Alice Rohrwacher Movies

Just out of jail, rumpled English archaeologist Arthur reconnects with his wayward crew of tombaroli accomplices – a happy-go-lucky collective...

As if in a dream, a young girl recounts the story of Orpheus and Eurydice and the questions raised by the myth. Heartsick from suffering, Orpheus...

A farming community gathers on a plateau on the border of three regions for the funeral of traditional agriculture. It’s a film to ward off the...

During WWII, in the days leading up to Christmas, a woman arrives at an Italian Catholic boarding school for orphaned girls with a large cake and a...

After growing up in Switzerland, 13-year-old Marta returns to a city in southern Italy with her mother and older sister. Independent and inquisitive,...

A transfixing, rarely-seen 16mm miniature made as part of Rohrwacher's opera production of La traviata in 2016.

The ninth short film of the Miu Miu’s Women’s Tales series reflects Alice Rohrwacher’s attention to the surreal world of...

In 1982, Wim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema, resulting in the film Room 666. Now, 40 years later, in...

In the Tuscan countryside, a family of traditional honey farmers struggles to make ends meet. The household consists of only daughters—four of...

In the absence of any physical connection, this short explores alternative forms of contact among neighbors by making use of an old 16mm camera, a...

The Istituto Luce turned ninety in 2014, its decades-long history intertwined with that of Italy itself, through cinema and that unique treasure...

A ballet dancer is late for an audition for a show inspired by Plato's Allegory of the Cave. She arrives with her seven-year-old son, Jay, and begs...

A portrait of Italy observed through the eyes of teenagers who talk about the places they live in and imagine themselves, torn between the...

A young circus performer spends five solitary days carting a horse across the wintry Hungarian landscape in this Neorealist documentary short.

From a Calabrian river to a night in Catania where stray dogs roam the city aimlessly: between these two extremes "full of emptiness" is built...

This documentary portrait of a traveling circus family—populated with performing kids, dogs, and chickens—seems to situate us squarely in...

Book translators, as director Pier Paolo Giarolo observes, have a lot in common with musicians and bakers: “[They] have to master not only a...