They are among us, sometimes within us. Insidious, fascinating, revealing. These are the monsters wandering freely today at the Lido, starting with those explored in the highly anticipated Netflix series Il Mostro (Out of Competition – Series), centered on the investigation into the “Monster of Florence” and directed by Stefano Sollima, a skillful storyteller of crime and true crime. “Monstrous” too are the photographs of Ferdinando Scianna – for their cultural weight, evocative power, and ability to unveil the unspeakable and the shadow. Ferdinando Scianna – The Photographer of the Shadow (Out of Competition) is the tribute that the excellent Roberto Andò has dedicated to the great master from Bagheria, a leading author of Magnum Photos and inimitable poet of an ancestral and ritual Sicilian identity. Also in Competition, another monstrosity: the one that perhaps lurks in the personality of the protagonist of Elisa by Leonardo Di Costanzo, who is serving a sentence for killing her sister and burning her body. Starring in the new work by the author of the rightly acclaimed Ariaferma are Barbara Ronchi and Valeria Golino...