Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2023
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Film at Lincoln Center and Cinecittà present the 22nd edition of Open Roads: New Italian Cinema, running from June 1 to 8.
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; and outrageous comedies, gripping dramas, and captivating documentaries.
The opening-night screening is Francesca Archibugi’s latest feature The Hummingbird, adapted from Sandro Veronesi’s Strega Prize-winning novel, an at once epic and intimate chronicle of love and familial ups and downs that spans six decades and three generations, featuring Pierfrancesco Favino, Berenice Bejo, Laura Morante, Nanni Moretti, and others.
Additional offerings for this year’s edition include but are not limited to: Gianni Amelio’s masterfully executed Lord of the Ants, a deeply stirring biopic of the poet/playwright Aldo Braibanti; Roberto Andò’s 12th feature Strangeness, which stars Toni Servillo as Nobel Prize-winning playwright Luigi Pirandello, who, on a trip to his native Sicily in 1920, encounters a pair of gravediggers/aspiring actors and unexpectedly arrives at the idea for what will ultimately become his signature work; actress Monica Dugo’s directorial feature Like Turtles, a tragicomic chronicle of a family’s dissolution about a woman who, her husband having abruptly left her and their children behind, climbs into her wardrobe and refuses to come out; Michele Vannucci’s second feature Delta, set on the Po Delta in northern Italy, where tensions are rising among the small community that calls it home, especially between a lifelong native fisherman (Alessandro Borghi) and a wildlife warden (Luigi Lo Cascio); Paolo Virzi’s Dry, a wryly satirical ensemble drama (with a top-notch cast including Silvio Orlando, Valerio Mastandrea, Monica Bellucci, and others) about the vanity of humans in the face of global catastrophe during an imagined three-year drought; and Giuseppe Fiorello’s debut feature Fireworks, based on a true story set in Sicily in 1982, which turns a budding romance between two teenage boys into a moving examination of the painful moments that produce political change.
This year’s presentation includes a focus on Mario Martone, one of the key Italian filmmakers of the past 40 years, who has completed 17 features since his 1992 theatrical feature debut Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician. Film at Lincoln Center and Cinecittà pay homage to Martone (a perennial presence in the Open Roads lineup) by showcasing his most recent fiction film, Nostalgia, alongside two essential works from earlier in his career: 1995’s Troubling Love (co-written with Elena Ferrante) and 2014’s Leopardi.
Open Roads is co-presented by Film at Lincoln Center and Cinecittà in collaboration with Italian Cultural institute – NYC and the support of Casa Italian Zeerilli Marimò – NYU.
In celebration of this year’s edition of Open Roads, the streaming service Film Movement Plus is putting a spotlight on their Italian cinema collection, including films recently seen at Open Roads, and offering an exclusive 50% OFF discount on your Film Movement Plus annual subscription, visit here.
Monday, June 5
Walter Reade Theater
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Tuesday, June 6
Wednesday, June 7
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Thursday, June 8
Walter Reade Theater
Walter Reade Theater
The Hummingbird
Opening Night Film | Q&A with Francesca Archibugi on June 1
Adapted from Sandro Veronesi’s Strega Prize-winning novel, Francesca Archibugi’s latest feature is an at once epic and intimate chronicle of love and familial ups and downs that spans six decades and three generations. Featuring Pierfrancesco Favino, Bérénice Bejo, Laura Morante, Nanni Moretti, and others.Chiara
Q&A with Margherita Mazzucco on June 2
The life of Saint Clare of Assisi—a follower of Saint Francis, himself memorably depicted in films by Rossellini, Pasolini, Liliana Cavani and Michael Curtiz—is inventively rendered in this historical kind-of musical by Susanna Nicchiarelli.Delta
Q&A with Michele Vannucci on June 4
Something like a backwater noir cum western, Michele Vannucci’s second feature is set on the Po Delta in northern Italy, where tensions are rising among the small community that calls it home, especially between a lifelong native fisherman (Alessandro Borghi) and a wildlife warden (Luigi Lo Cascio).Dry
Q&A with Tommaso Ragno on June 2
A historic three-year drought serves as the point of departure for the latest by Paolo Virzì, a wryly satirical ensemble drama (with a top-notch cast including Silvio Orlando, Valerio Mastandrea, Monica Bellucci, Tomasso Ragno, and others) about the vanity of humans in the face of global catastrophe.Fireworks
Q&A with Giuseppe Fiorello, Gabriele Pizzurro, and Samuele Segreto on June 1
Based on a true story and set in Sicily in 1982, Giuseppe Fiorello’s debut feature chronicling a budding romance between two teenage boys is a moving examination of the painful moments that produce political change.Like Turtles
Q&A with Monica Dugo
Actress Monica Dugo makes her directorial feature debut in this tragicomic chronicle of a family’s dissolution about a woman who, her husband having abruptly left her and their children behind, climbs into her wardrobe and refuses to come out.Lord of the Ants
Margins
Q&A with Niccolò Falsetti
A punk band finds itself in a sticky situation when they invite a prominent American hardcore band to perform in Grosseto in Niccolò Falsetti’s charming and funny debut feature.My Summer with the Shark
Q&A with Davide Gentile
Davide Gentile’s debut feature, about a 13-year-old boy mourning his father who becomes transfixed by an abandoned villa on the Roman coast, is a surprising and original coming-of-age story in which the mysteries of youth and the oneiric power of cinema intermingle.Princess
Strangeness
Focus on Mario Martone
At this year’s Open Roads, we pay homage to director Mario Martone (a perennial presence in the festival’s lineup) by showcasing his most recent fiction film, Nostalgia, alongside two essential works from earlier in his career: 1995’s Troubling Love (co-written with Elena Ferrante) and 2014’s Leopardi.
Nostalgia
Q&A with Tommaso Ragno
The latest fiction feature from Mario Martone is a richly traced, Naples-set drama about a man’s (Pierfrancesco Favino) return to the city in which he grew up and the skeletons in the closet that he rediscovers upon arrival.Troubling Love
Tickets are now on sale and are $17; $14 for students, seniors (62+), and persons with disabilities; and $12 for Film at Lincoln Center members.
Save with the purchase of three tickets or more with the 3+ Film Package. Discount automatically applied when adding at least three tickets to your cart.
We’re excited to introduce a dinner and a movie combo with our Italian programming this June, kicking off with Open Roads. For $30, receive one ticket to an Open Roads screening and a select menu item at Café Paradiso, located in FLC’s Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center. Learn more here.
See more and save with All-Access Passes! Available for $89 for General Public (sold out!) and $45 for Students.
Passes will be available to pick up at the box office starting the first day of the series. Your pass will grant access to one (1) for every film in the series, with exceptions listed on our website where applicable. We recommend arriving at least 15 minutes prior to a screening as late seating cannot be guaranteed. Passes do not give access to any free events or talks.
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