C-Side Award @ 21st Visions du Réel 2014
Best Italian Documentary @ 55th Festival dei Popoli Florence 2014
Italia Doc Award @ 33rd Bellaria Film Festival 2014
Audience Award and Stadion Video Award @ Doc/It Award 2014
56th Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival 2014
59th Seminci Valladolid 2014
SmoKings
dir. Michele Fornasero – 90 min. – documentary
Italy/Switzerland, 2014
SOUNDTRACK
℗ 2014 Great Temptation
CREDITS
Director: Michele Fornasero
Production: Indyca, Ventura Film, Majade Filmproduktion
Producer: Simone Catania
With: Carlo Messina, Gianpaolo Messina
SYNOPSIS
After selling cigarettes from the “grey” market online – and becoming considerably wealthy – the Messina brothers are being pursued by multinationals from the tobacco industry. Far from being intimidated by their threats, they are building a factory in Italy to produce their own brand. A gangster film whose reckless characters are not without humour.
