In this deeply personal film about her relationship with her legendary filmmaker father, Francesca Comencini’s virtuosic work of cinematic autobiography paints a richly emotional picture of their changing bond during the Years of Lead. Nominated for six Donatello Awards.

Nature seeks her revenge in Isabella Torre’s hypnotic debut feature, an enigmatic and powerfully atmospheric work about an illegal archaeological dig in southern Calabria and its supernatural consequences.

Open Roads veteran Gianni Amelio (Lord of the Ants, Open Roads 2023) returns with this powerful parable about courage and compassion under extreme pressure, starring Alessandro Borghi as a doctor at a military hospital during WWI.

In their latest documentary, which received a Special Mention from the Documentary Award jury at the 2024 Berlinale, the De Serio brothers pay tribute to the local musical customs of Italy’s disparate regions, movingly capturing these traditions—and the figures who seek to preserve them—at risk of fading away.

The great Ferzan Özpetek returns with his latest, an absorbing, humorous, and touching tribute to the majesty of the movie costume, about a Roman fashion house seeking to fulfill a challenging order from an Oscar-winning costume designer client during the 1970s.

Nominated for eight Donatello Awards, this harrowing, white-knuckle family portrait and meditation on the terrible appeal of political extremism follows a young man who has grown up in the shadow of his violently abusive father and finds himself falling in with a group of ultra-right-wing skinheads.

Winner of the best actor prize at the Rome Film Festival, the great Elio Germano stars as Enrico Berlinguer in Andrea Segre’s moving and intelligently plotted biopic, following the former leader of the Italian Communist Party between 1973 and 1978. Nominated for 15 Donatello Awards.

A character study pitched at the boundary between reality and dreams, Silvia Luzi and Luca Bellino’s new feature is an absorbing work that explores the subjectivity of a lonely leatherworker (Marianna Fontana) stifled by her environment.

A touching story of familial reconnection, Alissa Jung’s debut feature orbits around the alluring and sensitive performances of Luca Marinelli and Juli Grabenhenrich as an estranged father and teenage daughter forging a new bond in coastal northern Italy.

Matteo, a fugitive mob boss in hiding (Elio Germano), begins a curious correspondence with a former acquaintance of his father’s (Toni Servillo), a corrupt politician who is fresh off a prison sentence—and who is also helping the police to track Matteo down.

Filmmaker Alessandro Cassigoli and journalist Casey Kauffman team up for their fourth feature-length collaboration, a powerful portrait of a Neapolitan hairdresser navigating the vagaries of international adoption in search of a young girl who appears in her dreams.

In her debut feature, about an amnesiac ethnomusicologist’s efforts to recover his memories of a forgotten love, Sara Fgaier has crafted an emotionally and formally sophisticated monument to the link between cinema and memory.

Three Filipino siblings who are all domestic workers living in Italy reunite at the villa that the eldest sister has inherited from her boss—but their reunion dredges up old feelings, lingering resentments, and the distance that has formed between them in the intervening years.

A fiction/documentary hybrid that undertakes a charmingly idiosyncratic investigation into the present state of human connection, Peter Kerekes’s Wishing on a Star follows a Neapolitan astrologer and her efforts to help her clients find love by sending them off on trips to exotic, astrally attuned locales.