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EXCLUSIVE: Open Roads: New Italian Cinema, nan Italian cinema showcase hosted by Film astatine Lincoln Center and Cinecittà successful New York City, returns for its 25th version this twelvemonth and will tally from May 28 to June 4. Scroll down for nan afloat database of titles.
The programme will characteristic 15 films, including 9 North American premieres.
The arena will unfastened pinch a screening of Carolina Cavalli’s The Kidnapping of Arabella. The movie stars Benedetta Porcaroli arsenic a 28-year-old who runs distant pinch a woman she believes to beryllium a younger type of herself. Also starring are Chris Pine and Eva Robins. Like galore of nan titles successful nan Open Roads lineup, The Kidnapping of Arabella debuted astatine past year’s Venice Film Festival. Porcaroli won nan Venice Orizzonti’s Best Actress grant for her performance.
Laura Samani will bring her 2025 Venice Orizzonti title A Year of School to Open Roads for its North American premiere. The movie follows a 17-year-old Swedish woman who enrolls successful an all-male precocious schoolhouse people successful her caller location of Trieste. Giacomo Covi won nan Orizzonti Best Actor grant for his capacity successful nan film.
Other titles receiving their North American premieres astatine Open Roads see Andrea Di Stefano’s My Tennis Maestro, a sports drama group successful nan 1980s that follows a 13-year-old budding tennis prima and a erstwhile pro connected a shared travel of training and competing on nan Italian coast. And Andrea De Sica’s The Eyes of Others.
Elsewhere, seasoned filmmaker Mario Martone returns to Open Roads pinch his latest Fuori. The film, which was nominated for 9 Donatello Awards, including Best Film, Best Director, and Best Actress for Valeria Golino, follows a writer who lands successful situation for an unexpected act. Inside, she creates a unsocial enslaved pinch immoderate of nan young inmates. Once released from prison, nan women support their relationship to nan astonishment of everyone other successful their lives.
Open Roads, this year, besides celebrates nan 120th day of Roberto Rossellini’s birth. The arena will surface Rossellini’s 1946 movie Paisan and manus a North American premiere to nan doc Roberto Rossellini, Living Without a Script from Ilaria de Laurentiis, Raffaele Brunetti, and Andrea Paolo Massara. The movie is simply a image of nan filmmaker utilizing archival footage.
Open Roads is supported successful collaboration pinch nan Italian Cultural Institute successful New York and pinch nan support of NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, and nan New York State Council connected nan Arts pinch nan support of nan Office of nan Governor and nan New York State Legislature.
Film astatine Lincoln Center Programmer Dan Sullivan described this year’s version arsenic “especially stimulating” pinch its attraction connected “spotlighting immoderate of Italy’s top up-and-coming talent” while honoring Roberto Rossellini, a “pivotal, paradigm-shifting fig successful nan history of world cinema.”
“Taken arsenic a whole, this lineup offers immoderate absorbing propositions astir nan coming and early of Italian cinema, while besides profoundly engaging pinch its incomparable past,” Sullivan said.
Manuela Cacciamani, CEO of Cinecittà, hailed Open Roads arsenic a champion of Italian cinema and said nan event’s 25th version was a chopped people of success, but besides provided “an opportunity to look ahead.”
“Perhaps successful ray of this anniversary, nan action of Italian films heading to Film astatine Lincoln Center feels particularly dazzling—young, experimental, and afloat of caller energy,” he said. “And location is simply a towering masterpiece: Paisà by Roberto Rossellini. A movie that, 60 years ago, captured Italy pinch striking immediacy—alive pinch expressive urgency and hope.”
Cacciamani added: “Here they are: this year’s Open Roads films connection a moving snapshot of a captious and evolving Italian cinema, 1 that gives america existent logic to beryllium hopeful for nan roadworthy ahead. Open Roads knows—and will proceed to know—how to clasp this imaginative energy.”
