Italian

Bonjour Switzerland

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After a crazy public referendum designates French as Switzerland's sole official language, a German-speaking civil servant is charged with travelling across the country by train to infiltrate a resistance movement bent on preserving the nation's linguistic diversity. This slapstick comedy satirizes government bureaucracy while celebrating Switzerland's diverse and interconnected cultural landscape.

Portrait of a Certain Orient

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Fleeing conflict in their homeland, siblings Emilie and Emir depart Lebanon for Brazil, first by ship crossing the Mediterranean and Atlantic and then river boat up the Amazon. Fellow passenger Omar catches Emilie’s eye and, as the two fall madly in love, Emir grows obsessively jealous. Based on a novel by Milton Hatoum, this period migration drama explores themes of memory, belonging, difference, and understanding with subtlety and finesse.

Small Body

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Italy, 1900. After delivering a stillborn baby, grief-stricken Agata is worried her child’s soul will be condemned to an eternity in Limbo. When she learns of a remote sanctuary where miracles are performed, she sets out on a perilous journey through forests, over seas, and up mountains in this sublime, spiritual parable of healing and redemption.

Primavera

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Early 1700s. Venice. At the Ospedale della Pietà orphanage young violinist Cecilia is awakened to the power of her musical gift with the arrival of a zealous new composer, Antonio Vivaldi.
Shown in black and white, a massive mountain sits in the middle of a sprawling city. Sun streams through the clouds.

Below the Clouds

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From the Oscar-nominated director of Fire at Sea comes an immersive and impressionistic portrait of communities living in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius.
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