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Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2025

Director Ferzan Özpetek and actor Toni Servillo are back in the annual showcase.

Vermiglio

An outwardly quiet movie that is deceptively eventful.

Diciannove | TIFF 2024

The debut film by Giovanni Tortorici, a spry filmmaker, has moxie.

Anywhere Anytime | TIFF 2024

Director Milad Tangshir’s feature debut expands upon a certain Italian neorealism classic, Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves.

Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara

Accompanied by an often swelling orchestral score, director Marco Bellocchio is unafraid to go for broke telling this true story set in the mid-19th century.

La Chimera

Alice Rohrwacher’s latest film casts a beguiling spell, but like all altered states, it can also leave you disoriented.

Io Capitano

Director Matteo Garrone is scrupulous in his attention to the harrowing logistics of a Senegalese immigrant’s journey to Italy.

L’immensità

Emmanuele Crialese’s loosely autobiographical story of a transgender tween and his family’s internal struggles in 1970s Rome.

A Chiara

Calabrian life, as depicted here, moves in step with corruption that can be either purposefully pursued or casually accepted, but is always expected.