Clare Azzopardi’s novel Castillo was the seminal work that inspired Take//Two’s latest feature film of the same name. The film premiered in Maltese cinemas in September 2025 to critical and popular acclaim and was selected as Malta’s submission to the 2025 Academy Awards.
 

Synopsis: After her father’s stroke, Amanda seeks out her long-estranged mother, who had abandoned the family twenty years earlier following the assassination of her sister, the celebrated writer K. Penza, in 1986. As Amanda reconnects with the past, she is drawn into the shadows of a family history scarred by loss, silence, and unresolved trauma.