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It is the true story of a man called Biagio Conte, a Sicilian who was looking for God and ended up founding a mission to help the homeless and the poorest immigrants of his city. His story starts in the mountains as a shepherd and continues on a long trip to reach Assisi, the home of Saint Francis.
A look at the difficult living conditions in two small mining villages in Bolivia as seen through the eyes of the young children who are forced to work there.
1951, New York: a trial is being celebrated against a big group of Italian-Americans accused of being gangsters. The Court declares them "undesirable" and orders that they must leave the United States territory. 120 of them are sent to Genova, Italy with a ship. Upon their arrival they're received by onlookers, photographers and journalists; among them there is Giancarlo Fusco (Catania), a journalist of the Italian paper "Il Secolo XIX" who has to write a short article. While he's interviewing those strange personages, Fusco recognizes an old classmate, the anarchist Ezio Taddei and, intrigued, decides to deepen his work on this story to carry out an inquiry.
This film, based on a 19th century novel by Giovanni Verga describes the torrid history of three generations of a Sicialian family. The Malavoglia family are fishermen and women. Their story reflects the struggle to live lives of mixed fortune in a changing world.
Antonio is an journalist. A day his chief sends him to Palermo to write a piece about the school where studied Giovanni Falcone: a famous judge killed by the Mafia with his wife and colleague Francesca Morvillo.
A laborer sent into exile during the Fascist era for defending a beggar returns to his hometown after the armistice. He finds it in the throes of peasant revolts and soon becomes the leader of a gang wanted by both the Carabinieri and the Mafia.
Collective film for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with 30 directors each helming a segment about one of the 30 articles of the Declaration.
As a child, Sicilian Placido Rizzotto saw his father imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, and as a young man he fought in World War II, first as a soldier and then as an anti-fascist partisan. These events have left Placido with little taste for petty tyranny and with a desire to promote social justice. Upon his return home, he becomes increasingly aware that the Mafia has taken hold of his village, witnessing angry and frustrated as gangsters control local politics and take whatever they want from the people. Placido helps to form a trade union as a challenge to the Mafia's authority, and attempts to organize the villagers into a collective to grow crops in the fields taken by the Mafia.