In April, spring awakens and everything becomes greener. Finally, many audiovisual works come to life and are released in theatres and festivals for the public. Here are some new Green Film certified film releases:
Produced by Stefilm International, Era Film, with Rai Cinema. Directed by Virginia Eleuteri Serpieri. In theatres from the 4th of April. An Italian-Lithuanian co-production that deals with the theme of memory, grief, and a saving love.
When I look at Rome, I see my mother. It’s been the case ever since she died.” It’s a summer evening from many years ago: the city is empty, and the final of the soccer world championship is underway. A woman, Teresa, reaches the Tiber and lets herself go into the river…
Produced by Funicular Films, Nanouk Films. Directed by Aina Clotet, Mar Coll, Celia Giraldo, Sara Fantova. The first series obtaining the Green Film certification in Spain, This is not Sweden has been awarded the 2023Prix Europa award for the Best TV Fiction Series of the Year and it opened the Cannes International Series Festival on the 6th of April 2024.
In order to raise their daughters in a more authentic way and far from their respective painful childhoods, Mariana and Samuel move to a mountain neighbourhood in Barcelona, where they find a community of people with similar aspirations. However, when a tragic event shakes the neighbourhood, shattering their dreams, Mariana and Samuel’s convictions begin to unravel, fear takes over, and they get dangerously close to the very thing they were trying to escape
“Il cassetto segreto” is an Italian-Swiss co-production: produced by Indyca, Luce Cinecittà and Rai Cinema, the documentary was shot in Sicily by the Italian director Costanza Quatriglio, it premiered in the Forum Section of the 74th Berlin International Film Festival, and will be in theaters from the 18th of April.
As Sicilian journalist Giuseppe Quatriglio turns 90, his daughter starts filming him. When he dies, she keeps on filming. Boxes become archival materials, as journeys, women and post-war Europe come to the fore. And in the end, there is a father.
TOXICILY
Produced by Ginko Film, Elda Productions, the documentary was shot in Sicily by the French director François-Xavier Destors and the sicilian geographer Alfonso Pinto. Selected at Fipadoc, special mention at the Festival dei Popoli, the documentary will be in theaters from the 18th of April with a tour starting in Sicily.
“Better to die of cancer than of hunger,” are words you may well hear on Priolo beach in Sicily. In the shadows of the lovely city of Syracuse lies one of Europe’s largest petrochemical complexes. 70 years after the arrival of the first refineries, the area seems to have been abandoned to its fate as poison taints the sky, water and land… the film Toxic Sicily sets out to tell the tale of a place sacrificed on the altar of progress, modernity and globalisation.
Produced by Orisa Produzioni, Ghosts City Films and directed by Daniela Porto and Cristiano Bortone, the film deals with the theme of discrimination in the post-war years and premiered at the Bifest – Bari International Film Festival 2024, where it was awarded with the prix ‘Giuliano Montaldo’ for Best Directing and the prix ‘Mariangela Melato’ for best actress (Ludovica Martino).
After the end of World War II, in a small town in Calabria, a story of friendship, a woman’s journey of growth and a challenge against prejudice.
