Father Cataldo Migliazzo is a well-known exorcist in Palermo. Dozens of people regularly come to him to be saved from the devil. Every Tuesday Gloria, Enrico, Anna, and Giulia, along with many others, attend Father Cataldo’s mass for deliverance, trying to find a cure for their disease that has neither answer nor a name. When necessary, Father also performs mini-exorcisms on his cell phone, closing jovially with best regards for the rest of the afflicted’s family. Father Cataldo is only one in an army of exorcists encouraged by the Catholic Church. Emerging demand of specialist raises a lot of questions - is it a mental dissorder, autosuggestion or devil that possess?
Awards
Italian Documentary Academy Awards – Best Director / Film, 2016
Venice Film Festival – Venice Horizons Award, 2016
Federica Di Giacomo
Frederica Di Giacomo, from La Spezia, graduated in anthropology from the University of Florence, a city where she worked for some years in theater and dance. She trained in Dresden with the Russian group “Derevo”. In 2006 she made her first full-length documentary film “The Grotesque Side of Life”, which was awarded a prize by the Turin Film Festival, among others.
Filmography
Housing (2009)
The Grotesque Side of Life (Il lato grottesco della vita, 2006)
Director: Federica Di Giacomo
Screenplay: Federica Di Giacomo
Cinematography: Greta De Lazzaris, Carlo Sisalli
Editing: Aline Hervé, Edoardo Morabito
Producers: Francesco Virga, Paolo Santoni
Production: Mir Cinematografica S.r.l, Opera Films, RAI Cinema, France 3 Cinéma
Italy, France, 2016, orig. language, english, lithuanian subtitle, 89'