Shakespeare a Palermo

In the late 1990s, in a dilapidated theater in the heart of Palermo, Carlo Cecchi is working on a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the second play in his Shakespearean trilogy, translated by the poet Patrizia Cavalli. Director Francesca Comencini – who sees Cecchi as the last representative of an Italy not subservient to the media and Berlusconi’s power – decides to follow him and is allowed to film the show’s rehearsals, on the condition that she does it all on her own and with discretion.

• Director: Francesca Comencini
• Cast: Carlo Cecchi, Iaia Forte, Valerio Binasco, Arturo Cirillo, Vito Di Bella, Viola Graziosi, Andre Pushkin, Lorenza Indovina