Sicilian Sulfur

A documentary short on sulphur mining in Sicilia with a focus on the transition from traditional to new methods of extraction, the living conditions of the workers and the various, sometimes unexpected uses of sulphur in

With Jan in Sicily in the Summer of 2004

Sicily!

A man returns to visit his native Sicily after living in New York for a long time. He learns about the Sicilian way of life from stylized conversations with an orange picker, his fellow train passengers, his mother, and

On the Footsteps of Goethe in Sicily

On April 2nd, 1787, Wolfgang von Goethe arrived in Palermo during a journey that lasted forty days, which he then described in Italian Journey. Peter Stein, a stage and opera director, retraces the footsteps of the Germa

Naked Sicilian Wife

A chaste and naive girl moves from rural Sicily to Milan after a shotgun marriage, losing many of her inhibitions and finding her true self in the process.

Don Juan in Sicily

Giovanni Percolla lives in Catania surrounded by the attentive cares of his three sisters. He permanently acts like a Don Giovanni to hide his real poor "knowledge" of women. With his friend he moves also to Rome but wom

Laura Citarella for Sicilia Queer 2025

Trenque Lauquen's Ezequiel believes he is keeping on searching for Laura in the Argentine pampas, but the landscape confuses and disorients him, becoming increasingly jagged and disconnected: a radio that cannot definiti

Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy

John Turturro goes back to the land of his ancestors.

Shoot on the sicario

A hitman from China arrives in Rome to kidnap Irene, the daughter of an official who is guilty of leaving debts unpaid to the mafia, but things will not go as planned.

Sickies Making Films

A love letter to film history, Sickies Making Films looks at our urge to censor movies and asks, Why? By focusing on the Maryland Board of Censors, the nation's longest lasting censor board, we discover reasons both absu

Belluscone: A Sicilian Story

This film tells the story of three defeats: Berlusconi’s political and human defeat in his “twilight”, the one of Ciccio Mirra, Berlusconi’s unconditional supporter, deeply rooted in an ancient culture that dies hard, an

The Big Sick

Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face her feisty parents,

Montalbano's Sicily

Alberto Angela celebrates the centenary of Andrea Camilleri's birth with a trip to the places of Inspector Montalbano, including Scicli, Ragusa and the Valley of the Temples, meeting the cast of the series and paying hom

The Sicilian

A brave little couturier from Lyon, Fernand, travels to Paris to present his creation "La ligne Impériale" to a major fashion house. Following a misunderstanding, he is mistaken by a gang of gangsters for "Le Sicilien",

A Dream of Sicily

A 52-minute documentary profile of Giuseppe Tornatore featuring interviews with director and extracts from his early home movies as well as interviews with director Francesco Rosi and painter Peppino Ducato, set to music

Sicily

This short documentary offers a visual portrait of Sicily as observed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Composed as a series of images rather than a narrative account, the film presents Antonioni’s impressions of the landscape

Who Am I

Benjamin, a young German computer whiz, is invited to join a subversive hacker group that wants to be noticed on the world's stage.

Giuseppe Verdi: Les vêpres siciliennes @ Teatro Massimo, Palermo

Premiering the French version in Palermo Grand-opéra in five acts

Sicilian Uprising

Sicilian Uprising or Sicilian Vespers is a 1949 Italian historical drama film directed by Giorgio Pastina and starring Marina Berti, Clara Calamai and Roldano Lupi.

Sicilians of Africa

The migratory routes of Italians to Africa in past centuries are little known to the public and even less comprehensively covered in history books. A fascinating but also painful historical chronicle that still involves