This led the media to class Venditti with other high-profile show-business converts like Claudia Koll (who was also attacked by a malevolent entity) and Giovanni Lindo Ferretti, although actually his conversion long predates theirs. In October 2009 Venditti was criticized for asking, during a concert in Sicily, "Why did God create Calabria?" and declaring that "there is really nothing" in Calabria, a region in South Italy. In the past it was colonized by the ancient Greeks and became the cradle of Magna Graecia, but now it is also the base of the modern crime organization 'ndrangheta. Venditti later made peace with Calabria over a cup of good coffee at his house in Rome with the mayor of Reggio Calabria, Giuseppe Scopelliti. In November 2011, Venditti released his new album, named "Unica". The following tour started in march of 2012 in Rome and ended in September 2013 in Turin. The special track "Io l'orchestra le donne e l'amore" was performed at the Arena of Verona. In January 2014, Venditti started his small sold-out tour 'Ritorno al Futuro', which consists of the songs from the 1970s and 1980s, such as "Lo stambecco ferito", "Marta", "Compagno di scuola", "Campo de' Fiori" and others. Venditti's latest album is "Tortuga", released in 2015. Venditti released the soundtrack for the 1985 movie "Troppo Forte" by his friend, the Roman director Carlo Verdone. Verdone also occasionally played drums in Venditti's concerts. Furthermore, he appears in the Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film, "The Great Beauty", whose soundtrack includes a song of his.