Liberami
On his election Pope Benedict XVI not only publicly acknowledged Satan’s real existence but also suggested that the Italian Bishops should elect at least one exorcist in every diocese. Of the one hundred exorcist priests registered throughout Italy, twenty operate in Sicily. They work non-stop, so much that specialized operators are insufficient to meet the sudden rise in demand. The film crosses a more abstract level; from the story about the international training courses in Rome, to the stories of the four people who go every Thursday to the little church in the heart of Palermo; amongst the crowd of faithful, they follow the exorcist mass held by Father Ctaldo, a veteran, and the most sought after exorcist in the liberation trade.
Born in La Spezia. She graduated from the University of Florence in anthropology. In 1999 she attained a MA degree on European Creative Documentary at the Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. Since 2000 she has been creating documentaries for Raisat Cinema and other broadcasters. Her documentary Il lato grottesco della vita won the CIPPUTI and Avanti award at Turin film Festival 2006, and “best documentary” at Etno film fest 2007. her last documentary Housing, was selected at Hotdocs Toronto and Locarno, Turin, Copenaghen, Thessaloniky, and Reykyavik Film Festivals.
She has been working with Sacher films of Nanni Moretti for a collective documentary. She has been teaching documentary master at La Sapienza University of Rome. With the script of Set me free, she won the Solinas award for the best documentary script of 2014.
In post production
90 min
90 min
Ministero dei Beni Culturali / Regione Sicilia / Rai Cinema / Cnc - Procirep
Opera Film (Paolo Santoni) / MIR Cinematografica (Francesco Virga, Davide Pagano)
Opera Film - Paolo Santoni (paolo@operafilms.fr) / MIR Cinematografica - Davide Pagano (d.pagano@mircinema.com)
