Angelica Artemisia Pedatella

Peppino (Maurizio Mattioli), a Roman funeral director who has always been supported by the bumbling Spartaco (Enzo Salvi), is a man who juggles disastrous funerals, turbulent affairs and... two families. One with his wife Lidia (Anita Kravos) and the other with his Spanish lover Helena (Isabelle Adriani). An already complicated life, which becomes a real race against time when Peppino discovers that he only has a few weeks to live. At this point, our protagonist implements a move that will upset everyone's lives. Definitely.

“Onora la Madre” focuses on the role that women played in the 'Ndrangheta, because their presence in Mafia contexts has always been underestimated whereas today has slowly surfaced again. The short explores the manifold and contradictory 'Ndrangheta female universe in Calabria. It explains - starting from reports, documents, traditions, rituals, testimonies, words and judicial documents, the 'Ndrangheta telling the stories and the figures of women that inevitably settle and serve calabrian clans. Everything starts with a quite enlightening syllogism: family is the core element of the 'Ndrangheta, woman is the core element of the family, woman is the core element of the 'Ndrangheta. Analyzing the real universe of the 'Ndrangheta’s mechanisms we realize the real role of women, often extremely important even if destined never to be formally recognized by the organization.