{"id":29686,"date":"2025-05-02T22:25:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T02:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=29686"},"modified":"2025-05-04T22:37:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T02:37:04","slug":"flc-and-cinecitta-announce-the-24th-edition-of-open-roads-new-italian-cinema-may-29-june-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=29686","title":{"rendered":"FLC and Cinecitt\u00e0 Announce the 24th Edition of Open Roads: New Italian Cinema, May 29 – June 5"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a9Courtesy of Film at Lincoln Center, The Sicilian Letters, The Time it Takes, Diamonds, The Battlefield, Where the Night Stands Still<\/span><\/p>\n

FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER AND CINECITT\u00c0
\n<\/span><\/b>\u00a0ANNOUNCE THE 24th EDITION OF
\n<\/span><\/b>OPEN\u00a0ROAD<\/span>S: NEW ITALIAN CINEMA, MAY 29\u2013JUNE 5<\/span><\/b><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

14 features including the New York premiere of\u00a0Open<\/span>ing Night film, Francesca Comencini<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0The Time It Takes<\/i>, with Fabrizio Gifuni in person<\/b><\/p>\n

Scheduled to appear in person are Alessandro Cassigoli & Casey Kauffman, Gianluca De Serio & Massimiliano De Serio, Liryc Dela Cruz, Sara Fgaier, Alissa Jung, Silvia Luzi & Luca Bellino, Ferzan \u00d6zpetek, Antonio Piazza & Fabio Grassadonia, and Andrea Segre.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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The Sicilian Letters, The Time it Takes, Diamonds, The Battlefield, Where the Night Stands Still<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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New York, NY (May 1, 2025) \u2013\u00a0<\/span>Film at Lincoln Center<\/a> and Cinecitt\u00e0<\/a> announce the lineup for the 24th edition of\u00a0Open<\/span>\u00a0Road<\/span>s: New Italian Cinema, running from May 29 to June 5.<\/p>\n

Open<\/span>\u00a0Road<\/span>s: New Italian Cinema is the premier showcase for the most compelling voices in contemporary Italian filmmaking. This year\u2019s edition presents 14 new feature films, ranging from works by acclaimed directors returning to\u00a0Open<\/span>\u00a0Road<\/span>s, to notable debuts by four new filmmakers\u2014underscoring the breadth and vitality of Italian cinema today. Many of the filmmakers will be present to discuss their films. The festival\u00a0open<\/span>s with the New York premiere of Francesca Comencini\u2019s latest film,\u00a0The Time It Takes<\/i>, which is nominated for six David di Donatello awards, including Best Film, Best Director, and Best Actor for its star, Fabrizio Gifuni, who will be present for a Q&A. The film is a deeply personal cinematic autobiography about Comencini\u2019s relationship with her legendary filmmaker father, Luigi Comencini. Romana Maggiora Vergano, who plays Francesca, won the Pasinetti Award for Best Actress at its Venice Film Festival debut.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe lineup for this year\u2019s edition of\u00a0Open<\/span>\u00a0Road<\/span>s: New Italian Cinema represents an Italian cinema which has never been more international, more responsive to social and political developments both at home and abroad, more adventurous in terms of both style and substance,\u201d said Dan Sullivan, FLC Programmer. \u201cI\u2019m particularly struck by the number of younger, even debuting, directors in the festival this year: the future of Italian cinema is bright, and it\u2019s exciting to catch these new talents at an early stage of their artistic developments.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a context of very rapid changes for both the market and the audience, the excellent news emerging from the mosaic of titles in\u00a0Open<\/span>\u00a0Road<\/span>s 2025 is that Italian cinema is showing productive maturity,\u201d said Manuela Cacciamani, CEO of Cinecitt\u00e0. \u201cIt knows how to adapt to different challenges, it hits the box office and embraces new languages, it engages in international co-productions without forgetting its own history and roots. As Thierry Fr\u00e9maux recently reminded us in Cannes, and as Dan Sullivan confirms here at Film at Lincoln Center, our cinema is experiencing a moment of vitality and talent. Our cinema, as the title of this event suggests, has all\u00a0road<\/span>s\u00a0open<\/span>, and the 14 films in the lineup give us a sense of awareness that everyone in the industry needs to have.\u201d<\/p>\n

