Barbara Ronchi

In late 1940s Italy, a mother makes the difficult decision to send her son to the north, where he catches glimpses of a new life away from poverty.

In this time-jumping dramedy, a workaholic who's always in a rush now wants life to slow down when he finds himself leaping ahead a year every few hours.

In 1980s -1990s Italy, Riccardo Schicchi's agency Diva Futura turns free love into porn, making stars of Ilona Staller, Moana Pozzi and others known around the world. Their fame leads to Cicciolina's election and Pozzi's mayoral run.

Aspiring opera composer Il Boemo, mentor to Mozart, pours his heart into his music while embracing his sexuality in this lush 18th-century biopic.

Luca and Lucilla, two university students, choose not to leave their dreams and the city of L'Aquila after the earthquake of April 6, 2009.

When two best friends join a gang in post-apocalyptic Italy, they find everything they ever wanted: money, family, and a charismatic father figure. With a new female friend pushing them further apart, an obsessed cop hounding the gang, and their leader becoming increasingly unhinged, the boys barrel toward a confrontation that will determine if their bond is strong enough to survive.

The film follows the true story of how a six-year-old Jewish boy, Edgardo Mortara, was taken by the Catholic Church following claims that he was baptized by the family’s maid as a baby. While the distraught Mortara family fight to get him back, they find themselves at the epicentre of a wider historical battle between the forces of Catholic authoritarianism and the growing opposition movement.

In her debut as a director, actress Valeria Golino (Rain Man) has made a powerful drama about an unusual job. Irene (Jasmine Trinca) lives alone on the coastline outside Rome. She often travels to Mexico where she can legally buy a powerful barbiturate. Working under the name of "Honey," her clandestine job is to help terminally ill people to die with dignity by giving them the drug.