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Sicily and its people have held a fascination for filmmakers the world over and more than 800 feature films have been set there or contained Sicilian characters. This montage-driven documentary from Italian-director Giuseppe Tornatore, pays tribute to his birthplace and the people who live there by presenting over 500 snippets from 163 different films. He then took the many clips and divided his documentary into 14 short chapters with humorous and serious subjects ranging from history to gestural communication to Mafia influence to mustaches on both women and men.