Malfè film

Emilia and Caterina write letters to each other, revisiting their adolescent memories and earliest experiences at a boarding school in the 1950s. ​Did they choose the lives they truly wanted, or only those they dared to imagine?

Jorge leaves his home and family in the outskirts of Lima to try his luck in the goldmines of the Andes, chasing the promises of the mother lode. We follow Jorge through a journey full of omens, where reality and magical thinking blend together, as he discovers that the myth of wealth is built on sacrifices that become ever more tangible – while the boundaries between victims and oppressors get progressively vague and blurred. Mother Lode is a fable about the banality of the descent to hell in times of neoliberalism; it is a paradigm of a relentless world in which everything can be sacrificed in the name of profit.

Zheng is a young lonely Chinese man, who works in Italy since he was a child. In spite of having succeeded to leave the factory and build up his own position he doesn’t feel fulfilled. Struggled between the rigor of his work and the desire of entering into contact with his peers, Zheng is going to be called to take a decision.

Sunday night. Alex is an ultras, his team has just lost a match and he is going home empty-headed. In the absence of his parents, he lives with his grandmother and sells Rivotril tablets to make some money. On a night that’s struggling to take off, Alex goes down to the basement and into a cellar where a bunch of people are gathered. A rap battle is in progress. Nemy is a girl with refined bars, who dances confidently and sinuously. She notices Alex and seeks him out. Together they venture into the night, driving in a stolen car. Two solitudes that recognise each other. Their bodies brush against each other in what seems to be the beginning of a story.