Even in the strongest economies in the world there are neighborhoods crowded with marginalized, unemployed, vagabonds, prostitutes. The Kamagasaki slum in Osaka is the most famous in Japan. The director Leo Sato in the film Tsukiyo no kamagassen - The Kamagasaki Cauldron War narrates us, without victimism, the bizarre but human characters of the slut.

Bureaucracy is a clandestine power that subdues everyone, including governments, parliaments, dictators, kings, presidents. Preferred victims are ordinary, simple people. In front of the modules flattened like bureaucratic rifles, they are annihilated. La muerte de un burócrata by director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea tells of a heroic and terrible battle against the notorious bureaucracy.

In 1967 Hong Kong had many violent riots by youth riots. The boys demonstrated with the Red Book by Mao Tse-tung. The rallies were made up of dreamers, utopians and imaginative. Everything ended one day. Now those young people are mature men, many have become important, famous as the director Yonfan. His oneiric nostalgia is the beautiful No.7 Cherry Lane, presented at the 76th Venice Film Festival, winning the Golden Osella Best Screenplay.

Mongolia has the charm of virgin land to discover, fantastic, and especially magical.

Magical for its natural dimension, a vast steppe, a torrid summer and a cruel winter. The inhabitants have a deep and devoted spirituality. In a harsh, lonely world, inhabited by tough people, with a fascinating but also ruthless nature, the excess of spirituality could be a shock for a wealthy spoiled conformist enlightenment French person in a depressive crisis. It happens in Corine, in the film Un monde plus grand - A Bigger Worldby director Fabienne Berthaud, presented at the 76th Venice Film Festival.

Father is the one who protects and nourishes. A difficult and complex task. Many men have weaknesses or are totally unreliable in fatherhood. The film Rialto by director Peter Mackie Burns, presented at the 76th Venice Film Festival, shows two fathers, different, in crisis, one young and one mature. Both have families and have become unable to fulfill their role: to protect and nourish.

A mature woman, a young boy on the run in the great boulevards of St. Petersburg. Both have a difficult love in the movie Vesna - Spring by Nathalia Konchalovsky.

It is the story of a relationship of four.

The first are two women: Marina the mother, Olya the daughter. The third is a boy. Last is the romantic town.

The Manson sect is history. It ends with a series of murders and convictions. Why did three young, beautiful girls from ordinary families kill on Manson's orders? This is explained by Canadian director Mary Harron with Charlie Says presented at the 75th Venice International Film Festival

On July 15, 2016, a group of soldiers attempted a coup in Turkey. As in every insurrection, troopers tried to occupy ministries, television, radio, roads, and airports. There was a moment of confusion and misunderstanding, but within a few hours, the loyalists reconquered the command. The uprising failed but the consequences were painful for Turkey.