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Italian Film Festival 2024

Films premiering at the 25th annual Italian Film Festival, touring nationally 18 Sep-23 Oct.

OPENING NIGHT GALA - 2024 ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL (UNTIL 23 OCT)

Written and directed by dynamic Italian actress and singer Margherita Vicario, GLORIA! depicts the ebullient, music-fuelled story of an overlooked maid at a Venetian orphanage whose hidden talent helps inspire an uprising.

CENTREPIECE SELECTION - 2024 ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL (UNTIL 23 OCT)

A new film from Academy Award-winner Paolo Sorrentino is always an event to celebrate, and his stunning, decades-spanning romantic drama about a Neapolitan woman’s search for happiness and fulfilment is no exception.

SPECIAL PRESENTATION - 2024 ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL (UNTIL 23 OCT)

Led by Chiara Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve, the new film from Christophe Honoré is a joyous imagining of the daily lives of a creative family, centring on the legacy of the great Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni.

OFFICIAL SELECTION - 2024 ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL (UNTIL 23 OCT)

Italy's #1 box office smash of 2024, the new dramedy from Riccardo Milani (A Cat On A Highway) follows a primary school teacher who struggles to adapt to small-town life after he relocates to a remote mountain village.

OFFICIAL SELECTION - 2024 ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL (UNTIL 23 OCT)

The formidable Pierfrancesco Favino stars in Edoardo de Angelis' gripping new maritime thriller, based on the true story of a Sicilian WWII naval captain's act of wartime humanitarianism.