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Land Of Saints

La terra dei santi
Australian Premiere

CAST

  • Valeria Solarino
  • Lorenza Indovina
  • Daniela Marra
  • Ninni Bruschetta
Italy | 2014 | 81 mins
Drama
Congratulations to [director] Fernando Muraca for this work. Recommended.
Il Giornale
DIRECTOR Fernando Muraca

After graduating in 1992 in film history at the University La Sapienza in Rome, Fernando Muraca began working as a director and playwright. Following this, he worked as a screenwriter and story editor for television and in 2000 he began his career as a director both for television and film including the series Inspector Rex. Land of Saints is his debut feature film.

Ambitious magistrate Vittoria (Valeria Solarino, I Can Quit Whenever I Want, LIFF14) makes the dramatic decision to relocate from the north to the south of Italy with one mission in mind – to defeat the Calabrian ‘‘Ndrangheta’ mafia. She is flabbergasted by the violence, the cruelty and the killings that Mafia men project – even youngsters are not spared. But instead of targeting the men, Vittoria tries a new approach; an appeal to the women involved in these circles. The bosses’ wives are as hard as nails; they will not talk and will not betray their powerful husbands, but could it be they have a soft spot for their own children?

This is a powerful insight into the often unacknowledged women participating in the male-dominated tug-of-war between mafia rings and the law.

*NOT SCREENING IN HOBART

Land of Saints sessions will be preceded by short film Messages from the Outside (Messaggi da fuori) dir. Alessio Pasqua.

Radio announcer Peppino becomes a middle man passing messages between family members and prison inmates, but not all messages are what they seem… Winner: Best Fiction – Genova Film Festival 2014. Courtesy of the Italian Short Film Centre.

  • Official Selection
    • Shanghai International Film Festival 2015
All non-English films screen with English subtitles.

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