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SICILIAN LETTERS
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• Director: Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza
• ITALY, FRANCE / 2024 / DCP / Colour / 130’ / Italian, Sicilian; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza
• Director of Photography: Luca Bigazzi
• Editing: Paola Freddi
• Music: Colapesce
• Cast: Toni Servillo, Elio Germano, Daniela Marra, Barbora Bobulova, Giuseppe Tantillo, Fausto Russo Alesi, Antonia Truppo, Tommaso Ragno, Betti Pedrazzi, Filippo Luna, Rosario Palazzolo, Roberto De Francesco, Vincenzo Ferrera, Maurizio Marchetti, Gianluca Zaccaria, Lucio Patanè
• Producer: Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima, Carlotta Calori, Viola Prestieri
• Production Co.: Indigo Film
• World Sales: Les Films du Losange

2024 Venice Lizzani Award Best Italian Film, National Syndicate of Film Journalists Best Film

Sicily, 2004… After serving several years in prison for Mafia-related crimes, Catello, a long-serving politician, has lost everything. When the Italian Secret Service ’persuades’ him to help capture Matteo, the last major Mafia boss still on the run, he sees an opportunity to stage a comeback. A shrewd man of a hundred masks, a tireless illusionist who turns truth into falsehood and falsehood into truth, Catello begins a correspondence with Matteo, exploiting the younger man’s emotional emptiness. The letters provide a surprising and unexpected glimpse into the private life of this notorious criminal – both a serial murderer and an enthusiastic intellectual, who harboured immense secrets. Bringing together two great Italian actors, Toni Servillo and Elio Germano as two mafia bosses, Sicilian Letters had its world premiere at Venice.

Screened with the support of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Istanbul.

* In accordance with Article 7 of the Law No. 5224 amended on 18.01.2019, cinema films that have not been reviewed and classified can only be screened in festivals, special screenings and similar cultural and artistic events with an 18+ age restriction.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.