The Wonders
The Wonders Italy/Switzerland/Germany, 2014, 110 min., Italian, French & German Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and a standout at the New York Film Festival, young...
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Sworn Virgin Italy/Switzerland/Germany/Albania, 2015, 84 min., Albanian & Italian In the harsh mountains of Albania, Hana (Alba Rohrwacher) is required by tribal tradition to become a wife and a...
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Montedoro Italy, 2014, 88 min., Italian A moving story about the pursuit of a lost heritage, “Montedoro” is based on lead actress Pia Marie Mann’s true story. When a middle-aged American woman (Mann)...
View ArticleI Can Quit Whenever I Want
I Can Quit Whenever I Want Italy, 2014, 100 min., Italian The Best Film winner at the Reykjavik Film Festival, this smart, topical satire follows a gang of underemployed academics who pull a “Breaking...
View ArticleThe Dinner
The Dinner Italy, 2015, 92 min., Italian Based on Herman Koch’s provocative New York Times bestseller, “The Dinner” turns an ordinary meal among family into a taut morality play as the limits of...
View ArticleDon't Be Bad
Don't Be Bad The Italian submission for Best Foreign-Language Film at last year’s Academy Awards, “Don’t Be Bad” is the final work of cult director Claudio Caligari, who died of cancer before its...
View ArticleThe Confessions
The Confessions At a G8 meeting held at a luxury hotel on the German coast, the world's most powerful economists gather to enact important decisions that will deeply influence the world economy.
View ArticleBanat
Banat Agronomist Ivo, frustrated by the lack of opportunity in his Italian home of Bari, accepts a job offer in Banat, a fertile region of Romania.
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Arianna Arianna is 19 years old and still has not had her first menstrual cycle. Despite the fact that her breasts have become slightly enlarged, the hormones her gynecologist has prescribed do not...
View ArticleThe Wonders
The Wonders Italy/Switzerland/Germany, 2014, 110 min., Italian, French & German Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and a standout at the New York Film Festival, young...
View ArticleSworn Virgin
Sworn Virgin Italy/Switzerland/Germany/Albania, 2015, 84 min., Albanian & Italian In the harsh mountains of Albania, Hana (Alba Rohrwacher) is required by tribal tradition to become a wife and a...
View ArticlePizza Shop: An Italian-American Dream
What is an immigrant’s typical experience in America? What does he sacrifice, and what does he gain? “Pizza Shop” provides one family’s answer to those questions, lovingly illustrating what it means...
View ArticleMontedoro
Montedoro Italy, 2014, 88 min., Italian A moving story about the pursuit of a lost heritage, “Montedoro” is based on lead actress Pia Marie Mann’s true story. When a middle-aged American woman (Mann)...
View ArticleLet Yourself Go
Let Yourself Go In this Italian variant on the screwball comedy, an uptight psychologist gets more than just a physical workout when he signs up for personal-training sessions with an attractive young...
View ArticleThe Leisure Seeker
The Leisure Seeker The first film in English by Italian director Paolo Virzi (“Human Capital”), "The Leisure Seeker"— which debuted at the Venice film fest — tells the story of a runaway couple going...
View ArticleI Can Quit Whenever I Want
I Can Quit Whenever I Want Italy, 2014, 100 min., Italian The Best Film winner at the Reykjavik Film Festival, this smart, topical satire follows a gang of underemployed academics who pull a “Breaking...
View ArticleThe Dinner
The Dinner Italy, 2015, 92 min., Italian Based on Herman Koch’s provocative New York Times bestseller, “The Dinner” turns an ordinary meal among family into a taut morality play as the limits of...
View ArticleCall Me by Your Name
Call Me by Your Name It’s the summer of 1983 in the north of Italy, and Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), a precocious 17-year-old American-Italian boy, spends his days in his family’s 17th-century...
View ArticleOnce Upon a Time in the West
Once Upon a Time in the West Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in the West” — a Western-to-end-all-Westerns — brings SLIFF Golden Anniversaries: 1968 retrospective to an appropriately rousing conclusion.
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