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Lucio Fulci is one of my favorite filmmakers. His movies, particularly his thrillers of the 1970s and his horror films of the 1980s, are beautiful and bloody and enigmatic. The man himself is just as much an enigma: he was a prolific director of comedies and westerns before transitioning to gialli and, eventually, some of the most hardcore horror films ever made. His life is marked by illness and tragedy, events which no doubt inform his work. He was known by those who worked with him as a tyrant and a grouch, a spirited collaborator and gifted artist. But who was Lucio Fulci really? This is the question at the center of Fulci for Fake, director Simone Scafidi’s fascinating documentary and the first biopic ever made about the maestro of Italian horror.

Combining interviews with friends, collaborators, and family members (including both of his daughters) with actual home movie...

Exclusive: Quirky road trip comedy follows journey from Italy to small village in Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine.

Paris-based sales company Premium Films has announced first deals on Italian director Andrea Magnani’s road trip comedy Easy (pictured) ahead of its premiere in the Filmmakers of the Present competition at Locarno.

The debut feature has sold to China (Lemon Tree), Turkey (Fabula) and Ukraine (Multi Media Distribution) ahead of the screening. Tucker Film will release the picture in Italy on August 31.

Rising Italian comedy actor Nicola Nocella stars as a Isidoro, a former teenage go-cart champion going by the nickname of Easy, who has fallen prey to depression and obesity in adulthood.

His dynamic, ultra-successful brother Filo gives Easy a challenge that will get him behind the wheel again: to drive a coffin from Italy to a small village in the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine.

It is an Italian-Ukrainian co-production involving Kiev-based Fresh Production Group alongside Italy’s Pilgrim...