Alba Rohrwacher

Two brothers come of age in a small Italian town in the '60s and '70s. (imdb)

Well-to-do, sophisticated couple Elsa and Michele have a 20 year-old daughter, Alice, and enough money for Elsa to leave her job and fulfill an old dream: study art history. After she graduates, however, their lives change. Michele confesses he hasn't worked in two months and was fired by the company he founded years ago... (cineuropa.org)

World War II Bologna-set drama chronicling a father's love for his troubled daughter. When young Giovanna (Neri) kills one of her friends in a fit of rage she is committed to a mental hospital. At the cost of his wife, Giovanna's father promises to remain as close to her as possible. (list.co.uk)

A tragic love story set at the turn of the millennium in Milan. The film follows the fall of the haute bourgeoisie due to the forces of passion and unconditional love.

Anna is a woman in her early thirties who works as an accountant at a large insurance firm. She lives with her long-time boyfriend Alessio, a nice guy who thinks they should settle down and have a child. (yahoo)

Franco Elica is a filmmaker worried about his daughter marriage with a catholic extremist. He is filming also another version of 'I Promessi Sposi'. But a scandal explodes within the production pushing Franco to escape in Sicilia. Here he meets Mr. Palagonia that proposes him to film his daughter marriage. But Franco, while is recycling himself as ceremony's filmmaker, falls in love for her. (imdb)

The marriage of an actor and a freelance film editor breaks up unexpectedly in front of two filmmakers' camera. (imdb)

Winter 1943. Martina is small child, who stopped talking since the death of her infant brother some years before. She lives in a rural area of central Italy. Her mother is pregnant again and Martina lives for the arrival of her new brother. Meanwhile, the war is getting closer and closer, forcing the people of the village to tread a difficult path, torn between the partisan brigades and the Nazi Army.

Alice and Mattia are both lonely children, scarred by events in their childhood and therefore considered weird by the other children. When they meet each other in high school, they are somehow attracted to each other... and then again, they aren't. The film follows them for the next two decades - but you'll have to wait until the end to see the title explained..

Italian master Marco Bellocchio (Fists in the Pocket, Good Morning, Night, Vincere) offers a multi-faceted exploration of the thorny issue of euthanasia in this response to Italy's famous Eluana Englaro controversy. (tiff.net)

Nothing will be the same at the end of this summer for Gelsomina and her three younger sisters. (imdb)

The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance. (imdb)

A widowed working-class father falls in love with a struggling, poor artist. (imdb)

Hana Doda, still a girl, escapes from her destiny of being wife and servant which is imposed on the women in the inhospitable mountains in Albania. She appeals to the old law of the Kanun and swears her eternal virginity thus becoming a "sworn virgin". She turns into a man, takes up a rifle and becomes Mark, Mark Doda. It is in exchange for this sacrifice that Hana is allowed to be considered at the same level as other men. Her battle does not only mean that she must rebel against what destiny h

One evening, while her parents go out for dinner, 18-year-old Louise, alone in her hotel room at Taj Mahal Mumbai, hears strange noises out in the corridor. Within minutes, she realises that a terrorist attack is underway. Her only connection to the outside world is her cell phone, which allows her to maintain contact with her father, who is desperately trying to reach her from the other side of a city that has been plunged into chaos. Louise must spend a long night alone in the face of danger.

A mother pushes her son, Federico, to visit the convent-prison in Bobbio, where Sister Benedetta is facing charges of witchery for seducing Fabrizio, Federico's twin brother, and making him betray his priestly mission. The mother pressures Fedrico to rehabilitate his brother legacy but he, too, falls under Benedetta's spell, thus sentencing her to a life sentence walled up in prison. 30 years later, Federico, now Cardinal, will meet again Benedetta, still living behind those walls. (Venezia 72)

Two young people in Berlin, a refugee and a homeless punk, form a relationship.

