From war movies on Stromboli to heart-wrenching fishing dramas or experimental films set at the crossroads of one street in Palermo, this journey around Sicily through classic Italian cinema recounts the island’s love affair with the big screen and vice versa.

Shaped like a boot below mainland Italy, Sicily’s PR has sometimes being wrong-footed by popular culture. The island is famous for its wine and Greek pantheons but also, among a plethora of other things, for its ruthless international gangsters – both on and off the screen.