Sicilian Ghost Story
Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2018
May 31 - June 6, 2018
One day after school, 12-year-old Luna (Julia Jedlikowska) follows her classmate crush Giuseppe (Gaetano Fernandez) into a possibly enchanted forest, from which he seems to vanish. Based on true events, the film renders Luna’s quest for the truth as a transfixing blend of realism and mythology. A Strand Releasing release.
Q&A with directors Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza and actors Vincenzo Amato & Filippo Luna at the 6:00pm screening
Winner of the David di Donatello award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza’s spellbinding follow-up to their acclaimed 2013 drama Salvo is by turns fantastic and ripped-from-the-headlines. One day after school, 12-year-old Luna (Julia Jedlikowska) follows her classmate crush Giuseppe (Gaetano Fernandez) into a possibly enchanted forest—and, just like that, he vanishes. Was he kidnapped by the Mafia, for whom his father used to work as an assassin before he turned informant? Grassadonia and Piazza’s film, based on true events, renders Luna’s quest for the truth as a transfixing blend of realism and mythology. A Strand Releasing release.
Beautifully mixes fairy tale and mythological tropes with the harsh reality of a Mafia kidnapping.
—Jay Weissberg, Variety
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