Saturday 10 October, 7 pm, Cinema Massimo, Screen 3, Via Giuseppe Verdi, 18

In collaboration with Museo Nazionale del Cinema and Fondazione Teatro Piemonte Europa.

On Saturday 10 October at 7 pm at Cinema Massimo, Room 3, Job Film Days, in collaboration with Museo Nazionale del Cinema and Fondazione Teatro Piemonte Europa, presents Prima che la notte, starring Fabrizio Gifuni. Made for television and directed by Daniele Vicari, the film features Gifuni as the Sicilian journalist Giuseppe Fava, murdered by Cosa Nostra in 1984. A unique opportunity to see one of the Rome-born actor’s most powerful performances on the big screen.

The film is introduced by Fabrizio Gifuni.

Admission: tickets required.

Prima che la notte (Italy, 2018, 120′)

International title: Prima che la notte
Original title: Prima che la notte
Director: Daniele Vicari
Screenplay: Daniele Vicari, Claudio Fava, Michele Gambino, Monica Zapelli
Photography: Luciano Federici, Gherardo Gossi
Edit: Benni Atria
Music: Theo Teardo
Cast: Fabrizio Gifuni, Dario Aita, Selene Caramazza, Aurora Quattrocchi, Lorenza Indovina
Production: Italian International Film

In 1980, Giuseppe Fava decided to return to Catania to found the newspaper Giornale del Mezzogiorno, after reaching major achievements in the field cinema, television, radio and theater. Around this endeavor, he created a distinct school of journalism based on absolute freedom of speech, free from self-censorship, particularly when confronting the mafia. This foundation soon brought him into open conflict with local business interests and the Mafia syndicates linked to them. On January 5th, 1984, Fava was assassinated by Cosa Nostra. 

Prima che la notte (presented by Job Film Days as part of a special event dedicated to Fabrizio Gifuni, including a masterclass led by the Roman actor) is a movie made for television (it was screened the first time by Rai 1, on May 23rd, 2018) 

Daniele Vicari. Director, screenwriter, author, graduated with a degree in the Humanities from La Sapienza University of Rome. In the nineties, he focused on cinema criticism writing “Cinema Nuovo” and “Cinema 60” and on the production of short movies and documentaries. In 2002, he debuted with his fictional long feature film Velocità massima, for which he won the 2003 David di Donatello for best new director. In 2011, he founded the Cinema art school “Gian Maria Volonté”, a tuition-free public academy dedicated to training in cinema professions. 

Partial filmography: Non mi basta mai (doc., 1999, co-director Guido Chiesa), Velocità massima (2002), L’orizzonte degli eventi (2005), Il mio paese (doc., 2006), Il passato è una terra straniera (2008), Diaz – Don’t Clean Up This Blood (2012), La nave dolce (doc., 2012), Sole cuore amore (2016), Prima che la notte (2018, movie for television), Il giorno e la notte (2021), Orlando (2022), Fela, il mio Dio vivente (doc., 2023), Ammazzare stanca (2025).