Italian Film Festival 2023
Films premiering at the 24th annual Italian Film Festival, touring nationally 19 Sep-25 Oct.
Marco Bellocchio's gripping new historical drama follows the real-life story of a young boy whose abduction from his parents by the Vatican fuelled outrage in 19th-century Italy, and triggered a global scandal.
Josh O'Connor stars in the captivating new fable of lost love from Alice Rohrwacher (Happy As Lazzaro, The Wonders) as a young British archaeologist who gets caught up in an international network dealing in stolen Italian artefacts.
Winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes, Charlotte Vandermeersch and Felix van Groeningen's breathtaking and richly involving story follows two people of different classes who forge a decades-long, life-defining friendship in the Italian Alps.
Riccardo Scamarcio, Isabelle Huppert and Louis Garrel star in writer/director Michele Placido's engrossing historical drama depicting the struggles of the notorious Renaissance painter as he's investigated by the Vatican.
Andrea Di Stefano's stylish new crime thriller stars the always-excellent Pierfrancesco Favino (The Traitor, Nostalgia) as an honourable Milanese police lieutenant whose spotless record comes undone over the course of a fateful night.
The new film from Italian maestro Nanni Moretti (Mia Madre, The Son’s Room, Dear Diary) is a multi-layered comedy following a prolific movie director in the midst of personal and professional crisis in the age of the streaming giants.