From Official Competition at the Giffoni Film Festival, director Laura Muscardin takes us on perilous adventure, set in the future, in a world where wars and devastating natural disasters have destroyed all human infrastructure and plunged the world into a dark savage age.

What remains of civilization is concentrated in small, closed ... more

A touching personal story from director Francesco Bruni, Everything’s Gonna Be Alright follows a man forced to reevaluate his relationships in the face of illness.

The life of Bruno Salvati (the outstanding Kim Rossi Stuart, The Best Years, 2020) is at a standstill. His films have never been successful and his ... more

A heart-warming tale of courage and adventure, Glass Boy tells the story of 11-year-old Pino who is trapped in a small town and fed up with a life that is always the same. Confined to his family’s huge and elaborate villa, owing to a rare form of haemophilia, his life is controlled by his overly protective family.

Pino, ... more

The first collaboration between Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman is a devastating portrait of a woman’s existential crisis, set against the beautiful and forbidding backdrop of a volcanic island. Lithuanian Karin (Bergman) flees her war-ravaged home country and winds up in an internment camp in Italy where she meets Antonio (Mario ... more

An enthralling drama about the considerable cost of excellence in a world where everything, and everyone, has a price tag, Tigers delves into the dark side of professional football in Italy.

Martin (a scalding Erik Enge) is one of the most promising football talents Sweden has ever seen. At sixteen, his lifelong dream comes ... more

A man with a knack for accidentally setting off catastrophes decides to help his friends but causes more trouble in this bittersweet comedy starring the hilarious Claudio Bisio.

Diego (Bisio), a successful lawyer, is chronically depressed. One day he meets Massimiliano (Sergio Rubini), owner of an eccentric shop in Chiacchiere that ... more

Italian screen goddess Sophia Loren, one of the most beloved and recognisable figures in the international film world, has made over 100 films in her 50-year career. In Vittorio De Sica’s ode to complicated love, Marriage Italian Style, the formidable Loren plays Filumena, a penniless prostitute, who meets the handsome and ... more

A look at the life, passions, achievements, and tragedies surrounding the famous explorer and environmentalist Jacques Cousteau, featuring an archive of his newly restored footage. Adventurer, filmmaker, inventor, author, unlikely celebrity and conservationist: For over four decades, Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his explorations under the ocean ... more

Festival favourite Stefano Accorsi (The Goddess of Fortune IFF20, The Champion IFF19) stars as a man torn between the past and future in psychological thriller You Came Back, which closed the Venice International Film Festival last year.

Marco (Accorsi), and Anita (Serena Rossi, 7 Hours to Win Your ... more

An anthology film centered on two separate women both played by Anna Magnani, Rossellini’s L’Amore comprises two short films about love and loneliness. In The Human Voice based on a play by Jean Cocteau, a woman makes a last-ditch attempt to save her relationship over the phone. In The Miracle based on a ... more

An enthralling documentary following the life and work of Italian singer and composer Paolo Conte, Paolo Conte, Via con me tells the story of an eclectic figure spanning his 50-year career.

Delving into the labyrinth of Conte’s songs, including songs written for a wide range of performers including Adriano Celentano, ... more

Over the past six decades fabled Italian film star Claudia Cardinale has worked with master directors such as Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Sergio Leone and Werner Herzog, featuring in some of the most acclaimed European films of the 1960s and 1970s.

In Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard (1963), Cardinale stars as ... more

Featuring a tremendous ensemble cast, the new drama from acclaimed auteur Nanni Moretti (Mia Madre, The Son's Room) traces the disparate lives of three families who reside in the same apartment block in Rome's stylish Prati neighbourhood.

On the first floor, a young couple (Riccardo Scamarcio ... more

Winner of the Berlin International Film Festival Silver Bear, Elio Germano delivers a knockout performance in Hidden Away, an authentic and visionary portrait of the exceptional artist Antonio Ligabue.

The son of an emigrant Italian mother, Toni (Elio Germano, Bad Tales IFF20) is deported from Switzerland after his ... more

The second chapter of the blockbuster comedy Like a Cat on a Highway (IFF18) sees the return of Paola Cortellesi and Antonio Albanese as foul-mouthed, tattooed Monica and radical chic intellectual Giovanni, three years since the end of their love story.

When Monica ends up in jail because her stepsister twins (Alessandra and ... more

Winner of Best New Director at the 2021 David di Donatello Awards, actor/director Pietro Castellitto delivers an entertaining black comedy which sees two families from opposing social backgrounds collide.

