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- A famous rock star's vacation in Italy with her boyfriend is disrupted by the unexpected visit of an old friend and his daughter.
- Viola Vitale, Miss Italy and fashion journalist, returns to Sicily to look for her father. She starts working for a digital news company and joins police inspector Francesco Demir in solving crime with the help of synaesthesia.
- A Golden Age-style musical about the last human family.
- Nothing - not her father, not the church - can stop unruly Angela from being with her childhood best friend and great love, Sara in a 19th century Italian village.
- Looking for work as a violinist, Josef comes into the orbit of a rich young woman. She introduces him to a hedonistic existence free from religious intolerance. Josef gets an incredible commission: to write an opera for the San Carlo.
- TV SeriesA Sicilian young woman named Modesta, born into an impoverished family in early 1900 and driven by a strong belief that she's destined for a better life.
- Baaria is Sicilian slang for Bagheria where Tornatore was born and this is an autobiographic epic of three generations in the Sicilian village where he was born.
- A mother unexpectedly meets her son's fiancée at a villa in Sicily and gets to know her as she waits for her son to arrive.
- An Eritrean refugee hides her identity as the notorious human trafficker, "Madame Luna". When she is forced to stay in Italy on her way to freedom, she experiences the same hardships endured by the people she exploited.
- A modern and comical take about the birth of a baby Jesus sibling. But this time set in Sicily.
- Follows the Di Rienzo family. Seemingly perfect, the Di Rienzo family is destabilized by the sudden death of the father of the family, an exemplary man, an established professional and a point of reference for everyone.
- As a British ornithologist arrives in Sicily to research the climate change effects on migration, he witnesses a series of dramatic events. Relinquishing his role of a detached observer will be more challenging than it seems.
- Against a heavy cloak of secrecy, a 12-year-old girl smitten with her handsome classmate ventures deeper and deeper into the enchanted Sicilian forests to find him, unaware of just how thick is the mystery behind his strange disappearance.
- A Sicilian family deals with the arrival of a group of immigrants on their island.
- Luka, a young soldier craving battle, embeds himself in an isolated fort where men have been waiting in vain for ages for a mythical enemy to strike. A contemporary adaptation of Dino Buzzati's classic novel 'The Tartar Steppe'.
- Antonio and Agostino grew up together in a small town in Sicily; they dreamt of living a different life, somewhere else. Now thirty-year-olds, they both live abroad but they lost touch years ago. When Antonio discovers that the house he grew up in, which had been empty for a long time, is about to be sold at auction, he decides to leave and reconnects with his childhood friend. But their lives have changed a lot. Old conflicts and new revelations bring them through Europe on a truck journey.
- Maria, Pinuccia, Lia, Katia and Antonella are five sisters who live in an apartment in Palermo. When Antonella accidentally dies, the sisters' relationships are turned upside down for the rest of their lives.
- Salvo is a body guard and hit man for a mafioso. After foiling an attack on his employer, Salvo hunts down the man who organised it and encounters the man's blind sister. She causes Salvo to question himself and his existence.
- In 1937, the Ministry of Public Works issued the 'Bottai Law', later repealed and replaced by Law 717/1949, also known as the 2% Law in force today. According to the law, 2 per cent of the amount allocated for the realization of public works must be reserved for the execution of artistic embellishments of the same. The law has undergone many variations from that circular until today, often falling victim to the superficiality of administrations. An audiovisual tale about urban spaces enriched by artworks in which the not always harmonious relationship with the users, the citizens, is highlighted.
- A story of great women set in an impervious nature, told among the silence of the left unsaid.
- It follows Francesco Giuffrida, an honest Sicilian politician from childhood to his disappearance.
- Ivan and Chiara meet on a beautiful Sicilian island to prepare for the wedding of Ivan's brother and Chiara's best friend. Despite the fact that Ivan is determined not to repeat the failure of his last relationship and Chiara does not want to jeopardise her marriage, the two fall in love with each other. They resolve to live their relationship for only a few days and then break it off when the wedding guests arrive on the island. However, they made such a plan, without taking love into account...
- Corrado, a policeman for the European task force in charge of immigration control, is on a field assignment in Libya. During a night patrol in the desert, he meets Swada, a young Somaliwoman who left her war-ravaged country.
- The true story of 17-year-old Sicilian Rita Atria (Veronica D'Agostino) -- who broke the Sicilian Mafia's code of silence and testified against the "family business" after both her father and then her brother are both murdered -- is brought to vivid life in Marco Amenta's hard-hitting and wonderfully acted drama.
