Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2019
Open Roads: New Italian Cinema is the only screening series to offer North American audiences a diverse and extensive lineup of contemporary Italian films. This year’s edition again strikes a balance between emerging talents and esteemed veterans, commercial and independent fare, outrageous comedies, gripping dramas, and captivating documentaries, with in-person appearances by many of the filmmakers.
Co-presented by Film at Lincoln Center and Istituto Luce Cinecittà. Organized by Florence Almozini and Dan Sullivan, Film at Lincoln Center; and by Carla Cattani, Griselda Guerrasio, and Monique Catalino, Istituto Luce Cinecittà.
Following Open Roads: New Italian Cinema, join us for our Ermanno Olmi retrospective from June 14-26.
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Piranhas
Capri-Revolution
Q&A with Mario Martone and screenwriter Ippolita Di Majo
Mario Martone’s stirring period drama centers on a young goatherd living on the island of Capri in 1914, alongside a commune of free-spirited Northern European artists and intellectuals who have retreated to the lush Mediterranean idyll to put their fledgling ideologies into practice.La Commare Secca
Dafne
North American Premiere · Q&A with Federico Bondi
A young woman with Down syndrome copes with the death of her mother in Federico Bondi’s FIPRESCI-winning sophomore feature, anchored by a breakout performance from Carolina Raspanti.The Disappearance of My Mother
Q&A with Beniamino Barrese
Cinematographer Beniamino Barrese’s directorial debut is an intimate, vignette-like documentary portrait of his mother, the Italian model and activist Benedetta Barzini. Taking this formidable woman as its protagonist, the film opens up into an exploration of beauty, womanhood, aging, and image-making.Euforia
Q&A with Valerio Mastandrea on June 8
When Ettore (Valerio Mastandrea), a public-school teacher of modest means, is diagnosed with an illness, he goes to stay with his brother Matteo (Riccardo Scamarcio) in his sprawling Roman bachelor pad, where the two men must reckon with long-unresolved family tensions and resentments, in actor-director Valeria Golino’s quietly wrenching drama.If Life Gives You Lemons
Q&A with Ciro D’Emilio
A teenage boy’s dreams of soccer stardom are threatened by a chaotic home life in this achingly naturalistic portrait of a young man striving to succeed in the face of overwhelming odds.Laughing
North American Premiere · Q&A with Valerio Mastandrea and Chiara Martegiani
After a young man dies in a controversial workplace accident, those who loved him grapple with what it means to go on living in this powerful, poetic exploration of the myriad ways we grieve, cope, and find hope in the face of loss.Loro
Lucia’s Grace
Magical Nights
North American Premiere
Three young screenwriters being questioned for a murder recount their wild adventures navigating the declining Italian film industry of the 1990s in this sparkling murder mystery and film industry satire.Normal
North American Premiere
A standout from the Berlin Film Festival, Adele Tulli’s atmospheric documentary looks at the ways that conventional gender expression is instilled and reinforced.Ricordi?
North American Premiere · Q&A with Valerio Mieli
The past resurfaces in sensory bursts in Valerio Mieli’s evocative romance, in which a couple struggles to recapture the urgency that brought them together.Selfie
North American Premiere · Q&A with Agostino Ferrente on June 9
Several years after an unarmed teenager was shot by police in the Traiano region of Naples, Agostino Ferrente recruited a pair of 16-year-old boys in the gang-ravaged neighborhood to capture their daily lives using smartphone cameras in “selfie” mode. The result is a moving chronicle of adolescence shaped by economic precarity and the improbable persistence of hope.Sono Gassman! Vittorio re della commedia
North American Premiere · Q&A with Fabrizio Corallo
This brisk, engaging documentary surveys the life, work, and legacy of Vittorio Gassman, the Italian screen icon who went from serious dramatic stage actor to one of the greatest practitioners of commedia all’italiana.Twin Flower
Q&A with Laura Luchetti
In writer-director Laura Luchetti’s strikingly photographed second feature, two teenagers on the run from personal demons form a relationship as they embark on a dangerous trip across the tough and breathtaking terrain of Sardinia.The Vice of Hope
Q&A with Edoardo de Angelis
A woman desperately fights to escape the criminal underworld she was born into in this breathless tale of resilience and unexpected grace.Tickets on sale now! To begin the purchase process, log in to your account. Don’t have an account? Sign up for one today. To see member and patron pricing, you must be logged into your account.
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