Cinema Made in Italy

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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.

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The Kidnapping of Arabella

THE KIDNAPPING OF ARABELLA
a film by Carolina Cavalli

Starring Benedetta Porcaroli, Lucrezia Guglielmino, Chris Pine

Holly spends days at her dead-end job fantasizing about holes in the space-time continuum and wondering where her life went wrong. When she meets Arabella, an eight-year-old rebel hoping to run away from her self-absorbed author father, Holly becomes convinced their meeting is a cosmic sign, and that Arabella is, in fact, her past self, sent back for a second chance. The two embark on an unconventional road trip between two lost souls who might be exactly what the other needs.

WINNER, BEST ACTRESS – 2025 Venice Film Festival

OPENING NIGHT, 2026 OPEN ROADS – Film at Lincoln Center

ONLY IN THEATERS

July 17, 2026

NYC – IFC Center

July 31. 2026

Chicago – Gene Siskel Film Center
Detroit – Detroit Institute of Art

MORE TO COME

The Last One for the Road

THE LAST ONE FOR THE ROAD
a film by Francesco Sossai

Two middle-aged friends, who swear each drink is their last, cross paths with a shy architecture student and take him under their wing on a free-flowing bender through the Italian countryside in a scruffy intergenerational odyssey.

Official Selection,
Un Certain Regard
2025 Cannes Film Festival

Official Selection,
2025 Toronto International
Film Festival

Official Selection, 2025 New York Film Festival

“A pleasant Italian gem… loose-limbed and quietly enchanting”
—Tomris Laffly, Variety

“Reminiscent of the ’70s work of Robert Altman and Hal Ashby”
–Frank J. Avella, The Contending

“A delightful trip through Italy”
–Rory O’Connor, The Film Stage

ONLY IN THEATERS

Opens May 1, 2026

New York City – Film at Lincoln Center – TICKETS
New York City – IFC Center – TICKETS

May 8, 2026

Los Angeles – Laemmle Royal- TICKETS

May 15, 2026

Cleveland – Cleveland Cinematheque – TICKETS
Santa Fe – Center for Contemporary Arts – TICKETS
Burlington, VT – Partizanfilm
AlberquerquE – Guild Cinema – TICKETS

May 16, 2026

Scottsdale, AZ – Harkins Shea 14

May 22, 2026

Oklahoma City – Oklahoma City Museum of Art – TICKETS
Tallahassee, FL – Tallahassee Film Society at IMAX Dome

May 23, 2026

Cambridge, MA – Brattle Theater

More to come

Pompei: Below the Clouds

POMPEI: BELOW THE CLOUDS
a film by Gianfranco Rosi

From award-winning filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi comes Pompei: Below the Clouds, a striking portrait of life in Naples, a city living in the shadow of Vesuvius. Beneath the quiet threat of eruption, people go about their days: archaeologists unearth the past, children learn as the earth hums, firefighters wait for the next call. The result is a portrait at once local and universal: a reflection on humanity’s capacity to live, love, and rebuild in the shadow of the unimaginable.

WINNER: Special Jury Prize, 2025 Venice Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION: 2025 New York Film Festival

” ★★★★★ An intensely disquieting, utterly distinctive film… superb”
–The Guardian

“Gianfranco Rosi makes documentaries like no one else.”
— The Hollywood Reporter

“A documentary fascinated by the fragility and suspension of life”
— RogerEbert.com