Giovanni Calcagno

Inside a warehouse in Palermo, a group of people smashes a man’s arm to pieces with a wheelie bag packed with weights. This is the method used by an amateur criminal organization that fractures the limbs of its willing victims before staging fake accidents and raking in the insurance payouts. Vincenzo recruits the individuals from among the down-and-outs that haunt the city streets, where Luisa is a habitué, since she gets her crack there. Vincenzo’s problems suddenly get worse, though, after a series of mistakes shut him out of the gang, and Luisa is now his only chance: he convinces her to have her bones broken.

As the son of two inmates Hyacinth was always more at home in prison than in the outside world, until he took part in a foot race that promised to change his life.

Two proud and estranged brothers, a disputed inheritance and a past that comes back. When he hears about the passing of his father - whom he has not seen in many years - Salvo returns to his native Sicily. He intends to convince his brother Lillo to sell the family farm and save his pizzeria, which is about to go bankrupt - a secret that he has kept even from his wife and children. But things will not be easy and Salvo will have to come to terms with his choices. A bittersweet comedy about family relations and how one never stops growing up, not even at fifty.

When Vlada Koza, a mature Ukrainian woman, intrusive and caring, becomes a grandmother for the first time, she drops everything and travels to Sicily from her home in the Carpathian mountains to join her daughter... without warning! But the girl does not appreciate her mother's suffocating attention, so she puts her at the door without much hesitation. Thus, Vlada finds herself alone and penniless in the Sicilian hinterland. An unexpected car accident makes her become the unlikely governess of Don Fredo, boss of the Laganàs: a dysfunctional mafia family struggling to survive in the modern world. The irrepressible intrusiveness of Vlada, who loves feeling useful, taking care of others, fixing things and giving advice, seems to bring a hint of palpable well-being within the walls of Villa Laganà... At least until the day she finds out who Don Fredo and his children really are!

Adaptación cinematográfica de las aventuras del personaje creado por Angela y Luciana Giussani en los años 60. Diabolik es un ladrón con miles de disfraces y con miles de trucos. Gracias a sus especiales máscaras de plástico, es como una especie de camaleón capaz de mimetizarse a su gusto y escapar de los adversarios hasta en situaciones muy peligrosas.

A road movie around Sicily in a red van loaded with "pupi", in search of new oral narrators to tell the other Sicily, the one that awakens through the universal force of popular stories.

In the '80s, a teenage nerd notices sinister parallels between the story of his favorite comic book and the real life horrors befalling the small town where he lives. He and a few friends seek to investigate.

Lodo is twenty years old and lives the difficulties of his age, between a difficult relationship with his father and the attempt to conquer Giulia, his roommate with whom he is madly in love. He performs with the MOB, an indie band, in a legendary Roman club: the Morrison. One day, by chance, Lodo's path crosses that of Libero Ferri, a former rock star with a stalemate career, who tries to find success but ends up withdrawing more and more in himself, neglecting his beautiful wife Luna and living isolated in his luxurious villa full of memories. Between dreams, failures, friendship, tormented loves and curious characters, their meeting will become a mutual stimulus to move forward, but at times also a difficult comparison between generations and very different ways of being.

1860, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. While Garibaldi's troops are invading this lawless territory, four female bandits nicknamed the "Drudes" are looking for their own personal revenge.

After witnessing the mafa’s murder scene in Sicily, Calogero becomes a protected man and is sent to a small town in the Alps. Soon after, the killer he reported, now an informant, comes to the same town and the sleep with the enemy begins.

Un ladrón y un sacerdote terminan transportados mágicamente en la Palestina del año 0, donde tendrán que asegurarse de que la Natividad siga su curso.

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.

Currante el día, Paola (Paola Cortellesi) es una profesora de primaria normal y corriente, pero por la noche se convierte en "La bruja de la Navidad", una criatura mágica que se dedica a llevar regalos a los niños más pobres. Una noche, Paola desaparece tras ser raptada por el cruel Mr. Johnny, a quien la bruja arruinó la infancia. Un grupo de seis alumnos se pondrán en marcha para desentrañar el secreto de su profesora. ¿Serán capaces de salvar a Paola y a la Navidad?

