The persistent vibrancy of Italian cinema, despite increasing financing difficulties, is undisputable if you look at the range of the country’s current output and what’s percolating in the pipeline.

Italian writer-turned-director Ludovica Rampoldi’s clandestine romance “A Brief Affair” — which features a stellar local cast including Pilar Fogliati (“Madly”) Adriano Giannini (“Supersex”) and ...

Fellini, Visconti, Sorrentino, Benigni... Italian directors have left their mark on the history of cinema over the decades, ...