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Giano and Luc are traveling through the woods when a storm breaks, forcing them to take shelter in Luc's villa. Gradually and insidiously, a competition emerges between them, with terrible consequences.

Following the movements of ten people from different social and cultural backgrounds in São Paulo, the filmmaker redraws the map of South America's largest metropolis. It is the railway tracks, the taxi routes and the underground lines that both structure the city and reveal its rhythm, its daily rituals and the diversity of cultures that live within it.

Chicago, from the 1990s on, has established itself as one of the most interesting cities on a musical level, despite its decentralized position in relation to the West/East Coast dichotomy. The merit goes to people like Steve Albini (journalist, critic and producer, as well as leader of the group Shellac), David Grubbs, Damon Locks, Ken Vandermark, and Ian Williams, who have given life to a type of sound connected to the architecture of this city where different styles of the underground music scene meet.

Red Ashes explores poetical, mystical and visionary aspects of the island of Stromboli and Roberto Rossellini's 1950 film Stromboli (1950). It uses archive footage form the film, together with sequences from documentaries shot by Vittorio De Seta in the Aeolian Islands, and home movies by Ingrid Bergman. The protagonists are four islanders, two of whom worked on set with Rossellini.

It follows the roads that lead into the cold darkness of Italian decline of the family, of patriarchal society, of educational firms, of religion and a land where common shared space is molded by a drab, egotism, even its revolutionary.

Transparent Roads delivers the physical sensations of a bus trip - it's so realistic it becomes ironic at times - and portrays Brazil's human variety in a series of encounters. The landscapes seen through the windows, the restaurants on the road, the testimonies of common and awfully endearing people are so touching because they don't correspond to the stereotypes we have about this country.

The "water roads" are at times the only practicable roads across the Amazonian forest. Even for the local inhabitants, life along the river means keeping it navigable and protecting it from the environmental damage caused by deforestation. Augusto Contento brings a light, lyrical touch to a world fast disappearing, never straying from the river itself, in an unusual road movie that rides Brazil's majestic watery highways and gives voice to a profusion of enough scholars, river dwellers, and travelers to do a magical South American novel proud.