned from going out in public without a man, Parvana’s mother risks arrest herself as she travels to the local prison and demands her husband’s release, only to end up being beaten and turned away. As the family becomes desperate for food, Parvana must cut off her hair and disguise herself as a boy so that she can venture out in public and become the breadwinner for her family. She meets a girl named Shauzia who is also dressed as a boy for the same reason...

Train driver Nurlan is heading to Baku for the last time before retirement. On its way round the neighborhoods of the city his train snags a blue bra off a washing line. To escape from his lonely existence, Nurlan embarks on the most adventurous journey of his life: to find the owner of this perky piece of underwear. He rents a small room in Baku and begins his quest. With great dedication, Nurlan knocks at every door along the train track. While the women he encounters have their own reasons for letting him into their private worlds, his 'project' does not remain unnoticed by their husbands. The more difficult it gets, however, the more creative and determined Nurlan becomes to convince every woman to try on the bra..

Festeggiamo con tutte e tutti, socie e soci Detour, la notte più lunga del 2019. Dalle ore 18.30 in compagnia della musica dal vivo dei P.H.A.K.E. [folk'n'roll & spoken words dalla capitale] e le selezioni a cura di dj Paolo. PHAKE eseguiranno per l'occasione un repertorio di brani originali e standard della tradizione folk/blues con l'innesto di spoken words e recitativo musicale.

On completion of the Global Climate Change Week 2019 Detour Cinema presents a cinematic meditation on humanity's massive re-engineering of the planet. ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch is a four years in the making feature documentary film from the multiple-award winning team of Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, and Edward Burtynsky. Narrated by Alicia Vikander. | "Masterfully detailed, captivating you visually with a subtle yet haunting musical layer to tell a difficult yet necessary story." | "To reach a better future, we have first to imagine it. Anthropocene elucidates our monstrous deeds in a way that is observational rather than condemnatory." | "As the filmmakers release us from our trance, we emerge concerned, horrified, but hopefully motivated to do something.". Official Selection for the Sundance, Toronto and Berlin International Film Festivals.