The Cracker Effect

Feb 12, 2019

0h 15m

★ 0.0

Overview

News explodes like a bomb! Due to the genetic mutation, immigrants living in Italy undergo a noticeable change. Is this wonderful country in danger of sinking? A television reporter decides to go over this strange theory, and the news is on the agenda of the whole country. This fake documentary brings fake news, media, politics and harsh criticism about Italy.

Genres

Comedy

Documentary

Production Companies

L'Age d'or Production

Centro Produzione Audiovisivi Università di Roma Tre

EleNfanT DistriButioN

Sayonara Film

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Cast

Luca Telese

Ashai Lombardo Arop

Pino Calabrese

Carlo Caprioli

Maurizio D'Agostino

Claudio De Pasqualis

Letizia Letza

Mario Sesti

Mustapha Mbengue

Fabio Morici

Romano Reggiani

Miriam Karlkvist

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7.7

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5.7

Amazing Journeys

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0.0

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At the beginning of the 60's, thousands of Portuguese turned up in France through the underground. They were fleeing misery, war and repression. Left to unscrupulous smugglers, they had to cross the Iberian Peninsula tracked by the Portuguese and Spanish police. For many, the voyage towards France turned into a disaster. As a child in a shantytown, the author remembers having heard about these terrible odysseys. Thirty years later, he goes in search of the stories of his childhood and seeks to understand what sparked this unprecedented emigration known as the "plebiscite by foot" against Salazar. Between childhood memories and historical investigation, he looks for the images of this exodus, the largest in post-war Europe.

5.5

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6.0

The Wire

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0.0

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0.0

Fadia’s Tree

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9.0

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0.0

Chaja & Mimi

Jun 22, 2013

Chaja Florentin and Mimi Frons have been best friends for 83 years. Born and raised in Berlin, they had to escape from the Nazis to Palestine with their families in 1934. They talk about their complicated relationship with Berlin in a Tel Aviv café where they meet everyday. A film about friendship, homeland and identity.

0.0

Köy

Apr 21, 2022

KÖY (Turkish for village) is about the longing for home, for belonging and the freedom of the self. Three women from three generations are united by their Kurdish roots.

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Southern Border

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On the border, the line as principle of property and belonging reaches an extreme dimension where it physically defines the sphere of its relations. Those who transgress it reconstruct these imaginary lines on a daily basis, redefining the traditional geography and occupying the non-spaces where others live in a temporary form of existence. These others, the non-citizens, are phantasmtic, exchangeable parts of a flexible market. Made invisible, they are permanently controlled persons. Under the pretext of a greater civilian security, they are kept clear from the public spaces reserved for the citizens with rights and pushed into non-public spaces, which are run by state and military surveillance, multinational operations servicing a European market and non-governmental organisations.

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0.0

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8.0

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5.5

300 Worte Deutsch

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9.0

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0.0

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0.0

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0.0

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