Emanuele Crialese
1) L'Immensita
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Clara (Penélope Cruz) and Felice struggle to raise their three children in 1970s Rome. The eldest, Andrew, is transgender and yearns for another life where he gets to live as the boy he knows himself to be. Clara instinctively strives to protect her son by escaping into their imaginations to defuse family tensions. L'IMMENSITA is a creative and moving film about growing up and breaking the mold.
2) Terraferma
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
Set on and around a summer tourist island off the coast of Sicily, TERRAFERMA tells the story of two struggling, yet disparate families, whose members become fatefully intertwined. A well-intentioned, but illegal rescue of immigrant "boat people" forces the individuals of the indigenous family to choose between their economic survival and doing the morally right thing.
3) Golden Door
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
When a Sicilian family is visited by a man who tells them that America is a land of plenty, the Mancusos cautiously accept his offer to take them to America in 1913. After a dangerous voyage aboard an ocean liner, the family arrives in New York to face a number of new challenges, as they abandon their old lives and struggle to assimilate in a massive city that is now their home.