- After a deadly accident, Paolo comes back on Earth just 92 minutes more, thanks to a calculation error made in a paradise office.
- Inspired by the autobiography of Tommaso Bordonaro "La Spartenza", who won the Pieve prize in 1990. Spartenza means separation and departure.
- In an old warehouse, on the outskirts of the Sicilian capital, a group of people crushes their arms and legs with a trolley full of gym weights
- When it comes to love, Carmen is too intense. She loves too much, and the world won't forgive her for that. It's over between her and Massimo, but she still considers him the love of her life. She adores Giada, their daughter, now five; but Massimo has custody, and Carmen can only see her every two weeks. Which she can't accept. She knows she's made mistakes, yet she also knows she's a good mother and won't let history repeat itself: she won't let what happened to her as a child happen to Giada. If the world is really out to destroy Carmen - is how she sees it - Carmen will change the world.
- A Road Movie by sail boat from Sicily to UK in Brexit era.
- A famous movie star and mother of two children who have no self-estimation, has organized an evening in her luxurious home to celebrate her latest film. The evening highlights the different aspects, often unpleasant, of the relationship among the guests. A little symbolic insight, somewhat unforgiving, into the world of showbusiness, seen as a repository of hypocrisy, envy, and jealousy. An ensemble film closed in time and space with the intention of playing with languages and cultures.
- Documentary about the practice of exorcism and people's issues of everyday life: the contrasts between ancient traditions and modern habits.
- Inspired by a true story LIKE THE WIND narrates 15 years of Armida Miserere's life, a woman who with determination and grit, but also personal suffering, was one of the first woman to become governor of prison. Armida Miserere, after suffering the loss of her loved one, found herself on the front line in the fight against crime, governing the most dangerous jail in Italy, while struggling to find the truth and to get justice. The film is conceived as long flashback that highlights the most important moments of her life in the attempt to unveil her mystery.
- A mafia killer accepts to take the identity of his last victim in order to redeem his past. Two games of chess - one with his victim, the other with his boss - will stress the turning points of this change. The killer meet his victim on a ship that carries back together in Sicily 40 years after their departure. Only one will arrive in Sicily, but he'll chose to change his life and complete the destiny of the other one.
- A 13-year-old girl in the deprived outskirts of a sprawling Sicilian city becomes a local celebrity to her needy community when word spreads that she just might be able to perform miracles.
- Based on the historical novel by Andrea Camilleri, The Vanishing of Patò is set in Vigàta, the town that Detective Montalbano fans know and love...but it's 1890, Easter weekend. Two rival investigators look into the disappearance of Antonio Patò, a quiet accountant who vanishes after his performance as Judas in the town's annual Passion Play.
- On the 25th anniversary of Capaci and via D'Amelio bombings, Franco Maresco wonders what's left of their ideals and struggles in contemporary Sicily, dwelling on its relationship with the Mafia.
- How, in the 11th century, Normans from Hauteville-la-Guichard in the Cotentin region founded a prosperous monarchy in the heart of the Mediterranean - The little-known story of the golden age of medieval Sicily.
- Joe Lovano, one of the best current jazz musicians, played his interpretations of John Coltrane's most iconic pieces at Palermo's Verdura theater.
- A symphony of landscapes of today and yesterday, archive footage and electronic music, lands near and far. An invented language, neither Italian nor dialect, as musical and expressive as that of a storyteller. Born in 1899, the illiterate Sicilian Vincenzo Rabito recounts the 20th century through thousands of thick typewritten pages collected in notebooks tied with string. From extreme poverty to the economic boom, it is a century of wars and misfortunes, but also of redemption and work. The unprecedented point of view is that of a last man who, writing his own autobiography, rereads the history of Italy in a passionate and overwhelming narrative that excites and moves, forcing one to come to terms with contradictory and uncomfortable truths.
- "Amate Sponde" is a symphony about Italy which recounts its fragile naturalistic and geological beauty.
- How a great love became a masterpiece of European literature: the fascinating story of how the novel "The Leopard" came to be written. When Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa died in 1957, he was penniless. One year later, his only novel The Leopard was published and became an overnight success. Luchino Visconti's eponymous film won the Palme D'Or at Cannes in 1963. The story of how the book came to be written is largely unknown. It's based on the relationship between the writer and his Baltic German wife and how they lost almost everything against the background of the massive upheavals in Europe and who nonetheless managed to reinvent themselves.
- A progressive teacher tries to help four working class Palermo teenagers, during their last year at middle school.