Open<\/span>\u00a0Road<\/span>s welcomes back several acclaimed filmmakers with a slate of North American and New York premieres. Highlights include Francesco Costabile\u2019s\u00a0Familia<\/i>, a tense family drama and exploration of political extremism, nominated for eight Donatello Awards; Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio\u2019s documentary\u00a0Canone effimero<\/i>, a tribute to the local musical customs of Italy\u2019s varied regions, which received a Special Mention from the Documentary Award jury at the 2024 Berlinale; the North American premiere of Gianni Amelio\u2019s\u00a0Battleground<\/i>, a gripping WWII parable about courage and compassion; Ferzan \u00d6zpetek\u2019s\u00a0Diamonds<\/i>, an homage to costume design set in a 1970s Roman fashion house; and the latest film from Silvia Luzi and Luca Bellino,\u00a0Luce<\/i>, a portrait of a lonely leatherworker stifled by her surroundings.<\/p>\n

Making their\u00a0Open<\/span>\u00a0Road<\/span>s debut are Alessandro Cassigoli and Casey Kauffman with\u00a0Vittoria<\/i>, about a hairdresser navigating the world of adoption in search of a young girl who appears in her dreams, and Peter Kerekes with\u00a0Wishing on a Star<\/i>, a fiction\/documentary hybrid that investigates the current state of human bonds through an astrologer and her efforts to help her clients find love.<\/p>\n

Award-winning actor Elio Germano stars in two standout selections this year. He won Best Actor at the Rome Film Festival for his role as Enrico Berlinguer, former leader of the Italian Communist Party, in Andrea Segre\u2019s\u00a0The Great Ambition<\/i>, which makes its North American premiere. Germano also appears alongside Toni Servillo in the New York premiere of\u00a0Sicilian Letters\u00a0<\/i>by Antonio Piazza and Fabio Grassadonia, a bold take on the Italian crime film that earned multiple critics\u2019 awards at Venice.<\/p>\n

North American premieres of additional emerging voices from Italy making their first\u00a0Open<\/span>\u00a0Road<\/span>s appearances and feature film debuts are: Liryc Dela Cruz\u2019s\u00a0Where the Night Stands Still<\/i>, centering on the reunion of three Filipino siblings and their lingering resentments after the eldest inherits a villa from her boss; Isabella Torre\u2019s hypnotic\u00a0Basileia<\/i>, making its North American premiere following its Closing Film selection at the 2024 Venice Film Festival\u2019s Venice Days sidebar, about the supernatural consequences of an illegal archaeological dig in southern Calabria; and Alissa Jung\u2019s\u00a0Paternal Leave<\/i>, a sensitive story of a daughter reconnecting with her father, which made its world premiere at the Berlinale. Finally, the New York premiere of Sara Fgaier\u2019s feature debut,\u00a0Weightless<\/i>, is about an amnesiac\u2019s efforts to recover his memories of a forgotten love.<\/p>\n

Open<\/span>\u00a0Road<\/span>s: New Italian Cinema tickets will go on sale on Thursday, May 8 at noon, with an early access period for\u00a0FLC Members<\/a>\u00a0starting Tuesday, May 6 at noon. Tickets are $17; $14 for students, seniors (62+), and persons with disabilities; and $12 for\u00a0FLC Members<\/a>. See more and save with a 3+ Film Package ($15 for GP; $12 for students, seniors (62+), and persons with disabilities; and $10 for FLC Members), and an All-Access Pass for $139 ($99 for Students), excluding the\u00a0Open<\/span>ing Night film\u00a0The Time It Takes<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Co-presented by Film at Lincoln Center and Cinecitt\u00e0. Organized by Dan Sullivan of Film at Lincoln Center and by Carla Cattani, Griselda Guerrasio, Monique Catalino, and Rossella Rinaldi of Cinecitt\u00e0, Rome.<\/i><\/p>\n

