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- Antarctica (1988) a ship must escape from the grip of the ice to reach the bay of Terra Nova. The Italian icebreaker Laura Bassi in 2023 follows the same route and reaches the southernmost point on the planet ever reached by a ship
- Viola, an overweight 35-year-old beautiful woman, works in her husband's clothing boutique as sales assistant. Her everyday life is pivoted on a monotonous routine spent between her job and her household life. No one around her seems to ever notice her presence, or rather they only do so as regards her size: the sour colleague in the boutique where she works, her husband, even the supermarket cashier where she goes shopping every day who always comments malignantly on the enormous bulk of sweets she buys. She devotes herself to cooking them every night to forget life's futility. One day Viola is compelled to a turning point in her existence. When she gets back from the supermarket, she cannot enter her home because her husband has changed the lock of the door. He is fed up with her, with her multi-coloured bowls scattered around their apartment, and with their sheets dirty with chocolate. With her neighbour's help, she decides to leave everything behind and fill her life with something that has always been present in her daily life: food, candies, and chocolate especially. Chocolate will be the key to her new future: she opens a deli kiosk right in front of her husband's boutique. He will be obliged to change the name of the shop from "Fashion II" into "Fashion IV". Her newly-found freedom and self-reliance in her own beauty will be an ideal retribution with respect to those who had always made fun of her.
- In the summer of 1909, eighteen-year-old Giovanni Piras left his home in Mamoiada, a small village in Barbagia, Sardinia, to seek his fortune in Argentina. Once arrived, he started working as a farm-labourer, sending part of the salary to his family. Thus he would redeem the land his father pawned to buy him the ticket for the New World. However, his letters became less frequent already from 1912, until they broke off definitively a few years later. But news from Giovanni arrived thanks to the emigrants coming back home: everyone assured that he had made his fortune and was in good health, and that he had not sent letters anymore, because if someone knew he was Italian, he would be in trouble, and even lose his job. The family did not surrender and kept on seeking him, although the news were always the same and too often mysterious... until during the 50's, on a Sunday, a nobleman in Mamoiada sent for Giovanni's sister, Caterina, to show her a picture on the magazine "Gente" (People). As soon as she saw it, the woman burst into tears: in the man portrayed she had recognized her brother... but that man made people call him Juan Domingo Perón, and was the President of Argentina. Nowadays, in Sardinia, some still say that, once arrived in Argentina, Giovanni Piras studied and undertook the military career; some also say that he was a very smart, willing and resolute boy and that, climbing to power, he came to a point where his roots and his Italian name would place him in an uncomfortable situation; so that he changed his name from Giovanni to Juan, and from Piras to Perón. There are many supporters to this thesis, and there is a number of coincidences that make these two figures superimpose. Perón launched many mysterious and winking phrases about his origins (he himself declared he did not exactly know neither where, nor when he was born). Lots of assumptions, but no certainties. In fact, to say that Perón was Italian would still make him a "traitor to his country"... a foreigner could never become the President of Argentina. A long time has passed by now, and legend is blurring with reality, and no one has ever had news about Giovanni Piras. So, what happened to the poor emigrant? And who was really Juan Perón?
- Cuba is a country in fast evolution. The youths are in ferment; they are seeking new routes to let themselves be known as well as new languages to communicate in any artistic form - from music to literature, to cinema and the visual arts. The ground where these young artists are living is no longer a restricted and closed area like that of a socialist country which, as happened in the past, is supposed to be isolated from the rest of the world. They are living in a developing country that is constantly renewing itself. There the new generations manage to process and change their own tradition with what they learn from foreign cultures, both in form and in content. This documentary did not come out of a programme but out of casual encounters. Thus it tries to draw a map among the new Cuban generations that use art as a means of communication. We found an intimist painting that analyzes man's inner core from a universal point of view, explores it and separates it from its peculiarly Cuban context; a fresh and sharp literature that is no longer concerned with what can be written and what cannot, because young writers have found out that the worst censorship inhabits within ourselves; and a totally anti-traditional music, hard and cutting rock sung by too-long muffled voices that now want to scream and wake up all those that do not perceive times are changing.