Italian Film Festival 2024
Films premiering at the 25th annual Italian Film Festival, touring nationally 18 Sep-23 Oct.
Doing for Naples what The Great Beauty did for Rome, Academy Award-winner Paolo Sorrentino's new film is a visually and aurally stunning, decades-spanning romantic drama about a Neapolitan woman’s search for happiness and fulfilment.
Written and directed by dynamic Italian actress and singer Margherita Vicario, GLORIA! depicts the ebullient, music-fuelled story of an overlooked maid at a Venetian orphanage whose hidden talent helps inspire an uprising.
Led by Chiara Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve, the new film from Christophe Honoré is a joyous imagining of the daily lives of a creative family, centring on the legacy of the great Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni.
Italy's #1 box office smash of 2024, the new dramedy from Riccardo Milani (A Cat On A Highway) follows a primary school teacher who struggles to adapt to small-town life after he relocates to a remote mountain village.
The formidable Pierfrancesco Favino stars in Edoardo de Angelis' gripping new maritime thriller, based on the true story of a Sicilian WWII naval captain's act of wartime humanitarianism.