Open<\/span>\u00a0Road<\/span>s is supported in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in NY and with the support of Casa Italiana Zerilli Marim\u00f2 NYU, ITA Airways, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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FILMS & DESCRIPTIONS
\n<\/u>All films will screen at the Walter Reade Theater (165 W. 65th Street).\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<\/ins>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Open<\/span>ing Night
\n<\/span><\/b>The Time It Takes \/ Il tempo che ci vuole
\n<\/span><\/b>Francesca Comencini, 2024, Italy\/France, 110m
\n<\/b>Italian with English subtitles
\n<\/b>New York Premiere<\/b><\/p>\n


\n<\/b>In this deeply personal film about her relationship with her father, legendary filmmaker Luigi Comencini, Francesca Comencini\u2019s (Stories of Love That Cannot Belong to This World<\/i>,\u00a0Open<\/span>\u00a0Road<\/span>s 2018) virtuosic work of cinematic autobiography paints a richly emotional picture of their changing bond. Young Francesca (first-time actress Anna Mangiocavallo) and her father Luigi (an astonishing Fabrizio Gifuni) live together during the Years of Lead; they share a love of cinema (Luigi is in the middle of shooting an adaptation of\u00a0Pinocchio<\/i>), but their love for one another is tested both by the passage of time and by the convulsions of this turbulent period in Italian politics. A film suffused with empathy and self-reflection,\u00a0The Time It Takes<\/i>\u00a0finds Comencini in top form, rendering the intensity and complications of the father-daughter relationship with a rare authenticity. The film earned six Donatello Award nominations, and \u200b\u200bRomana Maggiora Vergano, who plays the adult Francesca, won the Pasinetti Award for best actress at its Venice Film Festival debut. A Distrib Films release.<\/b><\/p>\n


\n<\/b>Thursday, May 29 at 7:00pm \u2013 Q&A with Fabrizio Gifuni
\n<\/b>Tuesday, June 3 at 4:00pm<\/b><\/p>\n

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<\/b>Isabella Torre, 2024, Italy, 90m
\n<\/b>English, Italian, and Danish with English subtitles
\n<\/b>North American Premiere<\/b><\/p>\n


\n<\/b>Nature seeks her revenge in Isabella Torre\u2019s hypnotic debut feature, an enigmatic and powerfully atmospheric work that might best be described as an eco-horror film. Set in Aspromonte (a massif in southern Calabria), the film begins by introducing us to the region\u2019s rugged, mist-shrouded landscape, before a mysterious figure known only as \u201cthe Irishman\u201d appears. It turns out he is involved with an illegal archaeological dig, the results of which seem to unleash a supernatural wrath on those who would disrupt the balance between the human and natural domains\u2026. A thoroughly stylish film of ideas disguised as an eerie genre exercise,\u00a0Basileia<\/i>\u00a0is an impressive and provocative debut indeed. Closing Night at 2024 Venice Days.
\nFriday, May 30 at 9:00pm<\/b><\/p>\n

Battleground \/ Campo di Battaglia
\n<\/b>Gianni Amelio, 2024, Italy, 104m
\n<\/b>Italian with English subtitles
\n<\/b>North American Premiere
\n<\/b>Open\u00a0Road<\/span>s veteran Gianni Amelio (Lord of the Ants<\/i>,\u00a0Open<\/span>\u00a0Road<\/span>s 2023) returns with this powerful parable about courage and compassion under extreme pressure. Alessandro Borghi is mesmerizing as Giulio, a doctor at a military hospital during WWI who does what he can to help wounded soldiers (and soldiers who have wounded themselves in an effort to be discharged). His foil is none other than fellow doctor Stefano (Gabriel Montesi), who is as harsh and severe with the soldiers as Giulio is accommodating and compassionate. An elegantly executed work of historical fiction,\u00a0Battleground<\/i>\u00a0is a sober and profound meditation on the toll of war. Premiered at the 2024 Venice Film Festival.
\nMonday, June 2 at 6:00pm
\n<\/b>Wednesday, June 4 at 1:30pm<\/b><\/p>\n

