Movies: Erri De Luca

Based on Jean Cocteau's iconic one-woman play of the same name; set against the backdrop of 1950 Naples, Angela is a woman in her twilight years, who rides the emotional rollercoaster of her last telephone conversation with the man she loves as he is...

PIIGS is a documentary that challenges prevalent European budgetary policies and the austerity dogma. It does so by bringing in lesser-known facts and evidence that have the effect of ridiculing prevalent European monetary policies and dominant polit...

On a remote Italian island in the early 1960s, a teenage boy haunted by memories of the war falls in love with an older girl who holds a dark secret. Based on the novel "Tu, Mio," by Erri De Luca....

Matteo and Sonia meet in a hospital on the eve of their respective open heart surgeries. They share a common passion for mountaineering and make a vow that if their operations succeed, they will meet in 6 months time to climb together a peak in the I...

The film recounts Carlo Giuliani’s day of July 20 and, parallel to it, the July 20 of the march of the ‘disobedients’, or the ‘white overalls’, among whose ranks Carlo died. An individual’s story is told in all its absolute concreteness, the friends...

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A coming of age story of boy Turi and his younger sister Teresa on an island off the coast of Sicily....

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Trees that walk is a documentary based on an idea of the Italian writer Erri De Luca and it was filmed in Trentino and Puglia, Italy. This documentary wants to recount the life of the trees and their deep relationship with people that every day work ...

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Vittoria Belcastro, a Calabrian oncologist, telis of her long battle against cancer, which she won. Her therapy is based on respect for life, but also for the disease. Two literary testimonies serve to counterpoint her touching words: "Pozzi d'amore ...

The film follows a community of non-professional climbers for six months and sees the participation of the writer Erri De Luca....