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 a retrospective honouring one of Italy’s greatest filmmakers. Join us on an adventurous cinematic escape to la bella Italia!

ST. ALi Italian Film Festival 2025 - Prosecco Preview Event CTC
Enjoy a glass of prosecco on arrival and a special preview of the 2025 Italian Film Festival with the Australian premiere of Award-winning filmmaker Ferzan Özpetek's DIAMONDS.
2025 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival - Opening Night Gala CTC
Ciao Adelaide! Join us for the opening night gala and after-party for 2025 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival. Enjoy a drink and food on arrival, music and much more. That's not all! We will be hosting a post-film after party. Chin chin!
2025 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival - Filmmaker's Q&A CTC
As a special treat, we are proud to present a special post-film Filmmaker's Q&A session of Signorinella: Little Miss with the director and special guests.
2025 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival - Centrepiece Event CTC
Enjoy a prosecco and the Australian premiere of Oscar-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino's highly anticipated new drama La Grazia, direct from its world premiere at Venice.
2025 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival - Napoli Event CTC
Palace Nova Cinemas is proud to present the stunning and bittersweet new film Napoli - New York. Ticketholders receive a Solbevi Limoncello Spritz to enjoy.
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 Time It Takes CTC From: Aug 8, 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 Gianni Versace - Emperor of Dreams CTC From: Aug 8, 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 CTC From: Aug 8, 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 CTC From: Aug 8, 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 CTC From: Aug 8, 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 CTC From: Aug 8, 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 CTC From: Aug 8, 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 The House with Laughing Windows MA15 From: Aug 8, 2025
Renowned for its slow-burn suspense and shocking finale, Pupi Avati’s eerie giallo follows an art restorer uncovering dark village secrets in a haunting Italian horror cl
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IFF25 Looking for Alibrandi M From: Aug 8, 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 Deep Red R18+ From: Aug 8, 2025
Widely regarded as one of Dario Argento’s greatest films, Deep Red screens in a stunning new 4K restoration, showcasing a film that remains a cornerstone of Italian horro
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IFF25 All the Colours of the Dark R18 From: Aug 8, 2025
Sergio Martino’s surreal film follows a traumatised woman who is drawn into the occult. Starring Edwige Fenech and featuring a Bruno Nicolai score, it’s a hypnotic, nightmarish classic that still packs a punch.
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IFF25 Blood & Black Lace MA15 From: Aug 8, 2025
Mario Bava’s founding giallo classic follows a masked killer stalking fashion models. Renowned for vivid colour, stylish visuals, and shocking violence, it pioneered the modern slasher aesthetic.
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IFF25 A Lizard in a Woman's Skin R18 From: Aug 8, 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 experience.
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IFF25 When Mum Is Away... With the In-laws CTC From: Aug 8, 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 CTC From: Aug 8, 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 CTC From: Aug 8, 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 Hold Tight, Missy! Isabella Ducrot Unlimited CTC From: Aug 8, 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 age of 55.
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IFF25 The Tasters CTC From: Aug 8, 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 inspired by the incredible true story of Margot Wölk, a woman who was conscripted to be
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IFF25 The Negotiator CTC From: Aug 8, 2025
Inspired by true events that remain powerfully resonant 20 years on, this dramatic thriller stars Claudio Santamaria as Nicola Calipari, deputy director of operations of the Italian secret service who sacrificed his life to save journalist Giuliana Sgrena
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IFF25 The Mountain Bride - Vermiglio CTC From: Aug 8, 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 between tradition and modernity in the final year of WWII.
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IFF25 The Illusion CTC From: Aug 8, 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 CTC From: Aug 8, 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 leader of the Italian Communist Party between 1973 and 1978.
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IFF25 The Boy with Pink Trousers CTC From: Aug 8, 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 that led to tragic results.
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IFF25 Somebody to Love CTC From: Aug 8, 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 the innermost thoughts and uncertainties of a contemporary Italian couple on their a
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IFF25 Signorinella: Little Miss CTC From: Aug 8, 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 documentary from the team behind LYGON ST - Si Parla Italiano is narrated by Italian-Austra
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IFF25 Sicilian Letters CTC From: Aug 8, 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 fugitive from Italian justice.
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IFF25 Siblings CTC From: Aug 8, 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 fun dramedy from Greta Scarano.
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IFF25 Napoli - New York CTC From: Aug 8, 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 they journey from Naples to New York in 1949.
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IFF25 My Place Is Here CTC From: Aug 8, 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 this thoughtful drama starring Ludovica Martino and Marco Leonardi (Cinema Paradiso),
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IFF25 My Daughter CTC From: Aug 8, 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 CTC From: Aug 8, 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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