We are happy to share the news that the documentary Toxicily Of François Xavier Destors and Alfonso Pinto, produced by Elda Production e Ginko Film which will have its premiere at the 64th edition of the Festival of Peoples in the Italian Competition.
The documentary shows the difficulties of an area where you still hear people saying «Better to die of cancer than of hunger.”. This is the tragic motto that hovers north of Syracuse, among the smokestacks of that petrochemical complex that over seventy years has devastated one of Sicily's most beautiful coastlines, creating a true health and environmental emergency. Built around the inhabitants who resist and those who, instead, accept the compromise with silence or resignation, Toxicily ventures into the depths of a sacrificed zone on the altar of progress, modernity and globalization.
