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Palermo’s Moment

Palermo is one of those naturally photogenic cities of the world. Like certain people who have some aesthetic imperfections but shine brightly on film, Palermo's imperfections underscore its iconographic strength. Colors, contradictions, jarring, and social choreography encapsulate “palermitudine”, a mixture of identities, values, and meanings that often remain outside the image but contribute weight and poignancy to each shutter shot of Palermo life, often even counter - intuitively.
“PALERMO’S MOMENT” recounts a multifaceted, multicultural city, fairly unscathed by racist marginalization that renews the memory of a Mediterranean capital, the result of crossbreeding and contamination, a landing place between the north and south of the world as evidenced by faces, customs, and coexistences, not always easy but nevertheless consolidated over time.
The city becomes the confused, noisy, and colorful container of a composite humanity of juxtaposed and sometimes jarring realities, but nonetheless marked by a fiery and never desperate vitality. Difficult, dramatic, but not resigned. A city aching, but alive. Such is Palermo.

  • Giacomo Palermo
    Director
  • Francesco Buzzurro
    Soundtrack
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Documentary, Experimental, Feature, Music Video, Short, Television, Web / New Media
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 2 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    December 25, 2025
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Giacomo Palermo

Giacomo Palermo graduated in “Science and Technologies of Communication” from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and is a photojournalist, visual communicator and unconventional blogger working on sociological, humanitarian and environmental ethical research in the Mediterranean Area and mainly in Sicily. Contributor for Italian and international multimedia media publishers such as l'Osservatore Romano, imageBROKER, Getty Images Inc., Touring Club Italia, Majority World CIC - Global - Photo Agency, The MEGA Agency - LLC, GEDI S.p.a. Editorial Group, La Repubblica, National Geographic Italia, La Sicilia, La Discussione, Aleteia.org, America Oggi, La Voce di New York, Splash News, CrossInMedia Foundation, Agenzia Fotogramma, IPA Photo Agency and others. He has received diplomatic awards such as the “Piersanti Mattarella Award” the Ecu Film Fest's “White Palm” for “Ecumenical Cinema for Interreligious Dialogue”, the 33rd Official International Photographic Competition of the Republic of San Marino “TOURISM IN THE WORLD” sponsored by FIAP: Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique and that of the “Italian Federation of Photographic Associations” dedicated to “Tina Modotti”. He was selected by Magnum Photos in “The Magnum Connect Program”. With a scholarship from the Italy - USA Foundation (partner the United Nations), he obtained a diplomatic master's degree in “Leadership for International Relations and Made in Italy”. He exhibited in the “International Center of Photography” in Palermo founded by Letizia Battaglia.

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