Canone effimero
\n<\/b>Gianluca De Serio, Massimiliano De Serio, 2024, Italy, 120m
\n<\/b>Italian with English subtitles
\n<\/b>North American Premiere
\n<\/b>In their latest documentary, which received a Special Mention from the Documentary Award jury at the 2024 Berlinale, the De Serio brothers (Una Promessa<\/i>,\u00a0Open<\/span>\u00a0Road<\/span>s 2021) pay tribute to the local musical customs of Italy\u2019s disparate regions, capturing these traditions at risk of fading away. Divided into 11 sections,\u00a0Canone effimero<\/i>\u00a0alternates between loving, languorous portraits of choir members, scholars of medieval musical theories, and specialists in arcane, mostly forgotten historical instruments, and the landscapes in which these figures undertake their cultural homage. Filming with a visual ingenuity that forms a mesmerizing counterpoint to the pleasures of listening to strange, beautiful music and of hearing experts speak intelligently about it, the De Serios honor their subjects with this meticulously, passionately assembled study of cultural traditions on the brink of vanishing.
\nFriday, May 30 at 12:00pm \u2013 Q&A with Massimiliano De Serio and Gianluca De Serio
\n<\/b>Thursday, June 5 at 3:30pm<\/b><\/p>\n

Diamonds \/ Diamanti
\n<\/b>Ferzan \u00d6zpetek, 2024, Italy, 135m
\n<\/b>Italian with English subtitles
\n<\/b>New York Premiere
\n<\/b>The great Ferzan \u00d6zpetek (Naples in Veils<\/i>,\u00a0Open<\/span>\u00a0Road<\/span>s 2018) returns to\u00a0Open<\/span>\u00a0Road<\/span>s with his latest, an absorbing, humorous, and touching tribute to the majesty of the movie costume. Luisa Ranieri and Jasmine Trinca star as Alberta and Gabriella, two sisters who preside over a Roman fashion house during the 1970s; we follow as they and the virtuoso dressmakers they employ try to fulfill a challenging order from an Oscar-winning costume designer client, setting the stage for myriad dramas both within and outside the atelier. A considerable box office hit upon its Italian release,\u00a0Diamonds<\/i>\u00a0is \u00d6zpetek at his very best, commanding a dazzling ensemble cast to achieve a rich, thoroughly entertaining love letter to screen clothes and the perseverance and talent of the women who make them. Winner of the David degli Spettatori (audience award) at the 2025 Donatello Awards. An Outsider Pictures release.
\nThursday, May 29 at 3:30pm \u2013 Q&A with Ferzan \u00d6zpetek
\n<\/b>Tuesday, June 3 at 6:30pm<\/b><\/p>\n<\/ins>\n

Familia
\n<\/b>Francesco Costabile, 2024, Italy, 120m
\n<\/b>Italian with English subtitles
\n<\/b>New York Premiere
\n<\/b>A harrowing, white-knuckle family portrait and meditation on the terrible appeal of political extremism, Francesco Costabile\u2019s (The Code of Silence<\/i>,\u00a0Open<\/span>\u00a0Road<\/span>s 2022) latest adapts Luigi Celeste\u2019s memoir\u00a0Non sar\u00e0 sempre cos\u00ec<\/i>, a staggering account of the author\u2019s falling in with a group of ultra-right-wing skinheads. Luigi (Francesco Gheghi, winner of the Orizzonti Award for best actor at the 2024 Venice Film Festival) has grown up with his mother (an excellent Barbara Ronchi) and younger brother (Marco Cicalese) in the shadow of his violently abusive and mostly absent father (Francesco Di Leva). When his father reappears on the scene, Luigi finds himself caught between the imperative to protect his family from further trauma and the fraught sense of belonging he derives from running with a gang of fascists as his \u201cchosen\u201d family.\u00a0Familia\u00a0<\/i>has been nominated for eight Donatello Awards.
\nSunday, June 1 at 8:30pm
\n<\/b>Thursday, June 5 at 8:45pm<\/b><\/p>\n

