Paride Benassai

During a sun-soaked Sicilian summer, aimless filmmaking undergrad and back-seat radical Tanino has a fling with Sally, a dreamy American tourist from an upper background. When summer ends, Sally flies back home, without ever reaching out. Clueless, a smitten Tanino decides to pay her a surprise visit under the pretense of returning a camera she left behind. But when he gets there, he quickly realizes the reality of America—and his relationship with Sally's—is far from the idealized version his small-town boy imagination conjured.

Faşizme ve mafyaya karşı oldukları için komünist partiye üye olan, yoksul Sicilyalı bir ailenin 1930’lardan günümüze dek süren macerası. Bavyera doğumlu yönetmen Tornatore otobiyografik özellikler içeren bu filminde, çocukluğunu geçirdiği Sicilya'yı üç kuşağa yayılan bir öykü üzerinden anlatıyor...

Sicilya’nın küçük bir kasabası olan Pietrammare’de belediye başkanı seçimleri yaklaşmaktadır. Uzun yıllardır belediye başkanlığını yürüten düzenbaz Gaetano Patane tekrar kazanmak ve iktidarı elinde tutmak adına her türlü dalavereye başvurmaya hazırdır. İnsanlar politikanın al gülüm ver gülüm haline alışmış ve akışına bırakmışken belediye başkanının bu sefer rakibi, ilk politik deneyiminin getirdiği cesaret ve ideallerle dolu, 50 yaşındaki dürüst ve ahlaklı profesör Pierpaolo Natoli’dir. Tüm engellere rağmen Pierapaolo kazanır ve kasabayı kanunlara ve kurallara saygılı bir biçimde yönettiği yeni dönem başlar. Ancak Pietrammare halkı buna hazırlar mıdır?

6th January 1975, in an infant nursery in Palermo (Italy), for a mysterious reason, a male nurse exchanges the labels of baby number 7 and 8. Thirty-one years later Tommaso (7) and Daniele (8) meet each other by accident.

A solitary, disappointed, proud and educated old man meets and becomes the teacher of an intelligent, clumsy, middle-class, young would-be writer.

Three houses, three boys, the same goal: to win the competition for a position as an employee in the legal office of the city. Federico, a law graduate, but only to please his father counsellor, hopes for his recommendation; Fabrizio, lawyer on paper but not practicing in life, tries to overcome the umpteenth public test and Luca, who since he was born has always had the road open. Only for one of them will the dream of a lifetime come true, until things take an unexpected turn.

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.

The story of Romeo and Juliet is exactly the opposite: two families, the Casisa and the Vitrano, who adore each other, and their two children, Anna and Claudio, students away from home and longtime lovers, who hate each other and want nothing to do with each other. When they return home, the two find an idyllic situation: the friendship between their families is so strong that they've even joined forces in business. The Casisa, ricotta producers, and the Vitrano, producers of cannoli shells, will sell "the lovers' cannoli," for which Claudio and Anna will be the unwitting ambassadors. It's so difficult to tarnish that picture that the two not only lack the courage to admit they've broken up, but, gripped by an increasingly childish fear, they complicate matters by telling outright lies: not only do they announce their wedding, but also the imminent birth of a child. From here, a hilarious game of misunderstandings begins, which will lead them to commit the wrong elopement.

In Palermo, in July '92, a bomb in Via d'Amelio kills Paolo Borsellino and five others, just 57 days after Falcone's death. The mafia massacre begins a judicial process that reveals the weaknesses of the State.

Bir sanatçı, İtalya'da bir şefe aşık olunca hayatını değiştiren, kültürler ve kıtalar arası bir aşk, kayıp, direnç ve umut yolculuğuna çıkar.