Lucia Sardo

"I cento passi" (one hundred steps) was the distance between the Impastatos' house and the house of Tano Badalamenti, an important Mafia boss, in the small Sicilian town of Cinisi. The movie is the story of Peppino Impastato, a young left-wing activist that in the late seventies (when almost nobody dared to speak about Mafia, and several politicians maintained that Mafia did not even exist) repeatedly denounced Badalamenti crimes and the whole Mafia system using a small local radio station... (imdb)

Orlanda, Liuccia, Milù, Blu Blu and Veronica live all in Palermo. And they all are prostitutes (Buttane). We can see them spending their days among clients and desperation. Some got children, some got problems with the pimps, some are more desperate than others, but their destinies are more or less the same. (imdb)

A 13-year-old girl in the deprived outskirts of a sprawling Sicilian city becomes a local celebrity to her needy community when word spreads that she just might be able to perform miracles. (imdb)

Eight people, of different ages and with different stories, live in Rome united only because they are in the same therapy group. This includes three women and four men, whose stories show in a comical way, from choral scenes to more intimate ones, the frailty but also the wish to change and the ability to react typical of our contemporaries. (archivio.festivaldelcinemaeuropeo)

The last days of The Poet, a thinly veiled pseudonym for filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Poor men and exploited boys work as miners in a sulfur mine.