The Great Ambition \/ Berlinguer. La grande ambizione
\n<\/b>Andrea Segre, 2024, Italy\/Belgium\/Bulgaria, 123m
\n<\/b>Italian with English subtitles
\n<\/b>North American Premiere
\n<\/b>The great Elio Germano stars as Enrico Berlinguer in Andrea Segre\u2019s moving and intelligently plotted biopic, nominated for 15 Donatello Awards. The film follows Berlinguer between 1973 and 1978\u2014as the then-leader of the Italian Communist Party, Berlinguer finds himself caught by the tides of history and the political convulsions of the 1970s. Germano, who took home the award for best actor at the Rome Festival, is excellent as a man who, in scenes both spectacularly public and intimately personal, gracefully bears the weight of the world on his shoulders while trying to preserve the integrity of his convictions.
\nFriday, May 30 at 3:00pm \u2013 Q&A with Andrea Segre
\n<\/b>Thursday, June 5 at 6:00pm<\/b><\/p>\n

Luce
\n<\/b>Silvia Luzi, Luca Bellino, 2024, Italy, 95m
\n<\/b>Italian with English subtitles
\n<\/b>North American Premiere
\n<\/b>A character study pitched at the boundary between reality and dreams, Silvia Luzi and Luca Bellino\u2019s (Crater<\/i>,\u00a0Open<\/span>\u00a0Road<\/span>s 2018) new feature, which premiered at the 2024 Locarno Film Festival, is an absorbing work that explores the subjectivity of a lonely woman stifled by her environment. Marianna Fontana stars as an anonymous leatherworker in mountainous southern Italy who leads a solitary life amid harsh industrial conditions. She enlists the help of a photographer to fly a drone over a prison wall in the hopes of connecting with her incarcerated father, and this becomes the inciting incident for a mesmerizing headlong journey into a realm beyond the true and the false, the real and the imagined. Fontana is entrancing as our on-screen surrogate, and Luzi and Bellino\u2019s camera relentlessly traces the contours of her face to capture the transformation of desire into obsession.
\nSaturday, May 31 at 9:00pm \u2013 Q&A with Silvia Luzi and Luca Bellino<\/b><\/p>\n

Paternal Leave
\n<\/b>Alissa Jung, 2025, Italy\/Germany, 113m
\n<\/b>English, Italian, and German with English subtitles
\n<\/b>North American Premiere
\n<\/b>A touching story of familial reconnection, Alissa Jung\u2019s debut feature, which had its world premiere at the 2025 Berlinale, orbits around the alluring and sensitive performances of its two lead actors. Leo (Juli Grabenhenrich) is a 15-year-old girl who has grown up in Germany without ever knowing her father, Paolo (Luca Marinelli); upon learning of his identity, Leo sets out to meet Paolo, confronting him at a bar in coastal northern Italy. The experience leaves Paolo totally bewildered, but as the two spend more time together, a long overdue bond begins to take root. Marinelli is particularly moving, turning in a nuanced, dimensional performance as a father caught between the life he knows and the daughter he never had the chance to know.
\nSaturday, May 31 at 6:00pm \u2013 Q&A with Alissa Jung
\n<\/b>Wednesday, June 4 at 8:45pm<\/b><\/p>\n

