Salvatore Mereu’s latest chronicle of life in Sardinia fragmentarily retraces the winding chain of events that lead to a tragic fire at an agriturismo.

The second feature by the D’Innocenzo brothers is an absorbing, richly traced group portrait of youth on the precipice of puberty, set in the suburbs of Rome.

Pietro Marcello returns to documentary with his latest, a reverent and intoxicating portrait of the late Bolognese singer Lucio Dalla, chronicling his rise to prominence in the 1960s and ’70s as well as Italy’s broader social transformations.

Elio Germano turns in a tour-de-force performance as Naïve painter Antonio Ligabue in Giorgio Diritti’s melancholic and forceful biopic.

The provocative and complex latest from Franco Maresco is an investigation on the streets of Palermo into the legacies of two anti-Mafia judges assassinated in the early 1990s.

Loosely based on a real-life assassination attempt against his father, Claudio Noce’s latest is a coming-of-age tale cast against the backdrop of Italy’s politically tumultuous Years of Lead.

Pietro Castellitto’s black comedy takes aim at class antagonism in contemporary Italy, buoyed by an inspired ensemble cast and ravishingly lensed by Carlo Rinaldi.

The De Serio brothers draw from their documentary background in their fictional latest, a low-key humanist drama about a laborer endeavoring to raise his wife from the dead to keep a promise to his son.

Francesca Mazzoleni’s lyrical documentary traces a multifaceted portrait of Ostia, a small port village south of Rome, threatened by encroaching real estate development.

Documentarian Elisa Amoruso’s semi-autobiographical fiction debut chronicles a young girl’s stormy adolescence as she enters into a friendship with another student that will change her life.

Daniele Luchetti’s latest, opening with Alba Rohrwacher and Luigi Lo Cascio as a married couple in Naples in the 1980s, spans time and space, presenting fragments of a family’s history to arrive at a seductively complex group portrait.