The Nose or the Conspiracy of Mavericks is a sprawling but carefully controlled artistic study on the role of the artist, the audience and (as always) the nature of the oppression itself. It circumscribes the times and the rise of the Russian Avant-garde scene, the Soviet Regime up to the Stalinist purges of intellectuals The film is based on the two greatest creations of the Russian genius: A short story, "The Nose" by Nikolai Gogol, and an opera, “The Nose” that composer Dmitri Shostakovich made Gogol’s novel into in 1930.The film is dedicated to pioneers, innovators in art. People who are ahead of their time. And, most importantly, who have no fear to go against the tide. At the cost of personal well-being, and often life.The main characters of the film are writers Nikolai Gogol and Mikhail Bulgakov, director Vsevolod Meyerhold and composer Dmitry Shostakovich.

A childless couple in rural Iceland make an alarming discovery one day in their sheep barn. They soon face the consequences of defying the will of nature, in this dark and atmospheric folktale, the striking debut feature from director Valdimar Jóhannsson. Darkly imaginative and brought to life by a pair of striking central performances, Lamb shears expectations with its singularly wooly chills, blending humor, dread, and sorrow into one picture, and providing commentary on the human journey. It's a unique film experience that is equal parts peculiar and absorbing.

Flee tells the story of Amin Nawabi as he grapples with a painful secret he has kept hidden for 20 years, one that threatens to derail the life he has built for himself and his soon to be husband. Recounted mostly through animation to director Jonas Poher Rasmussen, he tells for the first time the story of his extraordinary journey as a child refugee from Afghanistan.

A childless couple in rural Iceland make an alarming discovery one day in their sheep barn. They soon face the consequences of defying the will of nature, in this dark and atmospheric folktale, the striking debut feature from director Valdimar Jóhannsson. Darkly imaginative and brought to life by a pair of striking central performances, Lamb shears expectations with its singularly wooly chills, blending humor, dread, and sorrow into one picture, and providing commentary on the human journey. It's a unique film experience that is equal parts peculiar and absorbing.

A psychological thriller on the shoulders of an extraordinary performer like Joanna Scanlan. Mary Hussain converted to Islam when she married Ahmed, she is now in her 60s and they live peacefully together in the coastal town of Dover, England. After his sudden death, she will discover that Ahmed had a secret life in Calais, across the Channel, a few miles away from their home. A revelation that will push her to investigate to find out more about that second family that her husband has always kept hidden from her.

Dal nostro inviato speciale, della redazione di schermaglie.it, sulla sua partecipazione all'ottava edizione di On the Road Film Festival, riceviamo e volentieri pubblichiamo "un pezzo in italiano strano a volte rimbalzante", o uno "zibaldomonstruo" per definizione stessa dell'autore. Grazie infinite a Luca e a tutto il pubblico che ha seguito con passione le giornate del festival.

Nine international On the Road short films, largely unreleased in Italy, of different genres, selected from hundreds of proposals received from all over the world for this year's SHORT> CUTS competition. The spectators in the hall will award the Detour Audience Award, voting for the Best Short. The Jury composed of Silvia Stucky (Multidisciplinary Artist), Nicoletta Bea (Animation Designer), Maya Vetri (Cultural Curator) will award the Award for the Best Short On the Road. The awards ceremony will follow in the presence of guests and the Juries.

Fatiha, Malika, Anissa and Sarah don't seem to have much in common except for their specific relation to a shrill, loud cry, 'the youyou'. But their stories about desire, migration, revolt and be/longing resonate all the more with mutual feelings as the film unfolds towards a collective and poetic statement about female solidarity. The youyou is the French colonial name for the high pitched trill that women in Northern Africa and the Middle Eeast launch as an expression of joy or other intense emotions.

One day I read the story of an aboriginal legend according to which, each ancestor leaves behind him a sinuous path full of songs and spirit-children. When a person walks along the trail of his ancestor, it brings back the songs and stories of the earth. And if a child is born from the journey, he becomes the child of these songs. I went to Tunisia and Algeria to collect songs and popular stories of the Revolution of Independence, on the trail of a family memory and the vinyl record of the Italian anarchist group Cantacronache "Canti della Rivoluzione algerina" (“Songs of the Algerian Revolution”).

With Marie Rivière (Il raggio verde, Racconto d'autunno di Éric Rohmer). Eva is a 39-year-old, single and free woman. A gynaecologist has just told her she has very few eggs left. Eva would like to have a child but doesn’t really know how to go about it. She sets off on a singular journey.

In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, two lovers who are expecting a baby search for a rescue helicopter which is only known as a myth.

The On the Road Film Festival 8. Adriano Lanzi, Roman guitarist, composer, improvisor, and performer of electronic music, will play live the sound track of The Man with the cine camera, by Dziga Vertov, filmed from dawn to dusk, mainly in the Ukrainian (then in the USSR) city of Odessa.

OTRFF8 8 Special Event. “Osannaples”, has obtained the acclaimation of public and critics everywhere, for the originality of the story and the search of new languages. M. Deborah Farina, between the main directors of Italian independent cinema, returns to Detour to tell the story of the Neapolitan musical revolution, starting from the end of the Sixties, which saw the Osanna’s progressive-rock music (authors of cult records including “L’uomo”, “Palepoli”, “Milano calibro 9” with Luis Bacalov), as the main avant-garde, on whose artistic and human story the doc is based. 

Presentazione del libro La paralisi dell’ONU, il coagularsi del blocco dei BRICS, la metamorfosi della politica estera dell’Unione Europea, la propagazione dello Stato Islamico in Africa, l’emergenza migratoria nel Mediterraneo, la proiezione meridionale di Turchia e Russia: tutte queste dinamiche sono strettamente connesse alla crisi che si protrae in Libia dal 2011. Nel frattempo il paese è diventato un laboratorio per la sperimentazione – spesso fallimentare – di diverse modalità di intervento internazionale e crisis management: la hybris liberale dell’egemonia occidentale si è ridimensionata alle esigenze dell’approccio light americano e del ritiro dal quadrante mediorientale; la stabilizzazione del vicinato dell’Unione Europea si è concentrata sulla lotta al terrorismo e alla migrazione irregolare, a scapito della riforma di un settore della sicurezza corrotto da interessi criminali e spinte centrifughe; e la competizione geopolitica nell’odierno contesto multipolare ha approfondito le faglie della politica libica, proiettandole su scala internazionale. Con lucidità e rigore, il libro indaga le rifrazioni interne e internazionali di una crisi che rappresenta non solo una sfida all’ordine costituito, ma anche, potenzialmente, una sfida costituente.

The front line told through the lens of thirteen photojournalists, who with their shots showed the hell, the horrors, the suffering and the indelible scars of war. The voices, photographs and memories of men and women become the stages of a physical and emotional journey between past and present. Because the front line is not only where bombs are shot and dropped, but everywhere you "fight" daily for survival. Original Italian version with English subtitles.