Galatea Bellugi

Writer-director Carolina Cavalli's darkly comic feature debut is a deliciously satirical character study of a twentysomething looking for purpose... and also a friend. It's Amanda's first summer back in Italy after studying in Paris, and it soon becomes clear that her peculiar and intense personality has rendered her friendless.

A thoughtful story about belief follows a top journalist, recruited by the Vatican to investigate a young woman’s reported vision of the Virgin Mary.

After discovering his dark side, a teen's life is upended by an encounter with his superpowered biological mother and the mysterious Natasha.

Starring Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel as 1880s gourmands, this sensuous film is aromatic with romance and bathed in buttery luminosity. Adding the delights of cooking to the pleasures of cinema in a delectable mélange, Trần Anh Hùng won Best Director at Cannes for this belle époque treat.