It’s 1965 and Lia, a spirited young woman living in a small Sicilian town, is initially attracted to Lorenzo, the son of the most prominent...

A tale of the three funerals for the ashes of Italian writer Luigi Pirandello intertwined with a murder committed by a young Sicilian immigrant boy...

Two different worlds, art, and cuisine collide in a tense and mysterious thriller.

Claudio is the legendary captain of Carrarese Calcio, a leading force, both in football and family life. Everything seems to be going great: the team...

A former narcotics smuggler, now living peaceably in the Calabrian hills, is drawn back into his family’s drug-trade dynasty by his impetuous...

Three prostitutes live in the wasteland by the sea, where a village of outcasts has emerged. It is life in a harsh reality of poverty, ignorance, and...

A suburban high school, structures, students and teaching staff are the exemplary mirror of a social and economic depression that seems irreversible....

A mysterious wrongdoing shakes the life of Castelrotto, a small Apennine village that has always been off the news... and history. Ottone, a former...

The relationship between three lifelong friends is put to the test by a long-ago secret and a present-day crime committed by one of their children.

Three characters in three different ages are united by a dream of freedom and a small masterpiece of literature. A journey through the mysterious and...

Mattia is 17 years old. Raised in a post-industrial province and experiencing an identity crisis, he is the son of a trade unionist and a housewife....

After turning state's evidence against a gangster for whom he was laundering money, a corrupt and self-absorbed accountant finds redemption when he...

Bologna, 2002. Amidst protests against the labor reform, the assassination of a lawyer opens old wounds between Italy and France. Former far-left...

An immigration agent is torn between the job and his humanity.

During WWII, a teenage boy discovering himself becomes love-stricken by Malèna, a sensual woman living in a small, narrow-minded Italian town.

A young woman with cancer travels to a remote wilderness zone in Northern Italy in search of an alternative cure. What she and her friend, Martino,...

The life and times of Pippo Fava, a Sicilian journalist who fought the Mafia through his local newspaper in the '70s and early '80s, meeting an...

Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans...

Clemente is an old Sicilian fisherman who goes on working in spite of his late age. His life is disrupted the day he finds a young refugee’s...

Civilisation is coming to an end. The death of his only relative gives a feral boy the pretext to journey beyond the confines of his home...

GIOVANNI is a man who is completely devoted to his job. Following his past as an artist, trying not to sink financially, he decides to take over the...

Like his father and grandfather before him, Nicola works on a field along an old mountain road. He sells potatoes grown by his family to passing...

Sara and Samuele are two simple guys who take care of a community of elderly people. One day Samuele discovers that one of these has bequeathed him...

After Mirta dies of a drug overdose with her lover, she resuscitates alone and discovers she's part of a violent world she never knew existed.

Two boys dream of escaping their island town to go on an adventure on the mainland, a son and his lover fight to escape the clutches of an...

A prison drama where an old mobster and a prison guard must find a way to coexist so that imprisonment can become less so, and perhaps reveal the...

After a boat accident where he puts his son Flavio’s life at risk, fisherman Capudemazza decides to never go fishing again. Ten years later a...

Felicia Impastato, mother of the brave Peppino Impastato, tries to keep the memory of his son alive after his murder.

A 13 years old girl is forced to go living with another family for reasons unknown.

On a winter’s day, Nena gathers her family to celebrate her birthday. Il paradiso del pavone is a small journey into the intimacy and...

Rosa is a young rebel girl who lives with her grandmother and her uncle in a remote part of Calabria, in Southernmost Italy. Her mother's untimely...

Veronica, a 16-year-old girl, is spending the Christmas holidays at her grandfather's in a small village in the Sicilian hinterland when a woman...