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.

Влада Коза продает свой дом и без предупреждения летит к дочери в Италию, чтобы воспитывать внука. Но оказывается, что Влада с ее советами мешает дочери. Маричка уже взрослая! Босс мафиозного клана Фредо Лагана возвращается домой после 15 лет заключения. На вилле беспорядок, дети распущены, с деньгами проблемы. Дисфункциональная итальянская семья без матери нанимает Владу домохозяйкой, а получает советчицу, врача, психотерапевта и фиксера всех на свете проблем. Только не говорите Владе, что Дон Фредо и его дети — мафия!

Дьяволик, в детстве усыновленный криминальным боссом и выросший в гениального вора, однажды встречает очаровательную Еву и разочаровывается в своей профессии. Однако уйти из нее будет не так-то просто...

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 год. Накануне объединения Италии в единое королевство южную часть полуострова наводнили отряды пьемонтцев для борьбы с мятежниками, которые собирались в банды. Против новой власти восстали не только те, кто был на службе у Бурбонов, но и простые крестьяне. Но одна из банд получила более широкую известность, ведь состояла она из женщин. "Распутницы" - так называли их представители новой власти, а сами они считали себя борцами за справедливость и собственную свободу.

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.

Сальво — убежденный атеист: еще бы, он промышляет кражей предметов духовного искусства. Отец Валентино — благочестивый священник. Два далеких друг от друга мира сталкиваются накануне Рождества: причудливой волей судьбы, Сальво и Валентино переносятся во времена библейских событий. Они оказываются в Палестине за несколько дней до Рождества. Им предстоит узнать о себе много нового, проявить мужество перед опасностью в лице царя Ирода и, рискуя собственной жизнью, спасти маленького Иисуса.

В начале 1980-х между боссами сицилийской мафии разгорается война за героиновый рынок. Один из мафиози, Томмазо Бушетта, пытается скрыться в Бразилии. В то время, как на его родине начинается бойня, Бушетта вынужден издалека наблюдать за тем, как его сыновей и братьев убивают в Палермо.

When six elementary school students suspect their missing teacher is Befana, a Christmas witch who delivers presents to good children, they set off on a magical journey to save her.

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."

Маги и волшебники, короли и королевы, красавицы-принцессы и страшилы-великаны населяют эту потрясающую готическую фантазию. Сластолюбивый Король Одинокого Утеса берет в жены прелестную деву, а она превращается в уродливую старуху. Отважный Король Долины Туманов отправляется на бой с драконом, поскольку волшебник предсказал, что королева понесет ребенка, если съест сердце дракона. Ну, а Король Диких Гор с любовью выращивает гигантскую блоху, а родную дочь без тени сожаления отдает в жены горному орку. За стенами величественных замков строятся коварные козни, даются безрассудные обеты, там страстно любят и жестоко убивают…

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.

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.

Рим, 1978 год. Молодая женщина Кьяра вместе со своим другом переезжает на новую квартиру. Внешне ее жизнь кажется размеренным, рутинным существованием, но ее коллега Энцо начинает подозревать, что за спокойной уравновешенной видимостью таится нечто иное. На самом деле, Кьяра скрывает, что является членом итальянской подпольной экстремистской террористической группировки «Красные бригады», которая планирует похитить бывшего премьер-министра и убить за его предполагаемые преступления. Мы видим события глазами Кьяры — она то чувствует себя потерянной, то испытывает страх, путая реальность и вымысел. Осуществление плана началось, но постепенно выясняется, что не так-то просто держать в плену крупного политика, когда страна погружена в кризис.

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.