OPEN ROADS 2026 LINEUP:
All films will surface astatine nan Walter Reade Theater (165 W. 65th Street)
Opening Night
The Kidnapping of Arabella / Il rapimento di Arabella
Carolina Cavalli, 2025, Italy, 107m
Italian pinch English subtitles
New York Premiere
A delightfully idiosyncratic homage to sisterhood, Carolina Cavalli’s sophomore characteristic stars Benedetta
Porcaroli arsenic stifled 28-year-old Holly, who has a chance brushwood pinch nan titular 8-year-old (Lucrezia
Guglielmino). Intuitively convinced that this woman is rather virtually a younger type of herself, Holly runs
away pinch Arabella and sets into mobility a often comic and conscionable arsenic often profoundly reflective chain
of events by which our heroines will strive to make bid pinch their pasts, their present, and their
futures. Chris Pine makes an unforgettable quality arsenic Arabella’s deadpan novelist father. Porcaroli
won nan Orizzonti Best Actress Award astatine nan film’s Venice Film Festival premiere, and she was nominated
for a Donatello Award, alongside Cavalli’s motion for Best New Director, for her 2022 debut, Amanda. An
Oscilloscope Laboratories release.
Thursday, May 28 astatine 7:00pm – Q&A pinch Carolina Cavalli and Benedetta Porcaroli
Wednesday, June 3 astatine 6:00pm
A Brief Affair / Breve storia d’amore
Ludovica Rampoldi, 2025, Italy, 100m
Italian pinch English subtitles
North American Premiere
A delectably funny and mischievous activity drama that mines romanticist infidelity to unforgettable effect,
decorated screenwriter Ludovica Rampoldi’s characteristic debut astatine nan helm boasts an all-star formed much than
up to nan task of performing her meticulously crafted games of nan heart. Pilar Fogliati’s Lea meets cute
with Adriano Giannini’s Rocco and they statesman a hesitant affair, which takes a move erstwhile Lea becomes a
patient of Rocco’s therapist woman (a brilliant, devious Valeria Golino). A Brief Affair’s pleasures are
unmistakably throwback, but Rampoldi unspools her play pinch a sly, modern power that makes its
twists and turns each nan much delightful. Rampoldi earned a information for Best New Director astatine this
year’s Donatello Awards, and Golino was nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
Friday, May 29 astatine 6:00pm – Q&A pinch Ludovica Rampoldi
Tuesday, June 2 astatine 3:30pm
Agnus Dei
Massimiliano Camaiti, 2025, Italy, 73m
Italian pinch English subtitles
North American Premiere
A fascinating, diligent study of papal arcana, Massimilano Camaiti’s hypnotic and sensitive
documentary captures nan process by which, each twelvemonth astatine nan Monastery of Saint Cecilia successful Rome, two
newborn lambs are blessed and afforded curen befitting His Holiness himself, cared for intimately by a
cloistered nun who prepares their wool for its destiny arsenic portion of a ineffable vestment to beryllium worn by the
Pope connected June 29, nan Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul. A Venice Film Festival action successful nan College
Cinema section, Agnus Dei is an indelible, transfixing glimpse astatine movingly mysterious procedures carried out
in a sacred, somewhat obscure spot while nan winds of alteration rustle extracurricular its walls.
Sunday, May 31 astatine 3:00pm
Thursday, June 4 astatine 12:30pm
Elisa
Leonardo Di Costanzo, 2025, Italy/Switzerland, 105m
Italian and French pinch English subtitles
Italian pinch English subtitles
New York Premiere
Leonardo Di Costanzo (The Inner Cage, Open Roads 2022) returns pinch this magnetic study of pathology
and memory, based connected real-life criminological investigation connected perpetrators of convulsive crimes. Barbara Ronchi
stars arsenic nan titular convict, 10 years into a situation condemnation aft having been convicted of murdering her
sister without immoderate evident motive. Elisa claims to retrieve thing astir nan crime and refuses to
delve into her ain past, but erstwhile she agrees to beryllium a taxable for a criminologist’s (Roschdy Zem)
research, she finds herself confronting head-on her repressed feelings of guilt and nan feasibility of
something for illustration redemption. Valeria Golino plays a supporting domiciled arsenic nan grieving, insistent mother of a
victim who meets pinch Zem’s criminologist. Nominated for 2 Donatello Awards, including Best Actress
for Ronchi.
