ST. ALi Italian Film Festival 2025

The ST. ALi Italian Film Festival presented by Palace returns to Palace Nova, with contemporary drama, comedy, documentaries and much more. Join us on an adventurous cinematic escape to la bella Italia!

ST. ALi Italian Film Festival and the Bonfire Horror Club presents: All Colours of the Dark R18
"A head-trippy, surreal and unique giallo flick.” - HorrorThriller
ST. ALi Italian Film Festival and the Bonfire Horror Club presents: Blood and Black Lace MA15
“Bava creates a claustrophobic paranoia that seeps into the fabric of the movie and the viewer.” - BBC
2025 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival - Napoli Event M
Palace Nova Cinemas is proud to present the stunning and bittersweet new film Napoli - New York. Ticketholders receive a Solbevi Limoncello Spritz to enjoy.
ST. ALi Italian Film Festival and the Bonfire Horror Club presents: A Lizard in a Woman's Skin R18
"Colourful and wild, with orgies, LSD freakouts and painting-by-knife-throwing. The visuals are Fulci's most impressive.” - Screen Slate
2025 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival - Closing Night Event M
Say 'Arrivederci' to the Italian Film Festival with a drink on arrival and a special 25th anniversary presentation of the all-star Australian classic coming-of-age drama Looking For Alibrandi, presented in a brand new restoration.
IFF25 The Negotiator E18+ From: Sep 17, 2025
Inspired by real events, The Negotiator is a dramatic spy thriller starring Claudio Santamaria and Sonia Bergamasco that delivers a profound reflection on the meaning of
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IFF25 Gianni Versace - Emperor of Dreams PG From: Sep 17, 2025
In this clever biopic intertwining fiction and documentary, director Mimmo Calopresti tells the story of fashion designer Gianni Versace, from his youth in Reggio Calabri
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IFF25 Fuori M From: Sep 17, 2025
Rome, 1980. Unable to get her novel The Art of Joy published, author Goliarda Sapienza finds herself briefly imprisoned after she steals some jewellery from a wealthy fri
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IFF25 Diva Futura E18+ From: Sep 17, 2025
In 1980s-1990s Italy, Riccardo Schicchi's agency Diva Futura revolutionises mass culture by turning free love into porn, making stars of Ilona Staller, Moana Pozzi and ot
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IFF25 Diamonds M From: Sep 17, 2025
A director calls all his favourite actresses to film a movie set in Rome in the 70s that tells the vicissitudes revolving around a prestigious tailoring.
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IFF25 Battleground M From: Sep 17, 2025
In this powerful story of courage and compassion from Gianni Amelio, two military doctors work at a clinic in Northern Italy in the final year of WWI as the devastating S
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IFF25 The Life Apart E18+ From: Sep 17, 2025
Based on the acclaimed novel by Mariapia Veladiano, this enthralling and music-imbued drama set in beautiful Italian art city Vicenza follows a wealthy family whose daugh
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IFF25 Looking for Alibrandi M From: Sep 17, 2025
Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, all-star Australian classic coming-of-age drama Looking For Alibrandi is presented in a brand new 4K restoration.
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IFF25 A Lizard in a Woman's Skin R18 From: Sep 17, 2025
Following a woman haunted by lucid dreams tied to a murder, Lucio Fulci’s surreal giallo blends psychedelic visuals and an Ennio Morricone score to create a truly unique
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IFF25 When Mum Is Away... With the In-laws PG From: Sep 17, 2025
The adventures of the Rovelli family continue as they head to Puglia in this hit family comedy from Alessandro Genovesi, starring Fabio De Luigi and Valentina Lodovini.
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IFF25 Weightless E18+ From: Sep 17, 2025
In her debut feature, director and cowriter Sara Fgaier delivers a sensitive and thoughtful drama about the power of memory, love and how to find someone you have lost.
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IFF25 Vittoria E18+ From: Sep 17, 2025
A hairdresser from Naples with three loving sons and a devoted husband risks everything to pursue her dream of having a daughter, in this deeply moving drama based on tru
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IFF25 The Time It Takes E18+ From: Sep 17, 2025
A deeply felt story of filmmaker Francesca Comencini’s time with her father, this personal tale pays homage to and reflects on her bond with her father Luigi Comencini as
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IFF25 The Tasters M From: Sep 17, 2025
From multi award-winning writer/director Silvio Soldini and adapted from Rosella Postorino’s bestselling novel At The Wolf’s Table, this is a gripping historical drama in
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IFF25 Hold Tight, Missy! Isabella Ducrot Unlimited PG From: Sep 17, 2025
A documentary following 90-year-old Isabella Ducrot for two years, an artist who is sought after by leading galleries the world over, after devoting herself to art at the
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IFF25 The Mountain Bride - Vermiglio M From: Sep 17, 2025
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2024 Venice Film Festival, The Mountain Bride – Vermiglio is an atmospheric, visually breathtaking portrait of a family caught betwe
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IFF25 The Illusion E18+ From: Sep 17, 2025
1860. Young idealists from all regions of Italy join Giuseppe Garibaldi (Tommaso Ragno) in Quarto, near Genoa, for the adventure of the “Mille.” With his faithful group o
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IFF25 The Great Ambition E18+ From: Sep 17, 2025
Awarded Best Actor at the David di Donatello Awards, Elio Germano delivers a standout performance as Enrico Berlinguer in this meticulous biopic that follows the former l
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IFF25 The Boy with Pink Trousers M From: Sep 17, 2025
A box office sensation in Italy, this moving drama featuring rising star Samuele Carrino, explores the real story behind Italy’s first publicised case of online bullying
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IFF25 Somebody to Love M From: Sep 17, 2025
After the global success of Perfect Strangers, writer/director Paolo Genovese’s record-breaking hit Somebody to Love is a hilarious, all-star romantic comedy that reveals
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IFF25 Signorinella: Little Miss PG From: Sep 17, 2025
Celebrating the tenacity and spirit of Italian women who helped shape the Italian-Australian community and cooked a few plates of pasta along the way, this stellar docume
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IFF25 Sicilian Letters M From: Sep 17, 2025
Toni Servillo and Elio Germano star in this story of dangerous liaisons set in early 2000s Sicily, during Cosa Nostra boss Matteo Messina Denaro’s three decades as a fugi
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IFF25 Siblings E18+ From: Sep 17, 2025
When a woman returns to her hometown to help her family, her autistic brother enlists her help in becoming independent and chasing his dream of becoming a singer in this
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IFF25 Napoli - New York M From: Sep 17, 2025
Festival favourite Pierfrancesco Favino supports a stellar cast in this migrant story from Academy Award winner Gabriele Salvatores that follows two Neapolitan kids as th
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IFF25 My Place Is Here E18+ From: Sep 17, 2025
In the aftermath of WWII, in a rural village in the South of Italy, a single mother befriends the local wedding planner and begins to understand her rights as a woman in
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IFF25 My Daughter M From: Sep 17, 2025
Ivano de Matteo's compelling drama stars Stefano Accorsi as a widowed father whose 16-year-old like any other commits a serious crime, testing his ability to forgive.
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IFF25 La Grazia M From: Sep 17, 2025
Oscar-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino’s highly anticipated new drama La Grazia (“Grace”), direct from its world premiere at Venice.
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