Alice Rohrwacher Movies

Everyone has their own Chimera, something they try to achieve but never manage to find. For Arthur, the Chimera looks like the woman he lost,...

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

Purehearted teen Lazzaro is content living as a sharecropper in rural Italy, but an unlikely friendship with the marquise’s son will change his...

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...

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

Sisters Clothilde, Ophile, and Bettine live in seclusion by the sea. However, their relationship begins to crumble when a man named Paris falls in...

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,...

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...

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

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 baron scales a tree after a dispute with his father and remains there for the rest of his life.

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...

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