Friday, May 29 astatine 8:30pm – Q&A pinch Barbara Ronchi
Thursday, June 4 astatine 2:30pm
The Eyes of Others / Gli occhi degli altri
Andrea De Sica, 2025, Italy, 90m
Italian pinch English subtitles
North American Premiere
The latest from Andrea De Sica (Children of nan Night, Open Roads 2017) is simply a captivatingly wicked,
satirical parable astir intersexual obsession and nan unit of power. An enigmatic, astonishing Jasmine
Trinca (who won nan Monica Vitti Award for Best Actress astatine nan Rome Film Festival) stars arsenic Elena, a
woman whose presence connected nan backstage land of an exorbitantly able marquis (Filippo Timi) inaugurates
a by turns passionately tender, sordid, and murderous chronicle of nan conflict betwixt love, eros, and
reckless, ruthless privilege. The rich | textures and heavy ambiance of The Eyes of Others are pure
high-modernist 1960s Italian cinema, but De Sica unfurls nan film’s winding intrigues pinch a
contemporary consciousness of suspense, carnality, and ocular boldness.
Saturday, May 30 astatine 6:00pm – Q&A pinch Andrea De Sica
Tuesday, June 2 astatine 8:30pm
Fuori
Mario Martone, 2025, Italy/France, 115m
Italian pinch English subtitles
New York Premiere
One of Italian cinema’s existent latter-day maestros, Mario Martone returns to Open Roads (following a
three-film sidebar pinch his movie Nostalgia successful 2023) pinch this richly traced, dimensional, and surprising
real-life communicative of nan enslaved betwixt 3 women who meet successful prison—one of whom, Goliarda Sapienza
(Valeria Golino, operating astatine nan tallness of her powers), is simply a well-known writer. After nan 3 are
released, their narration deepens amid nan challenges of rejoining nine connected nan outside. Based connected a
1983 caller by Sapienza, Fuori is marked by Martone’s characteristically elegant dramatization,
performed and embodied pinch an entrancing brilliance by a never-better Golino. Nominated for nine
Donatello Awards, including Best Film, Best Director, and Best Actress for Golino.
Thursday, May 28 astatine 3:30pm
I Want Her Dead / Il quieto vivere
Gianluca Matarrese, 2025, Italy, 86m
Italian pinch English subtitles
North American Premiere
Mining decades-long conflicts wrong his ain family to analyse nan ties that hindrance successful a mini Calabrian
village, Gianluca Matarrese boldly melds high-tension documentary and expressive fabrication successful this communicative of
enmity betwixt Luisa and Imma, 2 sisters-in-law pinch a communal axe to grind (to opportunity nan least).
Matarrese delves into nan history underlying these 2 women’s longstanding feud and arrives astatine a
tragicomic, inventive meditation connected nan metaphysical anticipation of reconciliation and forgiveness.
Sunday, May 31 astatine 12:30pm
La gioia
Nicolangelo Gelormini, 2025, Italy, 108m
Italian pinch English subtitles
New York Premiere
A blackly comic communicative astir nan fragility of quality relationship successful a cynical world, Nicolangelo Gelormini’s
new movie stars Valeria Golino arsenic a cloistered precocious schoolhouse coach surviving nether nan oppressive thumb of her
parents. An improbable narration emerges betwixt her and 1 of her students (Saul Nanni), a
hustler trading his assemblage to support his mother, and nan fallout finds intersexual repression and quasi-nihilistic
social ambition colliding to terrible, engrossing effect. In a twelvemonth of standout roles for Golino, La gioia
might people her astir playful, astonishing performance.
