Edoardo De Angelis’s beautiful and beguiling Neapolitan fable centers around Dasy and Violet, beautiful, musically talented twins conjoined at the hip. After learning that they can be separated, Dasy falls in love and pursues a new life.

Something like Forrest Gump by way of Mel Brooks, the latest by Pierfrancesco Diliberto (a.k.a. Pif, renowned TV host and political comedian) is a tender yet irreverent comedy set against the backdrop of World War II.

Andrea De Sica’s feature debut is a twisted, genre-bending tale of abandonment and transgression set in an Alpine boarding school for boys.

Boasting an international cast including Toni Servillo, Daniel Auteuil, and Connie Nielsen, this Hitchcockian mystery-thriller is a classically composed and wildly entertaining whodunit unfolding around a G8 summit.

Winner of the Orrizonti Prize at last year’s Venice Film Festival, Federica Di Giacomo’s unsentimental documentary follows Father Cataldo, a Sicilian priest and exorcist sought out by Catholics who believe themselves to be possessed.

Unfolding in a single day, Alessandro Aronadio’s absurd tragicomedy upsets a hapless man’s routine with a series of hilarious, Kafkaesque scenarios involving meddlesome nuns, bumbling doctors, and robotic fast food cashiers.

Stylishly blending social realism with the coming-of-age story, Claudio Giovannesi’s third feature focuses on a blossoming romance in a juvenile detention center.

Irene Dionisio’s debut feature is a gripping moral drama that interlaces three storylines around a pawn shop in Turin.

Exquisitely blending tragedy with quiet joy, Daniele Vicari’s vividly realistic ode to urban living follows lifelong friends Eli and Vale, working women caught up in life’s unrelenting demands.

The latest from Marco Bellocchio is this delicate, melancholic, and deeply moving adaptation of Massimo Gramellini’s popular autobiographical novel about a middle-aged man’s struggle to come to grips with the loss of his mother when he was a child.

Loosely based on Lorenzo Moreno’s Premio Strega Prize–winning novel The Temptation to Be Happy, the latest by Gianni Amelio explores loneliness, heartbreak, and complicated family relations in modern-day Naples.

A grieving woman unexpectedly comes face to face with Naples’ violent Camorra in a complex exploration of grief and redemption that could be considered the third installment of Marco Tullio Giordana’s organized crime cycle.

In Marco Danieli’s assured and sensitive debut feature, Sara Serraiocco (Salvo) stars as Giulia, a smart young Jehovah’s Witness whose lifestyle is put to the test when she meets Libero (Michele Riondino), an ex-con and son of a recent convert.

With an ensemble cast made up almost entirely of children, Davide Barletti and Lorenzo Conte’s fable about a war between the ruling elite and lower classes plays like a cross between Lord of the Flies and The Goonies.