Franco Maresco is an Italian filmmaker. He is best known for his collaborations with Daniele Ciprì in their former duo Ciprì & Maresco, in which they directed a large number of documentaries and short film, alongside the critically acclaimed The Return of Cagliostro (2003).

Franco Maresco
Born (1958-05-05) 5 May 1958 (age 68)
Palermo, Italy
Occupations
  • Film director
  • screenwriter
  • film editor
Years active1992–present

His solo credits includes the docu-fictions Belluscone: A Sicilian Story (2014),[1] and The Mafia Is No Longer What It Used to Be (2019) for which he won the Special Jury Prize.[2][3]

Filmography

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Solo credits

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Year English title Original title Notes
2014 Belluscone: A Sicilian Story Belluscone - una storia siciliana Special Jury Prize at the Orizzonti section of the 71st Venice International Film Festival
2015 I Don’t Know the Men of this City Gli uomini di questa città io non li conosco
2019 The Mafia Is No Longer What It Used to Be La mafia non è più quella di una volta Special Jury Prize at the 76th Venice International Film Festival
2023 Lovano Supreme
2025 Bravo Bene! Un Film Fatto per Bene

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References

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  1. Boyd van Hoeij (9 September 2014). "'Belluscone: A Sicilian Story' ('Belluscone: Una Storia Siciliana'): Venice Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  2. Anderson, Ariston (7 September 2019). "Venice: Todd Phillips' 'Joker' Wins Golden Lion, Roman Polanski Wins Silver Lion". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
  3. ""La mafia non è più quella di una volta", il nuovo grottesco sguardo di Franco Maresco sulla Sicilia di oggi" [“The Mafia Is No Longer What It Used to Be”, Franco Maresco's grotesque new look at contemporary Sicily]. Il Fatto Quotidiano (in Italian). 23 May 2019. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
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