Bringing the best of Italian cinema to US theaters.
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Cinema Made in Italy
The Cinema Made in Italy program promotes and distributes contemporary Italian films to theaters in the United States, insuring that the best of Italian cinema is always available to fans, no matter where they live in the country. The series is an initiative sponsored by Cinecittà and is managed by Deutchman Company Inc, which handles the marketing and distribution of the films. In previous years, the initiative has released or supported such films as Paolo Sorrentino’s Academy Award winning Best Foreign Language Film,“The Great Beauty,” Valeria Golino’s “Honey,” Marco Bellochio’s “Dormant Beauty,” Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Me and You,” Nanni Moretti’s “Mia Madre” and Gianfranco Rosi’s Academy Award nominated Best Documentary, “Fire at Sea” among others.
From Academy and BAFTA Award–winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino, LA GRAZIA is a sweeping exploration of love, duty, and personal freedom. Toni Servillo – winner of the Best Actor Award at the 2025 Venice Film Festival – stars as Italy’s outgoing president, Mariano De Santis, navigating moral and personal crossroads with the help of his confidante and daughter, Dorotea (Anna Ferzetti). With Sorrentino’s signature poetic vision and an evocative soundtrack, this heartfelt masterwork is an intimate meditation on fatherhood, conscience, and the enduring question: who owns our days?
WINNER: BEST ACTOR – Toni Servillo – 2025 Venice Film Festival
Official Selection – 2025 New York Film Festival
Official Selection – 2025 Telluride Film Festival
Opens December 5, 2025
New York City – Angelika Film Center
Opens December 12, 2025
Los Angeles – Laemmle Royal
Los Angeles – Laemmle Glendale
Denver – Sie Film Center
Santa Barbara – Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Chicago – Gene Siskel Film Center
Portland, OR – Living Room Theaters
Atlanta – Tara Theater
Miami-Ft. Lauderdale – Coral Gables Art Cinema
Albuquerque – Santa Fe Center for Contemporary Arts
Diciannove
DICIANNOVE a film by Giovanni Tortorici
The highs and lows of a restless youth collide headlong into the concrete realities of adulthood when Leonardo, a teenager from Palermo leaves home for the first time. His studies land him in Siena, by way of London, where he clashes with his instructor, the curriculum, and most chaotically, with himself. Produced by Luca Guadagnino, Diciannove (nineteen), marks the feature filmmaking debut of writer-director Giovanni Tortorici, a bold, brash and bemusing filmmaking talent.
Official Selection – 2024 Venice International Film Festival
“Unflinchingly honest… Tortorici is carrying on a tradition of Italian art films, including Fellini’s I Vitelloni and Pasolini’s Accattone, about disaffected youth who are part of a lost generation.” – Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter
Opens in Theaters July 25, 2025
New York City – Angelika Film Center
Los Angeles – Laemmle Theaters
Vermiglio
VERMIGLIO a film by Maura Delpero
The lush and breathtaking beauty of the Alps, filmed with painterly grace under natural light from frigid winter to redemptive spring, provides the physical and emotional backdrop for Vermiglio, Maura Delpero ‘s visionary film, which won the Silver Lion at the 2024 Venice Film Festival. This singular portrait of a sprawling family, set in the small, mountainous village of Vermiglio during the waning days of WWII, follows a series of dramatic, consequential events after the arrival of a taciturn Sicilian soldier (Giuseppe De Domenico,) who hides out in the town after deserting the army. While there, the soldier develops a romance with the family’s eldest daughter, Lucia (Martina Scrinzi.) Vermiglio shows the lives of a provincial family in a remote village suspended in time by the customs of a fading era.
Conjuring stories from her own family’s past, Delpero creates a deep personal and human tale that recalls the great neorealist movement in Italian cinema, but through Lucia’s perspective Vermiglio feels distinct and novel.
Italy’s Official Selection for the 2025 Academy Awards.
2025 Golden Globe Nominee, Best International Film
2025 Gotham Awards Nominee, Best International Film
Official Selection, 2025 Venice Film Festival
Opens in Theaters
December 25, 2024
New York City – IFC Center
January 3, 2025
Los Angeles – LAEMMLE ROYAL
Chicago – Gene Siskel Film Center
January 17, 2025
Cincinnati – Mariemont
Columbus, OH – Gateway Film Center
January 24, 2025
Santa Barbara – SBIFF Film Center
Louisville – Speed Art Museum
Atlanta – The Tara
LA GRAZIA
DICIANNOVE
VERMIGLIO
