Cinema Italian Style returns to SIFF Cinema Uptown November 7-14 to celebrate the best in Italian cinema with a broad selection of 15 films to celebrate its 16th year. Tickets for the festival, a celebration of the best Italian films of the year, are on sale now.
“Cinema Italian Style is one of SIFF’s most beloved annual events, and we’re so grateful for the partners and patrons that return year after year for this celebration of Italian cinema” says SIFF’s Associate Director of Festival Programming, Stan Shields, “this year’s lineup of films is captivating, heartbreaking, funny, inspiring, and we can’t wait to bring them to our Seattle audiences.”
The 2024 lineup includes Venice Film Festival Grand Jury prize winner and Italy’s Official 2025 Academy Awards® Submission for International Feature, Vermiglio; Rome Film Festival’s Best Actress Award Winner Alba Rohrwacher in In the Mirror; a new 4k restoration of Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1957 politically trenchant film Il Grido; and more from the best of Italian’s filmmakers.
Passes for the event are on sale for $100 for SIFF members and $125 for non-members. Tickets for individual in-person screenings and select virtual screenings are $9 for SIFF members and $14 for non-members.
FULL SCHEDULE:
SIFF Cinema Uptown: Nov. 7-14
There’s Still Tomorrow: 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.
(Italy, 2023, 118 min., Paola Cortellesi)
Thursday, November 7 @ 6:30 PM - Opening Night Party to follow at KEXP Gathering Space at 8:30 PM
What A Life!: A light, gentle comedy about a pair of likable losers who never lose heart. The first film directed by actor Giuseppe Battiston, inspired by Gustave Flaubert’s unfinished novel “Bouvard and Pécuchet.”
(Italy, 2023, 104 min., Gustave Flaubert)
Friday, November 8 @ 5:30 PM
Mascarpone - The Rainbow Cake: 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.
(Italy, 2024, 105 min., Alessandro Guida)
Friday, November 8 @ 8:00 PM
Family Matters: 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.
(Italy, 2024, 103 min., Simone Godano)
Saturday, November 9 @ 1:00 PM
My Place Is Here: 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.
(Italy, 2024, 110 min., Daniela Porto, Cristiano Bortone)
Saturday, November 9 @ 3:45 PM
The Life Apart: 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.
(Italy, 2024, 114 min., Marco Tullio Giordana)
Saturday, November 9 @ 7:00 PM
Il Grido: 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.
(Italy, 1957, 116 min., Michelangelo Antonioni)
Sunday, November 10 @ 1:00 PM
The War Machine: The formidable Pierfrancesco Favino delivers a powerhouse performance in gripping maritime thriller The War Machine, set in the beginning of the Second World War.
(Italy, 2023, 120 min., Edoardo de Angelis)
Sunday, November 10 @ 3:45 PM
My Killer Buddy: 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.
(Italy, 2023, 100 min., Gianluca Santoni)
Sunday, November 10 @ 6:30 PM
Patagonia: 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.
(Italy, 2023, 94 min., Simone Bozzelli)
Monday, November 11 @ 6:30 PM
A Dark Story: 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.
(Italy, 2024, 100 min., Leonardo D’Agostini)
Tuesday, November 12 @ 5:30 PM
Misericordia: 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.
(Italy, 2023, 95 min., Emma Dante)
Tuesday, November 12 @ 8:00 PM
In the Mirror: 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.
(Italy, 2023, 83 min., Roberta Torre)
Wednesday, November 13 @ 5:30 PM
Trust: 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.
(Italy, 2024, 136 min., Daniele Luchetti)
Wednesday, November 13 @ 7:30 PM
Vermiglio: 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, 2024, 119 min., Maura Delpero)
Thursday, November 14 @ 6:30 PM