Sicilian Letters \/ Iddu
\n<\/b>Antonio Piazza, Fabio Grassadonia, 2024, Italy\/France, 122m
\n<\/b>Italian with English subtitles
\n<\/b>New York Premiere
\n<\/b>In the new film by Antonio Piazza and Fabio Grassadonia (Sicilian Ghost Story<\/i>,\u00a0Open<\/span>\u00a0Road<\/span>s 2018), Matteo (Elio Germano), a fugitive mob boss in hiding, begins a curious correspondence with a former acquaintance of his father\u2019s, his godfather Catello (Toni Servillo), a corrupt politician fresh off a prison sentence. Their letters find the two men quickly re-forming their friendship, but this bond is complicated by the fact that Catello is not-so-secretly helping the police to locate and capture Matteo, plus Catello has his own agenda\u2026. Inspired by real events and fueled by magnetic performances from Germano and Servillo,\u00a0Sicilian Letters\u00a0<\/i>finds Piazza and Grassadonia once again revitalizing our sense of the Italian crime film. The film took home multiple critics\u2019 awards at its Venice Film Festival premiere.
\nFriday, May 30 at 6:00pm \u2013 Q&A with Antonio Piazza and Fabio Grassadonia
\n<\/b>Wednesday, June 4 at 6:00pm<\/b><\/p>\n<\/ins>\n

Vittoria
\n<\/b>Alessandro Cassigoli, Casey Kauffman, 2024, Italy, 83m
\n<\/b>Italian with English subtitles
\n<\/b>North American Premiere
\n<\/b>Filmmaker Alessandro Cassigoli and journalist Casey Kauffman team up for their fourth feature-length collaboration, a powerful portrait of a woman navigating the vagaries of international adoption. Hairdresser Jasmine (Marilena Amato, a non-professional actress playing a version of herself) lives in Naples with her husband and three sons; following her father\u2019s death, Jasmine has a recurring dream of a young girl running into her arms, and these dreams set in motion a quest for her to find this girl, risking her family\u2019s tenuous stability in the process. A fascinating and complex work that uses reenactment to blur the lines between fiction and documentary,\u00a0Vittoria<\/i>\u00a0is a deeply moving investigation into the maternal instinct and the psychological intricacies of adoption. The film had its world premiere in the Orizzonti Extra program at the 2024 Venice Film Festival.
\nSunday, June 1 at 6:00pm \u2013 Q&A with Alessandro Cassigoli and Casey Kauffman
\n<\/b>Tuesday, June 3 at 9:15pm<\/b><\/p>\n

Weightless \/ Sulla terra leggeri
\n<\/b>Sara Fgaier, 2024, Italy, 94m
\n<\/b>Italian and French with English subtitles
\n<\/b>New York Premiere
\n<\/b>In her debut feature, which premiered at the 2024 Locarno Film Festival, Sara Fgaier has crafted an emotionally and formally sophisticated monument to the link between cinema and memory. Ethnomusicologist Gian (Andrea Renzi) has suddenly developed amnesia; following a failed suicide attempt, his daughter Miriam (Sara Serraiocco), whom he no longer recognizes, gives him a diary he wrote in his twenties that details a love affair with a mysterious woman. A deluge of flashbacks (punctuated with striking use of archival footage) follows as Gian seeks to recover his memory of this woman while also asking himself how he could\u2019ve forgotten her in the first place. A stylish and assured debut,\u00a0Weightless<\/i>\u00a0sensitively and thoughtfully poses an agonizing question: How would it feel to forget the love of your life?
\nSunday, June 1 at 1:00pm \u2013 Q&A with Sara Fgaier
\n<\/b>Wednesday, June 4 at 4:00pm<\/b><\/p>\n

Where the Night Stands Still \/ Come la notte
\n<\/b>Liryc Dela Cruz, 2025, Italy\/Philippines, 75m
\n<\/b>Tagalog and Italian with English subtitles
\n<\/b>North American Premiere
\n<\/b>Three Filipino siblings who are all domestic workers living in Italy reunite at the villa that the eldest sister has inherited from her recently deceased boss. Not having seen each other in three years, their reunion dredges up old feelings, lingering resentments, and the melancholic distance that has formed between them in the intervening years. In his strikingly photographed black-and-white debut feature, which premiered at the 2025 Berlinale, Liryc Dela Cruz juxtaposes the pains and hopes of the siblings\u2019 bond to their almost eternal-seeming setting, the villa asserting itself as one of the film\u2019s most crucial characters, a still, well-worn witness to untold histories.
\nSunday, June 1 at 3:30pm \u2013 Q&A with Liryc Dela Cruz
\n<\/b>Tuesday, June 3 at 2:00pm<\/b><\/p>\n

