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In Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy, actor John Turturro takes audiences on a haunting, intimate journey to his maternal homeland of Sicily.

Haitian couple who work on a sugar cane plantation in the Dominican Republic escape the desperate conditions of the 'bateyes' (cane cutters' communities) and make their way back to Haiti.

The success of an individual is down to a variety of factors. Talent isn't enough and ability needs the right environment in which to express itself. Without tenacity and determination opportunities can by-pass talent and disappear into thin air. Sometimes, generation upon generation have to live and die before the right ingredients come together. This is the story of Nane', a girl who didn't know how to read or write. She wasn't just any other girl even though her family had lived in the same house for generations, and her father did the same job as her grandfather. She spent her life with her feet on the ground but her head in the clouds, cultivating a dream that will never come true. And this is also the story of Sara whose dream came true - but it wasn't hers.

From New York to Naples: award-winning actor John Turturro celebrates his origins and Naples' rich culture while reviving Eduardo De Filippo's play

Jail is the enlightened improvement over medieval torture, and definitely represents one of the most important steps of Western society in its evolution from absolutism to modern democracy. But when Foucault wrote that the eighteenth century had invented freedom, he also noted that this freedom came at a price: discipline. Those who stray from discipline lose their freedom. An inmate is essentially denied his freedom of choice, so that the State can insert itself in the spiritual space left vacant by this absence of freedom and rehabilitate him. The story of Bobby is that of a modern martyr. It demonstrates that, even in the darkest, most extreme conditions of stifled freedom, a man can go on making choices, and thus continue to feel like a human being. This film agrees with Kafka when he writes that martyrs do not make light of their bodies, but rather they make their way to the cross so that they can become an example, and in this sense - but only in this - they find themselves in agreement with their enemies.