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Sicilian Ghost Story
Inspired by the tragic true story of a 12-year-old boy, who was kidnapped in 1993 by the Mafia and held prisoner for more than two years in order to silence the tongue of his informant father, A Sicilian Ghost Story tenderly sketches the relationship between two children with flashes of magical realism. Luna (Julia Jedlikowska) has a crush on her classmate Giuseppe (Gaetano Fernandez), which the girl's controlling mother Saveria (Sabine Timoteo) tries to extinguish because she is painfully aware of the criminal connections of Giuseppe's father. Soon afterwards, the Mafia kidnaps Giuseppe and chains the boy to a bed in a cabin in the woods. Giuseppe's disappearance goes unexplained and Luna distributes flyers to neighbours with the help of her good friend Loredana (Corinne Musallari). A veil of silence hangs over the community but Luna is determined to rescue Giuseppe from his captors, who she has glimpsed in her dreams. She repeatedly sneaks out of the house to search for clues and puts her life in danger to unearth the shocking truth.
