Antonello Puglisi

The Best of Youth

Marco Tullio Giordana

Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni

Spanning nearly four decades, this generational epic follows two Italian brothers from a middle-class family through some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history after their life paths diverge thanks to one fateful encounter during the summer of 1966.

Malena

Giuseppe Tornatore

Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Sulfaro

During WWII, a teenage boy discovering himself becomes love-stricken by Malèna, a sensual woman living in a small, narrow-minded Italian town.

The Star Maker

Giuseppe Tornatore

Sergio Castellitto, Tiziana Lodato

The adventures and deceptions of a photographer who travels through small villages of 1950s Sicily pretending to work for the big film studios in Rome.

Il Divo

Paolo Sorrentino

Toni Servillo, Anna Bonaiuto

Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant mobsters implicate him in the crimes of Cosa Nostra.

At War for Love

Pif

Pif, Miriam Leone

It's 1943 and World War II is raging in Europe. In New York, Arturo and Flora the daughter of a restaurant owner are in love, but she is promised in marriage to the son of a Mafia boss. There is a way around this, but to be able to marry Flora, Arturo needs to get permission from her father, who lives in a village in Sicily. Arturo doesn't have any money, so the only way he can get to Sicily is to enlist in the U.S. Army, which is preparing for a landing on the island.

Oltremare - Non è l'America

Nello Correale

Iaia Forte, Leo Gullotta