Sicilian Letters
Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2025
May 29 - June 5, 2025
Matteo, a fugitive mob boss in hiding (Elio Germano), begins a curious correspondence with a former acquaintance of his father’s (Toni Servillo), a corrupt politician who is fresh off a prison sentence—and who is also helping the police to track Matteo down.
In the new film by Antonio Piazza and Fabio Grassadonia (Sicilian Ghost Story, Open Roads 2018), Matteo (Elio Germano), a fugitive mob boss in hiding, begins a curious correspondence with a former acquaintance of his father’s, his godfather Catello (Toni Servillo), a corrupt politician fresh off a prison sentence. Their letters find the two men quickly re-forming their friendship, but this bond is complicated by the fact that Catello is not-so-secretly helping the police to locate and capture Matteo, plus Catello has his own agenda…. Inspired by real events and fueled by magnetic performances from Germano and Servillo, Sicilian Letters finds Piazza and Grassadonia once again revitalizing our sense of the Italian crime film. The film took home multiple critics’ awards at its Venice Film Festival premiere.
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