The Mafia Kills Only in Summer

A coming-of-age story set in Palermo through the 1970s and 80s — the years of the Mafia's most visible violence — told by a man looking back on a childhood lived in its shadow. Manages to be both funny and heartbreaking, treating a subject usually handled with solemnity as something that was simply there, part of the weather. Won the David di Donatello for Best Film.