(22 December, 2016) Asinara, 1985. A night like any other, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino land on the island with their families. The transfer is sudden, swift, there is no time for packing – the threat of an attack on the two judges and their families mandated by the leaders of Cosa Nostra, intercepted by the Carabineri dell’Ucciardone is real. This is the opening scene of “Era d’estate” in theatres 23 and 24 May, 2016. The film was directed by Infascelli 24 years after the Capaci tragedy and focuses on the human relationship between Falcone and Borsellino. The film will be screened at the Italian Cultural Institute of Brussels on 9 January. An opportunity for the public to learn about two Italian heroes who have left their mark on Italian history.

THE DIRECTOR

Fiorella Infascelli, born in Rome, started her professional career as a photographer. She currently writes for the weekly publications Il Mondo, l’Espresso, and for Sygma agency. Her main contributions are articles on Morocco, the United States, the set of Fellini’s Casanova as well as profiles of figures from American music and culture. She then began working in cinema first as an assistant director and later as deputy director with Emidio Greco in “L’invenzione di Morel”; Giuseppe Bertolucci in “Berlinguer ti voglio bene”; Pier Paolo Pasolini in “Salò le 120 giornate di Sodoma”; and Bernardo Bertolucci in “La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo”. She starts directing her own movies in the 1980s with “Ladra di sogni”, the story of a blind comedian featuring Roberto Benigni. In 2011 she directs “Pugni chiusi”, the story of blue-collar workers in the petrochemical industry of Porto Torres in Sardinia who secluded themselves in the Asinara abandoned prison for one year and a half following the shut-down of the Vinyls factory. The movie was presented at the Vince Film Festival in the” Controcampo Italiano” section where it was voted best documentary and won the “Osella” award for photography. She has also shot commercials for Pavesi, Il Corriere della Sera, and Laura Biagiotti.