Cinema Italian Style
SIFF's annual celebration of Italian film.
November 7–14, 2024
Festival Schedule | Festival Trailer
Cinema Italian Style features some of the best Italian films. Entering its 16th year, the festival will take place November 7–14, 2024 at SIFF Cinema Uptown. Join us for una settimana di straordinari film italiani.
PASSES: SIFF Members: $100 | Non-Members: $125
Be one of the first 150 pass purchasers and get one free 13” pizza from Tutta Bella!
Passes include admission to all Cinema Italian Style screenings, plus admission to the Opening Night party after the film on November 7 at the KEXP Gathering Space, including light appetizers and two complimentary drink tickets.
Cinema Italian Style: There's Still Tomorrow
Italy | 2023 | 118 min. | Paola Cortellesi
November 7, 2024
The highest grossing film of 2023 in Italy, There's Still Tomorrow is a vibrant, moving drama starring Paola Cortellesi (Like a Cat on a Highway) in her directorial debut.
Cinema Italian Style: What A Life!
Italy | 2023 | 104 min. | Giuseppe Battiston
November 8, 2024
A light, gentle comedy about a pair of likeable losers who never lose heart. The first film directed by actor Giuseppe Battiston, inspired by Gustave Flaubert’s unfinished novel “Bouvard and Pécuchet.”
Cinema Italian Style: Mascarpone - The Rainbow Cake
Italy | 2024 | 105 min. | Alessandro Guida
November 8, 2024
After three years, Antonio and Luca are reunited. Antonio, a successful pastry chef, still has feelings for Luca, who is now engaged to Tancredi. With a sexy cast, a beautiful story, and intoxicating bakery goods, Mascarpone - The Rainbow Cake delivers the goods.
Cinema Italian Style: Family Matters
Italy | 2024 | 103 min. | Simone Godano
November 9, 2024
Featuring an all-star cast led by Riccardo Scamarcio, this ensemble drama - deftly directed with comedic touches - explores the relationships in an extended and dysfunctional family who are all gathering for the first time.
Cinema Italian Style: My Place Is Here
Italy | 2024 | 110 min. | Daniela Porto, Cristiano Bortone
November 9, 2024
Set in the aftermath of WWII in a rural village in the South of Italy, a single mother befriends the local gay “wedding planner,” is introduced to the hidden community of gays, and starts understanding her rights as a woman.
Cinema Italian Style: The Life Apart
Italy | 2024 | 114 min. | Marco Tullio Giordana
November 9, 2024
The “Best of Youth” director Marco Tullio Giordana finds the music in the moving tale of a piano prodigy who plays her way out of her mother’s shadow.
Cinema Italian Style: Il Grido
Italy | 1957 | 116 min. | Michelangelo Antonioni
November 10, 2024
Deserted by the mother of his child, a factory worker wanders through the gray landscape of the Po Valley in search of solace and meaning. Startlingly bleak, Antonioni’s rare departure from exploring affluent society is among his most politically trenchant films. New 4K restoration from Janus Films.
Cinema Italian Style: The War Machine
Italy | 2023 | 120 min. | Edoardo de Angelis
November 10, 2024
The formidable Pierfrancesco Favino delivers a powerhouse performance in gripping maritime thriller The War Machine, set in the beginning of the Second World War.
Cinema Italian Style: My Killer Buddy
Italy | 2023 | 100 min. | Gianluca Santoni
November 10, 2024
In this buddy movie at child height, young Denni is on a mission: to save his mother from his father's violence. But he cannot do it alone, so he engages the skills of a “super-killer,” who only looks like a criminal...and is in desperate need of money.
Cinema Italian Style: Patagonia
Italy | 2023 | 112 min. | Simone Bozzelli
November 11, 2024
Twenty-year-old Yuri lives with his elderly aunt in the rural countryside. At a birthday party he meets Agostino, a wandering children's entertainer, who promises him the independence Yuri didn't know he was striving for. Director Simone Bozzelli scheduled to attend.
Cinema Italian Style: A Dark Story
Italy | 2024 | 100 min. | Leonardo D’Agostini
November 12, 2024
Directed and co-written by Leonardo d'Agostini (The Champion) in his second feature film, A Dark Story is an enthralling thriller that seamlessly blends elements of film noir, legal drama and investigative mystery.
Cinema Italian Style: Misericordia
Italy | 2023 | 95 min. | Emma Dante
November 12, 2024
Three Italian sex workers care for a vulnerable man in Emma Dante’s allegorical third feature, exploring the theme of motherhood, and creating a poignant homage to women and to their capacity for love and resilience.
Cinema Italian Style: In the Mirror
Italy | 2023 | 83 min. | Roberta Torre
November 13, 2024
Alba Rohrwacher (Happy as Lazzaro, La chimera) delivers a transformative performance in this immersive, compelling new drama and elegant homage to Monica Vitti from director/co-writer Roberta Torre.
Cinema Italian Style: Trust
Italy | 2024 | 136 min. | Daniele Luchetti
November 13, 2024
Daniele Luchetti’s highly anticipated and star-studded new film—part psychological thriller and part relationship saga—follows a stormy love affair and a web of secrets, set to a moody soundtrack by Thom Yorke of Radiohead. Golden Globe Italy 2024 (Best Actor, Screenplay).
Cinema Italian Style: Vermiglio
Italy | 2024 | 119 min. | Maura Delpero
November 14, 2024
Towards the end of the Second World War, in a high, remote mountain village in the Italian Alps, the arrival of a refugee soldier alters the dynamics of the place forever. Italy’s Official 2025 Academy Awards® Submission (Best International Feature).
