Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2026
By Caroline Ely May 28, 2026
Four women directors deliver singular films—these works are eye-openers, and each brings a strong point of view.
Four women directors deliver singular films—these works are eye-openers, and each brings a strong point of view.
Ildikó Enyedi places a ginkgo tree at the center of her new film, as a silent witness to the passing of time.
A woozy road movie, a wistful sketch of an Italy fallen from grace, and a wry comedy.
The occasionally stirring biopic of Tourette syndrome activist John Davidson.
Actor Jasper Billerbeck plays one of the most memorably multidimensional young wartime protagonists since The Tin Drum and Empire of the Sun.
A compelling psychological horror story that doesn’t require preexisting gaming knowledge.
There’s a verbose richness to Ed Solomon’s text and Steven Soderbergh’s cool visual flair that works wonderfully together here.
Living the Land makes its points about the loss of a certain way of life in the face of inevitable modernism gently and memorably.