Seven long-time friends get together for a dinner. When they decide to share with each other the content of every text message, email and phone call they receive, many secrets start to unveil and the equilibrium trembles. (imdb)

The film tells the tale of a widowed film director who is in the middle of making a film about an atypical diplomat inspired by his brother. While he has started a new life with Sylvia, he still mourns the death of a former lover, Carlotta, who passed away 20 years earlier; then Carlotta returns from the dead, causing Sylvia to run away. (imdb)

Giano and Luc are traveling through the woods when a storm breaks, forcing them to take shelter in Luc's villa. Gradually and insidiously, a competition emerges between them, with terrible consequences.

A man promises to meet people's desires in exchange for problematic moral tasks

"Lazzaro Felice," about a man living on the margins of society who travels through time. (variety.com)

The ninth short film of the Miu Miu's Women's Tales series reflects Alice Rohrwacher's attention to the surreal world of ordinariness and exceptions.

A daughter torn is between two mothers - one who raised her with love and her biological mother, who instinctively claims her back.

Two cars come face to face in a narrow street in Italy. When neither one of the drivers wants to back down to let the other pass, within no time the whole village is involved. (imdb)

In early 18th century an African slave boy is chosen by a European Comtesse to be baptized and educated. Reaching adulthood, Angelo achieves prominence and becomes the Viennese court mascot until he decides to secretly marry a white woman. (imdb)

Based on the novel by Elena Ferrante, the story of a friendship lasting sixty years between two women. When suddenly her 60-year-old Elena Greco disappears from the life of her closest friend, she begins to describe the story of their many years of friendship. Raffaella Cerullo, known as Lila, met in the first grade of elementary school in 1950. The action of the series takes place in the dangerous and at the same time magical Naples over the space of over 60 years. (HBO)

Captain Vinciguerra has the opportunity to finally see his merits recognized. But the arrival of his son, convinced pacifist, suddenly changes his plans. (mymovies.it)

The portrait of a wounded city in enigmatic images: at its center stand Brussels and the haunting stories of the city's lost souls. (imdb)

Francesca, an Italian-American writer who lives in New York and must return to Rome to retrieve her aging mother.

Lucia, a single mother, struggles to find the right balance between her teenage daughter, a complicated love story and her career as a geometer. Her professional future is compromised when she realizes that the future construction of an ambitious building turns out to be dangerous for the environment because of the inaccurate topographic maps of the city council. (imdb)

An eight-year-old girl hopes that her parents will get back together. She and her brothers go stay with their father in Italy, where they provoke, neglect, delight and love each other. (imdb)

A marriage-in-crisis drama set in Naples and Rome over a long period starting in the 1980s (IMDb).

The story of three families living in three apartments in the same bourgeois condominium. (imdb)

In the 1950s, Alice leaves her Swiss homeland for Lebanon. There, the best years of her life are marred by the threat of war.

Depicts the ascent of fascism in Italy, and its fallout across 1930s Europe. (imdb)

Follow the rebellious girls of a Catholic boarding school before Christmas, a time of war and scarcity.

A young British archeologist gets involved in an international network of stolen Etruscan artifacts. (Mubi)

It is 2085. A young man, one of the few survivors of the human community of old, embarks on a long voyage to find others. (imdb)

The film is freely inspired by the great actress Monica Vitti, but it is in no way a biopic. It is the story of a woman named Monica, who loses her memory and regains meaning in her life

Mathieu lives in Paris, Alice in a small seaside town in western France. He's in his fifties and a well-known actor. She's over forty and a piano teacher. They fell in love some fifteen years ago. Then they separated. Since then, time has passed, each has gone his own way and the wounds have gradually healed. When Mathieu comes to dilute his melancholy in the whirlpool baths of a thalasso, he meets Alice again by chance.

1977: Maria Callas, once the world’s greatest opera diva, lives in seclusion in Paris with her staff and her two poodles. Her health is getting worse and worse. Then she receives a request to go on tour again. Will La Callas sing again? And if so, for whom?