Friday, May 29 astatine 3:00pm – Q&A pinch Nicolangelo Gelormini
Tuesday, June 2 astatine 1:00pm
Mosquitoes / Le bambine
Valentina Bertani, Nicole Bertani, 2025, Italy/Switzerland/France, 105m
Italian pinch English subtitles
North American Premiere
The debut characteristic from sisters Valentina and Nicole Bertani is simply a swirling, stylish twist connected the
coming-of-age film. Set successful 1997, nan movie follows 8-year-old Linda, who hails from a able family, arsenic she
meets 2 different girls, Azzura and Martha, forging a summertime sisterhood that protects them in
clashes awesome and insignificant pinch nan selfish, petty agendas of nan adults successful their midst. An particularly visually
striking debut, Mosquitoes exists successful a saturated hyperreality that is consummately engrossing, and
announces nan Bertani sisters arsenic formidable portraitists of girlhood formed against nan backdrop of an
alternately beautiful and oppressive world.
Sunday, May 31 astatine 5:30pm
Wednesday, June 3 astatine 8:30pm
My Tennis Maestro / Il maestro
Andrea Di Stefano, 2025, Italy, 125m
Italian pinch English subtitles
North American Premiere
A sports drama pinch a large heart, nan latest from Andrea Di Stefano reteams nan head pinch his Last
Night of Amore prima Pierfrancesco Favino for a charming, delicate communicative of nan crushing expectations
levied upon young diversion prodigies. Set successful nan precocious 1980s, nan movie follows 13-year-old Felice (an
exceptional Tiziano Menichelli), a budding tennis prima whose overbearing begetter hooks him up pinch Raul
Getti (Favino), a flameout erstwhile pro pinch a caller lithium medicine and a superior ladies-man streak.
Raul and Felice group disconnected connected a shared travel of training and competing on nan Italian seashore arsenic Felice
struggles to fig retired his personality extracurricular of his on-the-court gifts, while Raul questions whether his
eminently laid-back attack is simply a bully fresh for his prima pupil.
Sunday, May 30 astatine 8:45pm – Q&A pinch Andrea Di Stefano
Orfeo
Virgilio Villoresi, 2025, Italy, 74m
Italian pinch English subtitles
North American Premiere
A ocular escapade marked by general ingenuity and a profound emotion for dream logic, Virgilio
Villoresi’s singular return connected nan story of Orpheus is an entrancing ceremony of nan possibilities
of cinematic artifice. Villoresi reenvisions Orpheus arsenic a loner pianist whose regard meets that of a
stranger, Eura, astatine nan nine wherever he performs 1 night; they autumn successful love, only for Eura to
disappear almost arsenic suddenly. Orpheus catches a glimpse of her immoderate clip later and follows
her into what we travel to recognize is simply a visionary, sensual reimagination of nan underworld.
Adapted from Dino Buzzati’s 1969 schematic caller Poema a fumetti, Villoresi’s characteristic debut combines
beautiful 16mm photography, lovingly handcrafted sets, meticulously orchestrated stop-motion
animation, and in-camera optical effects to get astatine a mesmerizing, artisanal activity that announces its
director arsenic 1 of Italian cinema’s astir breathtaking caller voices. An Oscilloscope Laboratories release.
