Filippo Luna

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.

During a trip to Sicily in 1920, Luigi Pirandello meets two gravediggers-turned-playwrights rehearsing a play with their amateur dramatics. Pirandello takes an interest in the odd couple, having been suffering from writer's block while working on his eventual masterpiece, Six Characters in Search of an Author.

Died in a car crash, Paolo is allowed to come back to life for 92 minutes more, thanks to a miscalculation made by Heavenly accountants. He decides to use this newfound time on Earth to fix his mistakes as a father and husband.

Valeria, young secretary of a producer, lives with an eccentric mother and secretly writes for a successful screenwriter, Alessandro. One day, she receives an unusual present from a stranger: it’s the plot of a movie about the mysterious but really-happened theft of a famous Caravaggio’s painting.

Valeria, young secretary of a producer, lives with an eccentric mother and secretly writes for a successful screenwriter, Alessandro. One day, she receives an unusual present from a stranger: it’s the plot of a movie about the mysterious but really-happened theft of a famous Caravaggio’s painting.

Montelusa, Sicily, Italy, 1877. Giovanni Bovara, the new chief inspector of the mills, is charged with collecting a severe tax. Sicilian by birth, but Ligurian by adoption, he reasons and speaks as a man of northern Italy and does not understand the dynamics of the law of silence that regulate the Sicilian land, so his intransigence immediately gives him several enemies…

In a little Sicilian village at the edge of a forest, Giuseppe, a boy of 13, vanishes. Luna, his classmate who loves him, refuses to accept his mysterious disappearance. She rebels against the silence and complicity that surround her, and to find him she descends into the dark world which has swallowed him up and which has a lake as its mysterious entrance.

A cold-lighted Palermo of the 90's. A single day. Unnamed characters slide towards the fulfillment of their destiny. A story of causes and effects, in which crimes affect not only the victims, but the perpetrators too. And from which no one, in a way or another, will stay unscathed.

Salvo, a ruthless Sicilian Mafia hit man, changes his priorities after being involved in a bloody ambush.

Salvo, a ruthless Sicilian Mafia hit man, changes his priorities after being involved in a bloody ambush.

로 베니스 감독상을 수상한 크리알레세가 4년 만에 내놓은 올해 최고의 이탈리아 영화. 섬에 사는 필리포는 아버지가 바다에서 실종된 후 어머니와 민박을 운영한다. 할아버지는 고집스럽게 뱃사람으로 남고자 한다. 그들 가족은 리비아 감옥에서 탈출해 도착한 불법이민자를 숨겨준다. (2011년 제16회 부산국제영화제)

한 척의 배가 엘리스섬을 지나 뉴욕항으로 들어가는 풍경은 끊임없이 만들어지고 있는 이민자들에 관한 영화에서 수없이 사용된 신화적인 이미지이다. 엠마누엘레 크리알레세가 들려주는 이민 이야기에는 전작 [레스피로]에서와 마찬가지로 신비와 경이가 가득하다. 1913년, 시칠리아 농부들은 신세계로 떠난 사람들에게서 소식을 기다린다. 마침내 남아있는 가족들을 약속의 땅으로 인도해 줄 낯선 미국인이 나타난다. 이제 그들이 할 일은 역사를 버리고, 신앙을 내던지고, 새로운 국가에 충성을 맹세하는 것이다. [황금의 문]은 “버려진 과거와 변화하는 사람들, 새롭게 만들어지는 역사, 새롭게 태어나는 인간의 오디세이이다.”