The Pavone and Vismara families are complete opposites. One bourgeois and intellectual, while the other proletarian and Fascist, ... more

In this comedy hit set in Rome, Marco Giallini (Perfect Strangers IFF16, God Willing), Vincenzo Salemme and Giuseppe Battiston (The Big Step IFF20) star as three friends and brothers-in-law, Arturo, Antonio and Sergio, confronted with the same problem.

The men’s happy and peaceful life is upended when they ... more

An entertaining Christmas-themed sequel to the 2019 Festival hit 10 Days Without Mamma, the misadventures of the Rovelli family are back in When Mum is Away...with the Family.

Carlo (Fabio De Luigi) and Giulia (Valentina Lodovini) are grappling with the division of their respective tasks within the family. Since ... more

20th Century Studios The Last Duel is the next epic period action-drama from director & 4 time Oscar-nominee Sir Ridley Scott and stars Emmy Winner Jodie Comer (Killing Eve, Free Guy), two time Academy Award Nominee Adam Driver (Patterson, Marriage Story) and reunites the Academy Award-winning duo of Matt Damon & ... more

Academy Award®-winning documentarian Morgan Neville (20 Feet From Stardom) reveals how Anthony Bourdain went from a chef at an obscure New York restaurant to one of the most notorious and beloved figures in the food world and beyond.

Following Bourdain from the legendary New York dive bar Siberia to a perfect lunch in ... more

Rome, 1976. Valerio (Mattia Garaci) is ten years old and has a vivid imagination. When he witnesses, together with his mother Gina (Barbara Ronchi, Feel Your Memories IFF20), the attack on his father Alfonso (Pierfrancesco Favino in his Venice Film Festival Best Actor-winning role, The Traitor IFF20) by a terrorist group, his ... more

Upcoming Roman director Elisa Amoruso’s semi-autobiographical fiction debut chronicles a young girl’s plight as she strives to make sense of her place in the world under the not-so-watchful eyes of her dysfunctional parents.

It’s 1990 and 13-year-old Nina’s (Emma Fasano) incredibly messy family has been forced ... more

Distinguished by an outstanding cast in top form, the stylish and involving new drama from award-winning writer/director Daniele Luchetti (La Nostra Vita, My Brother is an Only Child) charts the lives of a middle-class Italian family across three ... more

Noomi Rapace (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo; Angel of Mine) stars in this Un Certain Regard prize-winning supernatural drama about a couple who raise a very special child.

In the beautiful but remote wilderness of Iceland, María (Rapace) and Ingvar (Hilmir Snær Guðnason, White Night Wedding) tend ... more

As the sport of climbing turns from a niche pursuit to a mainstream media event, Marc-André Leclerc climbs alone, far from the limelight. On remote alpine faces, the free-spirited 23-year-old makes some of the boldest solo ascents in history. Yet, he draws scant attention. With no cameras, no rope, and no ... more

Persian Lessons is a compelling WWII drama about a Jewish prisoner that pretends to be Iranian to escape execution. Occupied France, 1942. Gilles (Nahuel Perez Biscayart)is arrested by SS soldiers and sent to a camp in Germany. He ... more

Luna Palace Cinemas and Pivot Pictures are excited to announce the highly anticipated multi-award-winning psychological thriller Preparations To Be Together For An Unknown Period Of Time.

Márta Vizy (Natasa Stork) is a 39-year-old Hungarian neurosurgeon. After 20 years in the United States, she returns to Budapest for ... more

Mads Mikkelsen headlines this ingenious, pitch-black Scandi revenge comedy.

Career soldier Markus cuts short his deployment to care for his teenage daughter, Mathilde after his wife is killed in a train crash. But then he has visitors: a fretful statistician and his hacker friends, who believe the crash was no accident – ... more

A narrative depiction of the events leading up to one of the darkest chapters in modern Australian history from MIFF Accelerator Lab alumnus director Justin Kurzel (Snowtown).

Nitram, (Caleb Landry Jones) lives with his mother (Judy Davis) and father (Anthony LaPaglia) in suburban Australia in the Mid 1990s. He lives a life ... more

A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregonian wilderness must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped.

A million miles from ‘Peggy Sue Got Married,’ Cage goes searching for his beloved truffle pig — and himself — in Michael Sarnoski’s ... more

Having just finished collaborating on the Statue of Liberty, Gustave Eiffel is at the high point of his career. The French government has requested he create something spectacular for the “Exposition Universelle” of 1889 in Paris but Gustave Eiffel is only interested in the city’s subway project. His life is turned ... more