Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2025
By Caroline Ely May 30, 2025
Director Ferzan Özpetek and actor Toni Servillo are back in the annual showcase.
Director Ferzan Özpetek and actor Toni Servillo are back in the annual showcase.
Among the festival’s rich selection, three must-see highlights stand out, all still seeking distribution in the United States.
The festival takes viewers to glitzy, gaudy Monaco; the former Yugoslavia; and a rapidly changing Bulgarian village.
The annual series includes a vital historical document, a playful twist of the true-crime genre, and an engaging film that might make you feel hopeful for the future.
It wouldn’t be a French film festival without Isabelle Huppert, and she arrives this year in Patricia Mazuy’s Visiting Hours.
Four recommendations for this must-see annual festival.
Emmanuel Mouret’s, sharply written, breezy, and engaging chamber piece opened the annual festival.
Another cracking movie that delivers on the thrills, twists, and cheeky British humor one would expect from an Aardman Animations production.
The tragic events of the 1972 Munich Olympic games, told from the perspective of ABC Sports’ control room.