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Flip Fitch: Smoke and Mi... When an elderly, disgraced musician signs on to direct a young artist's music video, his idiosyncrasies and egomania take charge and the entire cast and crew find themselves on edge and at risk in this experimental single-shot film experience.

Explosion Course Auto-racing crews prepare for the Indy car race near Fuji in this Japanese documentary. Award-winning director Hiroshi Teshigahara compares the celebrated event with the enthusiasm of the youth of the time to the sport. Narration is provided by Shoichi Ozawa and compliments a well-crafted feature that will only appeal to die-hard auto-racing fans.

Unlikely Temptations After thirty nine days and nights wandering the desert, Jesus suffers the ungodly challenge of the Devil's most bizarre and tantalizing temptations.

The Runner The Runner follows a strange woman as she travels to a small town where her violent compulsions are slowly revealed.

L’altra faccia del pall... The core values of the Olympic Games are excellence, friendship and respect, with a view to build a better world by promoting sport. Exploring the history of the Games and the relation between sport and the building of a national identity, Mangini exposes the appropriation of these ideals by fascist movements, cultural imperialism and capitalism.

Dalla ciliegia al lambru... A reportage on the “popular walk of Vignola”, a non-competitive and popular race that challenged the rhetoric of competition and the myth of sport as discipline. The joyful interviews to the participants portray an Italy looking for a sense of community and deep social connection.

Domani vincer (secondo e... Second part of the series Mangini dedicated to boxing as a possibility for the social rescue of young Italians. In the south, shepherds train by running after sheep and gyms are improvised. In Rome, young Roma people struggle against discrimination in the ring. In the north, a father trains his son so that he can achieve the victories the father missed.

Intimate Strangers A short film about the journey of two Chinese homosexuals, Qiang and Yiling, looking for “marriage of convenience” within the Chinese LGBT group in Australia. Both of them are trying hard to find the perfect heterosexual “partner” with which to build a stable fake relationship.

Domani vincer (primo epi... In 1967, Nino Benvenuti wins the boxing world championship, becoming a myth among young Italian men from the working class. They start seeing sport as a chance to break free from a life of poverty, hunger and heavy industrial jobs. The first episode of a series Mangini made about the struggles of young men looking for a better future.

Apenas Meninas Documentary that explores the harsh reality of childhood marriages in Brazil, which mostly affect girls.