Misericordia
1 min
Available from 01/08/2026
A film that takes place in a small fishing village in Sicily made up of ramshackle stone huts, surrounded by rubbish and scrap metal. Behind it lies a majestic mountain. It is here that Arturo is born and raised, a child of poverty and violence; it is here that his mother dies giving birth to him. Betta, Nuccia and young Anna, prostitutes like his mother was, look after him as if he were their own son, in the mercy of a desperate love made up of caresses and impatience, cruelty and tenderness.
Arturo turns 18; at times he still seems like a child, at others he appears very old. He was born with a disability; he moves in a strange way; he engages with the world with a different soul. He looks at the people around him as he would the mountain he is climbing: Without fear. He is an invisible among the invisible and must fight, like everyone else in Contrada Tuono, to survive, but his pure and different way of seeing the world carries hope within him.
Arturo turns 18; at times he still seems like a child, at others he appears very old. He was born with a disability; he moves in a strange way; he engages with the world with a different soul. He looks at the people around him as he would the mountain he is climbing: Without fear. He is an invisible among the invisible and must fight, like everyone else in Contrada Tuono, to survive, but his pure and different way of seeing the world carries hope within him.
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