Four women directors deliver singular films—these works are eye-openers, and each brings a strong point of view.

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

An outwardly quiet movie that is deceptively eventful.

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

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

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.

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

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

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