Ten shorts by the Sicilian documentary filmmaker Vittorio De Seta will be made available on the Criterion Channel, January 28. In recognition of 30 years since Martin Scorsese founded the Film Foundation, an organization dedicated to preserving cinema, Criterion Channel is releasing a number of films that have been saved and restored thanks to this initiative. The series will last all year.

I’ve seen several these and I can tell you that they are not for the faint of heart. De Seta’s work was anthropological in nature and doesn’t hold back from showing the authentic struggles of the people of rural Sicily, Sardinia and Calabria, where he shot, to get over the hardships of the 1950s depressed southern and Sardinian economic woes. His films are stunning and will stay with you.