Edoardo de Angelis returns to Open Roads with his latest, a gripping maritime thriller set in the early years of World War II, driven by a powerhouse performance from Pierfrancesco Favino as an Italian Royal Navy commander who finds himself at a moral crossroads.

A young man finds himself lost in a labyrinth of criminality as Rome burns in Stefano Sollima’s eminently modern noir, featuring magnetic performances from some of Italy’s greatest leading men (Pierfrancesco Favino, Valerio Mastandrea, Toni Servillo and Adriano Giannini).

A melancholic, philosophical take on science fiction, Piero Messina’s ensemble drama contemplates a futuristic twist on the afterlife and its implications for those whom the deceased have left behind. Starring Gael García Bernal, Renate Reinsve, and Bérénice Bejo.

Loosely adapted from a novel by Cesare Pavese, Laura Luchetti’s sensitively staged and exquisitely shot portrait of female coming-of-age in 1930s Turin captures the ecstasies and agonies of young love on the cusp of adulthood.

The latest from Nanni Moretti is a comic sendup of the creative life and a love letter to cinema itself, in which Moretti plays a film director who resents his producer wife for going to work on another director’s project.

Alain Parroni’s kinetic debut feature, something like a spiritual descendant of Kids and The Doom Generation, follows three teenagers on the cusp of adulthood and on the brink of nihilism in and around Rome.

Hereditary privilege gets skewered in Pietro Castellitto’s sophomore feature, about the good-for-nothing son of a television personality and a therapist whose casual forays into drug-dealing intensify beyond his expectations.

An apocalyptic January heat wave in Rome induces a state of collective delirium in this ensemble piece that follows a constellation of Romans on the brink of a nervous breakdown. The star-studded cast includes Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Valeria Golino, Alba Rohrwacher, Riccardo Scamarcio, Danny Huston, and more.

The latest from Giorgio Diritti stars Franz Rogowski as Lubo Moser, an itinerant artist of Yenish descent who seeks to avenge the loss of his family due to a scandalous national reeducation program in WWII-era Switzerland.

Roberta Torre’s ninth feature isn’t so much a Monica Vitti biopic as a lovingly crafted homage worthy of the late muse of Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Alba Rohrwacher and featuring new original music by composer (and frequent Wong Kar-wai collaborator) Shigeru Umebayashi.

Tommaso Santambrogio’s disarmingly beautiful and moving debut feature is a stunningly photographed black-and-white portrait of contemporary Cuba, capturing three disparate tales of exile with an outsider’s gaze.

A vividly traced film about a mother-son relationship with a neo-noir twist, Enrico Maria Artale’s fourth feature follows a mother-son criminal pair as their deep bond is complicated by the arrival of a young drug mule.

A box office sensation upon its theatrical release in Italy, comedian Paola Cortellesi’s 1940s-set black-and-white directorial debut follows a working-class woman who is a victim of domestic physical and psychological abuse as she gains the courage to change her life.