Wishing on a Star
\n<\/b>Peter Kerekes, 2024, Italy\/Croatia\/Austria\/Slovakia\/Czech Republic, 99m
\n<\/b>Italian with English subtitles
\n<\/b>New York Premiere
\n<\/b>A fiction\/documentary hybrid that undertakes a charmingly idiosyncratic investigation into the present state of human connection, Peter Kerekes\u2019s\u00a0Wishing on a Star<\/i>\u00a0follows a Neapolitan astrologer and her efforts to help her clients find love. Her clients all face one domestic complication or another in pursuit of a relationship, so she advises them to set out on a trip to various locales whose astral signs might be more conducive to finding what their hearts desire. Kerekes renders the results with a nose for the absurd and (however inadvertently) profound, but also with a warmth,\u00a0open<\/span>ness, and willingness to play with the formal properties of cinema to arrive at a tender, sophisticated study of the lengths people will go for a chance at happiness. The film premiered in the Orizzonti program at the 2024 Venice Film Festival.
\nMonday, June 2 at 8:30pm<\/b><\/p>\n

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CINECITT\u00c0
\n<\/b><\/u>Cinecitt\u00e0 S.p.A. is an Italian public company whose sole shareholder is the Ministry of Economy and Finance; shareholder rights are exercised by the Ministry of Culture in agreement with the Ministry of Economy and Finance. Cinecitt\u00e0 manages legendary Cinecitt\u00e0\u2019s Studios, promoting Italian cinema in the world as member of EFP, distributing Italian first and second time feature films and documentaries. Moreover, it manages \u201cArchivio Luce\u201d film and photographic Archive, that has been registered by UNESCO in the registry \u201cMemory of the World.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information, visit\u00a0www.cinecitta.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER
\n<\/b><\/u>Film at Lincoln Center (FLC) is a nonprofit organization that celebrates cinema as an essential art form and fosters a vibrant home for film culture to thrive. FLC presents premier film festivals, retrospectives, new releases, and restorations year-round in state-of-the-art theaters at New York\u2019s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. FLC offers audiences the opportunity to discover works from established and emerging directors from around the world with a passionate community of film lovers at marquee events including the New York Film Festival and New Directors\/New Films.<\/p>\n

Founded in 1969, FLC is committed to preserving the excitement of the theatrical experience for all audiences, advancing high-quality film journalism through the publication of\u00a0Film Comment<\/i>, cultivating the next generation of film industry professionals through our FLC Academies, and enriching the lives of all who engage with our programs.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9Courtesy of Film at Lincoln Center, The Sicilian Letters, The Time it Takes, Diamonds, The Battlefield, Where the Night Stands Still FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER AND CINECITT\u00c0 \u00a0ANNOUNCE THE 24th EDITION OF OPEN\u00a0ROADS: NEW ITALIAN CINEMA, MAY 29\u2013JUNE 5 14 features including the New York premiere of\u00a0Opening Night film, Francesca Comencini\u2019s\u00a0The Time It Takes, with…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[26866,26872,26878,26876,26867,149,26877,26875,2149,26868,26870,26874,26869,26871,26873],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nFLC and Cinecitt\u00e0 Announce the 24th Edition of Open Roads: New Italian Cinema, May 29 - June 5<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Open Roads : 14 features including the New York premiere of\u00a0Opening Night film, Francesca Comencini\u2019s\u00a0The Time It Takes.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=29686\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FLC and Cinecitt\u00e0 Announce the 24th Edition of Open Roads: New Italian Cinema, May 29 - 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