Luca Guadagnino Explains Why He Just Had to Produce Giovanni Tortorici’s Coming-of-Age Drama ‘Ketticè’ in a “Sterile” Italian Film Landscape

The Italian filmmaker came to the Swiss festival to speak about his ex-assistant Giovanni Tortorici's second feature about young people, failed by schools and adults, whose cast includes Monica Bellucci.

Emerging Italian director Giovanni Tortorici, whose feature debut “Diciannove” made a splash last year after launcing from the Venice Horizons section, is in competition at the Locarno Film Festival with his followup, “Ketticè,” a coming-of-age drama set in 2012 Palermo, featuring Monica Bellucci who is among the film’

Call Me By Your Name and Challengers director Luca Guadagnino is set to receive the Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award of the 83rd Venice International Film Festival (September 2nd – 12th, 2026). The award is bestowed on “a personality who has made a particularly original contribution to the contemporary film industr

Films about Philly’s rumba dance roots to the femme-powered emcees who built hip-hop will take center stage at this year’s festival. All made by people who call the city home.