Acclaimed documentarist Vincenzo Marra's work This Session Is Open constitutes an exercise in cinema direct filmmaking at its purest. Sans narration or any discernible viewpoint, the picture remains stringently objective in its inside portrayal of an Italian courtroom, during the assassination trial of a mafia unit called the 'Neapolitan Camorra.'
Released
Italy
August 31, 2006
(Venice Film Festival)
Canada
September 12, 2006
(Toronto International Film Festival)
France
September 30, 2006
(Annecy Italian Film Festival)
Sweden
January 27, 2007
(Göteborg International Film Festival)
