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Toxicily

2024 · 70 min

A quiet, sobering look at a poisoned landscape and the people who live with it, leaving a lingering sense of injustice and resignation.

Directed by
François-Xavier Destors, Alfonso Pinto
Genres
Documentary
Overview
"Better to die of cancer than of hunger," are words you may well hear on Priolo beach in Sicily. In the shadows of the lovely city of Syracuse lies one of Europe's largest petrochemical complexes. 70 years after the arrival of the first refineries, the area seems to have been abandoned to its fate as poison taints the sky, water and land. Woven around fragments supplied by residents who resist, are resigned or choose to look the other way, the film Toxic Sicily sets out to tell the tale of a place sacrificed on the altar of progress, modernity and globalisation.

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Directed by
François-Xavier Destors, Alfonso Pinto
Genres
Documentary
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    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
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    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • environment
    • corruption
    • survival
    • class
    • power
    Places
    • countryside
    • sea
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • documentary
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence none
    • Sex none
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    Action1
    Horror2
    Humour1
    Realism10
    Romance0
    Tension4
    Darkness7
    Complexity5
    Emotional weight7

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    Genres
    documentary
    Directed by
    François-Xavier Destors, Alfonso Pinto
    Runtime
    70 min
    Country
    France, Italy
    Languages
    Italian

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