Sunday, May 31 astatine 8:45pm
Wednesday, June 3 astatine 3:30pm
Primavera
Damiano Michieletto, 2025, Italy, 111m
Italian pinch English subtitles
New York Premiere
The improbable narration betwixt a young orphan violin virtuoso and composer Antonio Vivaldi in
early-18th-century Venice is astatine nan bosom of acclaimed opera and theatre head Damiano Michieletto’s
debut feature. Cecilia (Tecla Insolia) lives astatine nan Ospedale della Pietà, a secluded location for abandoned
girls tally by no-nonsense nuns, while she awaits nan return of nan man pinch whom she will participate an
arranged matrimony erstwhile he returns location from war. But erstwhile nan Pietà brings connected Vivaldi to service as
their caller philharmonic instructor, Cecilia’s life takes a turn, and nan anticipation of a hitherto unimagined future
emerges. Written by Ludovica Rampoldi (whose ain directorial debut, A Brief Affair, is besides successful this year’s
edition of Open Roads), Primavera is simply a gripping, gorgeously realized meditation connected nan seldom-simple
relationship betwixt talent and destiny.
Friday, May 29 astatine 12:00pm
Wednesday, June 3 astatine 1:00pm
Roberto Rossellini, Living Without a Script / Roberto Rossellini, Più di una Vita
Ilaria de Laurentiis, Raffaele Brunetti, Andrea Paolo Massara, 2025, Italy, 96m
Italian pinch English subtitles
North American Premiere
2026 marks nan 120th day of nan commencement of Roberto Rossellini, 1 of 20th-century Italian cinema’s
undisputed masters. But arsenic this rich | caller documentary shows us, Rossellini recovered himself astatine a
particularly challenging constituent successful his profession 70 years earlier, successful 1956, reeling from nan mixed consequence to
his legendary films pinch woman Ingrid Bergman arsenic their matrimony appears to beryllium astatine nan constituent of collapse. An
invitation from nan Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, to sprout a documentary astir modern
India marks a reinvention for Rossellini and an breathtaking caller improvement successful his iconic artistry. Using a
wealth of archival footage, this profoundly pleasurable documentary paints a dazzling image of Rossellini
across nan years starring up to his decease successful 1977, and is an ecstatic, cinephilic tribute to 1 of world
cinema’s existent titans.
Monday, June 1 astatine 6:00pm – Introduction by Ingrid Rossellini
A Year of School / Un anno di scuola
Laura Samani, 2025, Italy/France, 102m
English, Italian, and Swedish pinch English subtitles
North American Premiere
The latest from Laura Samani (Small Body, Open Roads 2022) recasts a 1929 novella by Giani Stuparich successful 2007 Trieste, pursuing 17-year-old Swede Fredrika (Stella Wendick) arsenic she enrolls successful an otherwise
all-male people astatine nan section method precocious schoolhouse aft her begetter uproots her family pursuing his
reassignment to nan metropolis by his employer. Fredrika’s friendships pinch nan boys successful her midst toggle shape her,
leaving her navigating nan currents of burgeoning adulthood. Featuring an particularly magnetic
performance by Giacomo Covi, who won nan Orizzonti Best Actor Award astatine nan Venice Film Festival.
Tuesday, June 2 astatine 6:00pm
Roberto Rossellini 120th Birthday Tribute Screening
Paisan / Paísa
Roberto Rossellini, 1946, Italy, 126m
English, German, and Italian pinch English subtitles
Roberto Rossellini followed up his paradigm-shifting Rome, Open City pinch this exceptionally ambitious
anthology movie group astatine nan extremity of World War II, chronicling nan liberation of Italy from a multitude of
perspectives gathered from crossed nan country. Marked by nan documentary-infused
directness of Rome, Open City, nan film’s formed of master actors and striking nonprofessionals enact a kaleidoscopic relationship of nan utmost consequences of life during
wartime, arsenic good arsenic nan emerging relations betwixt American soldiers connected their liberation
campaign and nan Italian civilians they transverse paths with. A important installment of his War Trilogy
(alongside Rome, Open City and Germany Year Zero), Paisan endures arsenic 1 of nan awesome cinematic
depictions of nan effects of warfare connected nan lives of mundane people—and a signature work
in Rossellini’s astonishing oeuvre.
Monday, June 1 astatine 8:30pm – Introduction by Ingrid Rossellini
