Documentary about a medical malpractice case in the UK.
The film charts the haunting story of an Italian woman forced into marriage, who leaves her family in Italy behind for the United States.
Director: Maria Rapicavoli | Assistant Director: Annamaria Craparotta | DOP: Giacomo Belletti | Produced by Tinygiant
Life-changing, reconstructive facial surgery for babies and children in Pakistan.
Following a British breast surgeon teaching and operating on breast cancer cases in Lahore, Pakistan.
A short film made by four refugees from Sierra Leone, Gambia, Ivory Coast and Nigeria. The film is the result of a filmmaking workshop hosted in Mazara del Vallo, Sicily.
Workshop tutor: Annamaria Craparotta
Back in her hometown, the director faces some very uncomfortable questions about her life in a conversation with her grandmother.
Home visit becomes a chance to frame a life-changing moment.
How does it feel to grow up in Palermo, in those years where it was not even possible to say the word mafia?
Don’t talk about mafia is a journey through the memories of Maria, who as a teenager lived with her family right in front of that field studded with daisies where the Bunker Hall was built - a building specially built in 1985 to house the Maxi Trial against the mafia, the biggest penal trial in history.
Entrepreneurs, activists, farmers, politicians, artists, travellers. They are flexible, dynamic, curious, open to new views, ambitious, moving, ranging between nations, cultures and disciplines .
They see obstacles as opportunities.
Director: Mariachiara Salvi | Producer: Annamaria Craparotta | DOP: Matteo Sandrini
On the notes of the homonymous song written and composed by the Sicilian singer Cassandra Raffaele, Valentina tells the story of a young woman and her coming out.
Indivisible Cities takes inspiration and from the book Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino.
Nine microcosms within the city of Favara as a metaphor of contemporary Sicily, through collapsed buildings, defeatism, timeless interiors, jarring contradictions, common desires and possibilities of socio-cultural redemption.
I MURI is a song written, arranged and produced by Cassandra Raffaele, strongly inspired by the life of Peppino Impastato, a Sicilian activist killed by the mafia 1978. Sponsored by Casa Memoria Felicia and Peppino Impastato, this music film was shot in Cinisi, between Casa Memoria and the former Badalamenti house, confiscated to the mafia.
December 2014, New York City.
Thousands of people took to the streets to say no to police brutality and racism. We asked them what were their reasons to protest.
Short film about an opera singer living in Sicily.
Photo: Rene Ricciardi
A collective film as result of the workshop Docma 13, produced by Polifilm.
Between one interview and another, 12 participants worked together, making a short film that restores the essence of the Macello district, in Mazara del Vallo (Sicily).
Workshop tutor: Annamaria Craparotta
Gibellina Nuova is a new-town built after 1968’s earthquake that hit the Belice Valley, Sicily.
Carta Bianca is a tale inspired by Gibellina’s inhabitants wish to tell their story and their relation with their new home: immense spaces and formidable silences.