Fabrizio Ferracane

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 (and possibly Mafia-tied) local family. His possessiveness eventually repels her. But soon after, he appears with his cronies to kidnap, rape and force her into a shotgun marriage, all with the collusion of the town’s authorities. Lia and her family refuse to accept this barbaric ‘tradition’ and, despite the constant intimidation and violence, they take their fight for Lia’s rights to court.

A suburban high school, structures, students and teaching staff are the exemplary mirror of a social and economic depression that seems irreversible. To worsen the situation, a few meters from the school, between the houses of the neighborhood, the "Zoo", a center of assistance to migrants became over the years a permanent refugee camp. A professor is called to hold a remedial course for six students suspended for disciplinary reasons. But when the clashes between the population and migrants break out, the situation quickly gets out of hand.

En un día de invierno, Nena reúne a su familia para celebrar su cumpleaños. Il paradiso del pavone es un pequeño viaje a la intimidad y autenticidad del ser humano: una película sobre una familia extensa en la que todos hablan pero nadie escucha. Hasta que un evento inesperado obliga a los miembros de la familia a mirarse a los ojos y revelarse como realmente son.

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

Una historia de tres funerales surrealistas de Pirandello entrelazados con el asesinato de un joven inmigrante siciliano en Brooklyn por lo que se describe como una narrativa surrealista, grotesca y compleja.

Rosa es una joven rebelde que vive con su abuela y su tío en un lugar remoto de Calabria, en el extremo sur de Italia. La prematura muerte de su madre, cuando Rosa era una niña, ensombrece su vida actual.

A girl goes back to her biological family-

Una antigua prisión del siglo XIX, ubicada en una zona inaccesible e indeterminada del territorio italiano, está siendo abandonada. Por problemas burocráticos, los traslados están bloqueados, y quedan alrededor de una docena de presos, con pocos agentes, esperando nuevos destinos. En esa atmósfera extraña, poco a poco, las reglas parecen tener cada vez menos sentido, los protocolos se relajan y se vislumbran nuevas formas de relación entre los hombres que allí quedan.

El final de la civilización ha llegado. Un padre y su hijo se encuentran entre los supervivientes. El hijo es criado como un niño salvaje, pues su padre considera que es la única forma de sobrevivir. Cuando el padre muere, el hijo decide emprender un viaje a lo largo del río, en busca de alguien que pueda leer el diario que su padre escribió a lo largo de su vida.

Mirta, una adolescente de 19 años, muere de sobredosis junto a Robin, su novio. Entonces, resucita sola y se da cuenta de que para seguir viviendo necesita devorar a otras personas.

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 overbearing father, and a priest is shocked when some local students plan to put on a homoerotic rendition of the miracle of Lazarus. Immerse yourself in Italian culture, humor and lush landscapes in these beautiful short films from Italy.​ The 5 short films are: Uproar [Pipinara] (2017); Tidal Time [L'ora di porto] (2018); The Mannequin [Il manichino] (2015); Lazarus Come Out [Lazzaro vieni fuori] (2015); Glue [Colla] (2016).

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 motorists, while work on the "new road" is about to end. An unexpected encounter will give him the courage to take risks and ... change gears.

Palermo, Sicilia, 1980. Tommaso Buscetta, miembro de la mafia siciliana, decide mudarse a Brasil con su familia huyendo de la guerra constante entre los diferentes clanes de la organización criminal. Pero cuando, después de vivir varias desgracias, se ve obligado a regresar a Italia, toma una decisión audaz que cambiará para siempre su vida y el destino de la Cosa Nostra.

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 dead body stuck in the fishing nets.

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 untimely end.

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 discovery about his son awakens a feeling in him that had been buried.

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, find is a secluded paradise, but their arrival threatens its fragile existence.

Bologna, 2002. Amidst protests against the labor reform, the assassination of a lawyer opens old wounds between Italy and France. Former far-left terrorist Marco, convicted of murder during the Years of Lead and living in Paris since then thanks to the Mitterrand Doctrine, is suspected of being its instigator. When the Italian government asks for extradition, Marco goes into hiding with his daughter Viola, precipitating also the life of his family back in Italy.

Rinaldi, un veterano policía italiano de gran experiencia, es enviado por su gobierno a Libia para negociar el control de los migrantes en suelo africano. Allí, se enfrenta a la complejidad de las relaciones tribales libias y al poder de los traficantes que explotan la angustia de los refugiados.

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 family tradition and become a carpenter even though he is aware that that's not the road he wants to walk. UMBERTO is an unscrupulous business man who, for his own financial wellbeing, extorts money from desperate people. While Giovanni is creating a work commissioned by two unusual brothers, Umberto meets ADELE in a hotel room to obtain his 'compensation'. Their lives that run parallel will never meet, but they will always be united by being the two sides of the same medal.

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

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 timeless aspirations, sufferings and 'Reveries' of a poet, of a young student and a child lost in the woods.

En un pequeño pueblo de la región de Calabria, los hermanos Carbone llevan años viviendo del lucrativo negocio familiar: el tráfico de drogas. Eran hijos de pastores, pero ahora forman parte de la familia criminal calabresa del entorno de la ‘Ndrangheta. Luciano, el mayor, alejado del resto de la familia, intenta mantenerse al margen hasta que su conflictivo hijo Leo empieza a acercarse a su carismático tío Luigi y sus turbios negocios. Cuando Leo pierde el control una noche, los tres hermanos se ven forzados a unirse de nuevo para defender el honor y las vidas de la familia.

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 four billion lire. All this money changes the life of Samuele who begins to neglect friends and girlfriend to attend more high-ranking environments, begins to make investments with alleged friends and in the end he loses everything. Suddenly he comes up with an idea to get the money back together with his real friends, but it won't be an easy task.

Malena es la belleza más encantadora e irresistible de Castelcuto, un aburrido pueblo de la soleada costa siciliana. Es nueva en la población y estando su marido en la guerra, cada paseo que da por el pueblo se convierte en un espectáculo, acompañado por las lujuriosas miradas de los hombres de la localidad y de los resentidos cotilleos de sus envidiosas esposas. Un ejército de flacos adolescentes en bicicleta la sigue allí donde vaya, con la única intención de observar su exquisita y arquetípica belleza. Entre ellos se encuentra Renato Amoroso, un chico de trece años con mucha imaginación que lleva su deseo a unos límites inesperados de obsesiva fantasía.