One day after school, 12-year-old Luna (Julia Jedlikowska) follows her classmate crush Giuseppe (Gaetano Fernandez) into a possibly enchanted forest, from which he seems to vanish. Based on true events, the film renders Luna’s quest for the truth as a transfixing blend of realism and mythology. A Strand Releasing release.

One of Ferreri’s earliest and most beloved films, this typically irreverent, freewheeling satire tells the story of an ex-nun (Annie Girardot) put on the freak show circuit by her sleazy entrepreneur husband (Ugo Tognazzi) for her distinctively furry appearance.

Four men work in isolation at remote scientific and industrial sites around the world in Giorgio Ferrero’s ravishingly beautiful debut documentary feature, a transfixing work about the origins of consumer society imbued with a musical sense of rhythm.

The D’Innocenzo brothers reinvigorate the gangster genre with their gritty, surprising debut feature about two best friends who find themselves working as lackeys for a local crime syndicate.

Documentarians Luzi and Bellino’s fiction debut stars Rosario and Sharon Caroccia (playing versions of themselves) in a tale of helicopter-parenting that consciously recalls Luchino Visconti’s Bellissima.

An inventive, kaleidoscopic work of cinematic biography, Diva! tells the story of the Oscar-nominated Italian actress Valentina Cortese, played by eight different actresses embodying her at various points of her remarkable career.

A priest (Mimmo Borelli) transfers to the north of Naples and finds himself in conflict with the Camorra in this scrappy, moving drama about the antagonism between religious belief and the modern world.

In this emotionally raw melodrama, a young hairdresser (Jasmine Trinca, in a powerhouse performance) awaits a divorce, deals with her troubled daughter, and chases love despite constant interference from her friends and family.

While taking a cigarette break on a rooftop in Rome, a young baker (Giacomo Ferrara) notices a curious bird plummeting from the sky—and so begins an unpredictable and imaginative twist on the road movie that evokes Alice in Wonderland.

This complex, multilayered portrait of the Italian filmmaker features interviews with the likes of Isabelle Huppert, Roberto Benigni, and Hanna Schygulla to give the underappreciated iconoclast his due.

A medical examiner’s new lover abruptly disappears in this moody, baroque thriller from Turkish director Ozpetek, which recasts Naples as a shadowy, mysterious labyrinth of desire and memory.

The Taviani brothers’ crowning achievement and winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize, The Night of the Shooting Stars remains one of world cinema’s great war films.

A woman courageously tries to break the silence in a culture of complicity surrounding sexual harassment in this all-too-timely film from Open Roads veteran Marco Tullio Giordana.

An enigmatic, nameless man sits in the corner of a bar, receiving visitor after visitor. They tell him of their profoundest wishes and desires, and he assures them they can have exactly what they want . . . but there will be a price. This gripping, minimalist moral thriller boasts an all-star cast.

An impeccably acted drama about youthful self-discovery, De Paolis’s feature debut—concerning a teenage girl’s burgeoning relationship with a young parking lot attendant— is a fresh take on the “opposites attract” tale, set on the outskirts of Rome.

Paolo Taviani’s latest film is a sensitive, atmospheric WWII-set tale about two friends and romantic rivals who find themselves swept up in the anti-fascist movement.

Comencini adapts her own novel in this intelligent, intensely felt romantic comedy about two academics whose seven-year romance has reached an impasse, and neither of them understands why.