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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

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

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)...

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I 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...

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The 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...

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Don'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...

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The 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.

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Banat

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 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...

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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

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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Pizza 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...

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Montedoro

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)...

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Let 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...

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The 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...

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I 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...

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Doc Shorts: The Unexpected

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The 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...

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Call 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...

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Once 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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