Cinema Italian Style 2025
November 12-16 | SIFF Cinema Uptown, Seattle
November 12–16, 2025
Festival Schedule | Partners & Sponsors
Cinema Italian Style features some of the best Italian films. Entering its 17th year, the festival will take place November 12–16, 2025 at SIFF Cinema Uptown.
PASSES: Adult: $99 | Student: $50 - plus $6 service fees
TICKETS: $14 + $2 service fee | Opening Night Movie + Party: $25 + $2 service fee
Every ticket you buy directly funds the next years of Cinema Italian Style, ensuring the festival continues to grow and thrive.
Be one of the first 50 pass purchasers and get a Buy One Get One free pizza at Tutta Bella!
Passes include admission to all Cinema Italian Style screenings, plus admission to the Opening Night party after the film on November 12 at 9:00pm at the KEXP Gathering Space, including appetizers, complimentary drink tickets and live music by The Space Noodles. The Consul General of Italy will be in attendance at opening night.
This year's festival is presented by the Cinema Italian Style Organization Committee: Seattle Perugia Sister City Association, Il Punto Seattle, University of Washington Department of French and Italian Studies, Istituto Italiano di Cultura San Francisco
Cinema Italian Style: The Tasters (Le assaggiatrici)
Italy | 2025 | 123 min. | Silvio Soldini
November 12, 2025
A gripping historical drama inspired by the incredible true story of Margot Wölk, a woman who was conscripted to be one of Hitler’s food tasters.
Cinema Italian Style: Familia
Italy | 2024 | 120 min. | Francesco Costabile
November 13, 2025
A harrowing, white-knuckle family portrait and meditation on the terrible appeal of political extremism.
Cinema Italian Style: Paternal Leave
Germany | 2025 | 113 min. | Alissa Jung
November 13, 2025
Torn between longing and anger, 15-year-old Leo travels to the coast of northern Italy to meet her biological father. The two are complete strangers to each other. They struggle to find truth, affinity, love and the courage to face themselves.
Cinema Italian Style: Siblings (La vita da grandi)
Italy | 2025 | 95 min. | Greta Scarano
November 14, 2025
Siblings is a charming comedy-drama about various diagnoses, the courage required to see the world with open eyes, and how it is never too late to get to know your own sibling.
Cinema Italian Style: Madly (Follemente)
Italy | 2025 | 98 min. | Paolo Genovese
November 14, 2025
And you thought your internal monologue was hectic! As Piero and Lara embark upon their first date, an ensemble of game performers act out their competing thoughts and emotions, Inside Out/”Herman’s Head”-style, in the latest from Paolo Genovese (Perfect Strangers).
Cinema Italian Style: Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t (Come ti muovi sbagli)
Italy | 2025 | 97 min. | Gianni Di Gregorio
November 15, 2025
A retired professor’s peaceful life – with a good pension, friends, and a companion – is disrupted when his daughter and two unruly children arrive.
Cinema Italian Style: The Best Reward (La cosa migliore)
Italy | 2024 | 97 min. | Federico Ferrone
November 15, 2025
Mattia is a teenager from small-town Italy. Tormented by guilt over his brother’s death, he drops out of school, starts to work at a local factory, and converts to Islam. Will he avoid the trap of isolation and violence?
Cinema Italian Style: La Grazia
Italy | 2025 | 131 min. | Paolo Sorrentino
November 15, 2025
Oscar winner Paolo Sorrentino returns to the baroque world of Italian presidential politics, crafting an elegantly restrained portrait of a fictional ruler (Toni Servillo).
Cinema Italian Style: I Married You For Joy (Ti ho sposato per allegria) (New 4K Restoration)
Italy | 1967 | 102 min. | Luciano Salce
November 16, 2025
Pietro is a young bourgeois lawyer who married Giuliana, a wild pretty girl he met at an artists’ party. Despite the premises, everything between the two seems to be going well, until his mother’s visit... New 4K restoration from Cinecittà.
Cinema Italian Style: Heads or Tails? (Testa o croce?)
Italy | 2025 | 116 min. | Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis
November 16, 2025
John C. Reilly plays a troubadour-style Buffalo Bill Cody in this cheerfully deranged genre riff from The Tale of King Crab directors Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis.
Cinema Italian Style: Napoli-New York
Italy | 2024 | 124 min. | Gabriele Salvatores
November 16, 2025
The tale of two Neapolitan kids who embark on a ship to New York to escape Italy’s early postwar poverty.