The last moments of life of WW2 soldiers are dissolved in the depth of the Mediterranean Sea, among emotions and thoughts. While sinking inexorably in the fascinating and cruel sea, love echoes in the letters of a husband soldier to his spouse. Today we can still hear those cries arise from the sea. “There’s always a red sea, a living or dead sea that appears in front of all wandering men in search of a home.” Stefano D’Arrigo, Horcynus Orca.

En el espíritu de "decir no a sus hijos ", la película habla de un grupo de jóvenes que están en la escuela secundaria y montan una banda que lleva el nombre de Alex & Co. Será este grupo de chicos, dirigido por Alex (Cecchi), quien haga frente a sus propias aspiraciones, a la voluntad de sus padres y especialmente a la directora de la escuela que quiere obstaculizarlos en todo momento...

Ambientada en el Barroco, narra, con tintes fantásticos, la historia de tres reinos y sus respectivos monarcas. La de la reina de Longtrellis (Salma Hayek) y su marido (John C. Reilly), la de dos misteriosas hermanas que encienden la pasión del rey de Strongcliff (Vincent Cassel), y la del rey de Highhills (Toby Jones), obsesionado con una pulga gigante, que le lleva a romper el corazón de su joven hija. Libre adaptación de “El cuento de los cuentos”, del napolitano Giambattista Basile, célebre autor de relatos cortos del siglo XVII.

A child is in the park playing with his plasticine figures, that he modeled himself. His favorite character is Isaac. Isaac is a little boy just like he is, who dreams, hopes and confides in the world. Isaac is happy because this is the day he will accompany his father on the mountains to help him out. Isaac's father is named Abraham.

Three very different women who are hiding a secret are forced to work together to save their own skin.

Alberto Negrin directs this Italian drama starring Luca Zingaretti (well known Italian actor from the TV series Inspector Montalbano). The film traces the 57 days after the assassination of his friend and fellow anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone when Paolo Borsellino (Zingaretti) must come to terms with his own inescapable destiny.

Bloody revenge of a young tailor during the peasant revolt of Bronte, Sicily. Salvo, the land keeper, is at the vanguard of the revolt who wants to possess everything of the former baron, even something he can not have: his elegance, his style. Salvo decides not to kill Tailor in return for a beautiful tailor made cut to fit jacket. During Tailor's sewing work some tragic memories come to surface, memories of a man tortured by unknowns. That is when Tailor finally react and challenge the unrestrained anger of the campier. In an amazing duel between the two, in the bloody and wild sun of Sicily, the Tailor pieces together the most tragic events of his life, starting up his old vengeance plan.

Como respuesta a la feroz represión borbónica de 1828, tres jóvenes del sur de Italia, Domenico, Angelo y Salvatore (Luigi Lo Cascio, Valerio Binasco y Luigi Pisani), deciden alistarse en el grupo de resistencia dirigido por Giuseppe Mazzini (Toni Servillo). A través de cuatro episodios, seremos testigos de la corrupción, las conspiraciones y las pulsiones homicidas que se viven en el seno de la organización. La unidad de Italia es el objetivo, pero no parece que vaya a ser precisamente un camino de rosas.

The film follows Nello, the recently hired director of a newly developed work cooperative of former mental patients. After the closure of state psychiatric hospitals and asylums in Italy under the Basaglia Law many former patients were left with few resources and little hope of reintegrating into society. With the intention of actually improving the lives of his pupils, rather than just sedating them, Nello encourages them to expand their individual abilities and explore the wider world around them although, regardless of intention, there is sometimes a price to pushing boundaries too quickly.

Chiara es una joven apasionada, utópica y revolucionaria que esconde su verdadera identidad como miembro de las Brigadas Rojas italianas a finales de los setenta. A simple vista se trata de una chica normal que se muda con su novio a un nuevo piso, pero su amigo Enzo empieza a sospechar que no todo es lo que parece.

In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear incident, Mariko becomes unable to sleep. She therefore decides to move to Sicily to stay with Rocco. There she discovers that she is able to sleep again, but only when driven around at night, nurtured by the lights of the unknown city.

In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear incident, Mariko becomes unable to sleep. She therefore decides to move to Sicily to stay with Rocco. There she discovers that she is able to sleep again, but only when driven around at night, nurtured by the lights of the unknown city.