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!

A história sombria e romântica se passa na fictícia Clerville na década de 1960 e conta sobre o encontro entre o “ladrão anti-herói” Diabolik (Luca Marinelli) e a fascinante Eva Kant (Miriam Leone) — um encontro em que amor e crime se unem em uma mistura explosiva. E apenas o Inspetor Ginko (Valerio Mastandrea) parece capaz de frustrar os planos diabólicos do casal.

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.

Calogero está no programa de proteção a testemunhas após ter visto um assassinato da máfia na Sicília. Com uma nova identidade, ele é enviado para Sauris di Sotto, uma aldeia situada nos Alpes italianos, para começar uma nova vida, mas ele não se anima com a neve e as danças folclóricas do local. E para piorar a situação, o assassino que ele denunciou virou informante e foi beneficiado pelo mesmo programa, indo também para Sauris. Calogero acredita que o assassino está à sua procura, mas dos desentendimentos entre os dois surge uma amizade que os leva a diferentes caminhos.

Um ladrão ateu e um sacerdote que viajam magicamente para a Palestina de 2000 anos atrás terão que garantir o nascimento do menino Jesus.

Palermo, Sicília, 1980. Tommaso Buscetta, membro da Máfia, decide mudar-se para o Brasil com sua família fugindo da guerra constante entre os diferentes clãs da organização criminosa. Mas quando, após viver várias desgraças, ele é forçado a voltar para a Itália, toma uma decisão ousada que mudará sua vida e o destino da Cosa Nostra para sempre.

Paola é uma professora amada na escola onde trabalha, e que esconde um grande segredo: à noite ela é a Befana, a bruxa natalina que entrega os presentes às boas crianças. Quando ela é capturada por um misterioso vilão, seis de seus alunos suspeitam de sua verdadeira identidade e saem em busca de salvar sua professora e o natal.

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.

More and more parents take competitive behavior towards the teachers of their children: deny votes and programs, vaneggiano of likes, dislikes, and conspiracies. So, instead of helping in the training of their children, they become insurmountable obstacles to their growth. Presumptuously they think: "We know better than anyone else our children and we know what they are worth and how and what you have to teach."

No reino de Longtrellis, o rei (John C. Reilly) e a rainha (Salma Hayek) vivem com uma frustração, já que não podem ter filhos. Em busca de uma solução, eles entram em contato com um mago, que oferece uma receita: é preciso capturar o coração de um monstro marinho e fazer com que uma virgem o cozinhe, sem que alguém esteja por perto. Entretanto, ele faz um alerta: toda vida criada exige uma perda, para que o equilíbrio seja mantido. Em outro país, um rei (Vincent Cassel) guiado pelo desejo está obcecado por uma mulher que viu pela janela, no alto de seu palácio, sem saber que ela na verdade é uma idosa. Em um terceiro país, um rei (Toby Jones) se surpreende com a descoberta de uma mosca que, alimentada por seu sangue, cresce cada vez mais.

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.

1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary movements in Southern Italy, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's republican and unificationist cause. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disillusionment as they grow apart over the decades.

Nello, um sindicalista afastado do sindicato por suas ideias avançadas, se vê dirigindo uma cooperativa de doentes mentais, ex-pacientes dos manicômios fechados pela Lei Basaglia. Acreditando firmemente na dignidade do trabalho, ele convence os sócios a substituir as esmolas assistencialistas por um trabalho de verdade, inventando para cada um, uma atividade incrivelmente adaptada às respectivas capacidades, mas indo também de encontro às inevitáveis e humanas contradições.

The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants -- a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.

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.