Giovanni Martorana

K@biria Noir (2024)

Giovanni, a father, widower, and well-known Sicilian politician does not comprehend his son's homosexuality or his passion for acting. A family drama is born, made up of quarrels and distance from each other. Loneliness pushes the father to seek, through t ...

The Stolen Caravaggio (2018)

Valeria, young secretary of a producer, lives with an eccentric mother and secretly writes for a successful screenwriter, Alessandro. One day, she receives an unusual present from a stranger: it's the plot of a movie about the mysterious but really-happene ...

Pizza and Dates (2015)

After their mosque is expropriated and turned into a hairdresser by the landlord, a community of Muslims in Venice search for a new location. ...

Amiche da morire (2013)

Gilda has long since moved to a small southern island and earns her living as a prostitute in a context suspended between retrograde traditions and modernity. During one summer, his destiny intersects with that of Olivia and Crocetta, two women from the ar ...

Gli intrepidi (2012)

Sins (2012)

David begins experiencing cloudy memories of a long-lost life amidst the violent Cortello family in Sicily, a family he ultimately betrayed. And the wages of sin are deadly. ...

La matassa (2009)

Two cousins haven't spoken for almost twenty years, thanks to the enmity that their fathers feel toward one another. But an accident suddenly brings the cousins back together and thrusts them deep into the heart of the mafia. ...

The Demons of St. Petersburg (2008)

St. Petersburg, 1860. After a member of the imperial family is assassinated, Fyodor Dostoevsky meets one of the conspirators, who reveals that his comrades are planning another attack to the Tsar's life. Plagued by debts and struggling to finish his latest ...

I, the Other (2007)

Giuseppe, a Sicilian fisherman, and Yousef, an exiled Tunisian, share a friendship, a fishing business and "Medea," the vessel on which they ply their trade. Then, while they are at sea, the fears of the post-9/11 world shatter their idyllic relationship. ...

Once You're Born You Can No Longer Hide (2005)

The life of a Northern Italian middle-class family is turned upside down after their 12-year-old son falls overboard during a sea trip, only to be picked up by a boat of illegal immigrants. ...

The Best of Youth (2003)

After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades. ...

Malena (2000)

12-year-old Renato experiences three significant events on the same day: the beginning of the Second World War, getting a bike, and witnessing the arrival of the gorgeous Malèna. Through his eyes, we see the curse of beauty and loneliness of Malena, whose ...