Gomorrah

A powerful depiction of the destructive and pervasive impact of organised crime on ordinary people, GOMORRAH focuses on five inter-linked stories in the working-class suburbs of Naples. Winner of the Cannes Grand Prix this summer for its ground- breaking adaptation of Robert Saviano’s best-selling book – a literary phenomenon in Italy last year – the film journeys into a nightmarish landscape of crumbling concrete housing blocks and polluted wastelands to show us everyday lives corrupted by crime: the young boy who betrays a family; the Scarface obsessed adolescents firing machine guns across a lake; the tailor trapped by the mob; and the kids employed to dump toxic waste. A remarkable indictment of the consequences of the mafia’s power and wealth.