Deliver Us
Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2017
June 1 - 23, 2017
Winner of the Orrizonti Prize at last year’s Venice Film Festival, Federica Di Giacomo’s unsentimental documentary follows Father Cataldo, a Sicilian priest and exorcist sought out by Catholics who believe themselves to be possessed.
Winner of the Orrizonti Prize at last year’s Venice Film Festival, Deliver Us follows Father Cataldo, a Sicilian priest sought out by Catholics who believe themselves to be possessed. In between capturing the religious rites he performs on his clients—by turns frightening, profane, and absurd—Di Giacomo’s documentary peers into the private lives of the afflicted: everyday people drawn to the church out of desperation who discuss their demonic interactions as though they were mere medical conditions. Avoiding cliché and easy sentimentality, Deliver offers a fresh perspective on the psychology underlying the continued practice of exorcism in the modern world. An Uncork’d Entertainment release.
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