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Film director Marco Bellocchio on Edgardo Mortara, a ‘baptised’ Jewish boy taken from his family, and scandal that weakened power of pope

I meet the director of a new film about a six-year-old snatched from his family – after he’d been baptised by the family maid

Returning for a third year this weekend, the Italian Film Festival boasts a wide range of excellent films that will be showing in Cork, says CARA ...

True story of child stolen from his home by Papal authorities in 1800s Italy

True story of child stolen from his home by Papal authorities in 1800s Italy

24/01/2024 - Co-written with Francesca Archibugi, Maria Sole Tognazzi’s new movie takes a sensitive and understanding approach to tell the tale of a woman’s existential crisis and subsequent journey of rebirth

Directed by the esteemed Italian provocateur Marco Bellocchio, the drama takes its heated inspiration from a notorious real-life incident of antisemitism.

Italian screens return to showcase of New Italian Cinema in Mumbai

04/12/2023 - With this sentimental thriller, Manfredi Lucibello employs a claustrophobic and virtuosic direction for an extraordinary one-woman show by Barbara Ronchi

Cannes diary 2023: Kidnapped is a film that you’ll bawl at least once and feel enraged for the rest of it