Nuovo Cinema Italiano Film Festival

Nuovo Cinema Italiano Film Festival Celebrating Italian contemporary film and culture

The Nuovo Cinema Italiano Film Festival was established in 2006 in Charleston, S.C., a cultural center of the southeastern United States and home to Spoleto Festival USA. The Nuovo Cinema Italiano Film Festival strives to inform and entertain by presenting important new works of Italian cinema and casting a critical eye on Italian culture. Our mission is to showcase the best in contemporary Italia

n cinema, giving filmmakers an opportunity to shine and audiences a chance to see past the familiar sites and into the heart of Italy.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS 🤩✨VENTI ANNI DI NUOVO CINEMA 📣
04/29/2026

MARK YOUR CALENDARS 🤩✨
VENTI ANNI DI NUOVO CINEMA 📣

🌟 GRAZIE MILLE AMICI 🌟We kicked off our first event of our 20th Anniversary Year with Il Cinema Ritrovato 🍾 + partneri...
03/16/2026

🌟 GRAZIE MILLE AMICI 🌟
We kicked off our first event of our 20th Anniversary Year with Il Cinema Ritrovato 🍾 + partnering with us at was a wonderful beginning to a special time for Nuovo Cinema 🎞️ and immense Grazie to providing wonderful focaccia sandwiches and snacks 🤩 for for providing special live music 🎶 and all of our sponsors and guests 🫶

WE WILL SEE YOU ALL IN NOVEMBER FOR NUOVO CINEMA 20 ANNI🇮🇹🌟😍

TODAY 🤩 We’ll see you this evening for our Cinema Ritrovato, partnered with and kick off our 20th Anniversary Year 🎉 Do...
03/14/2026

TODAY 🤩 We’ll see you this evening for our Cinema Ritrovato, partnered with and kick off our 20th Anniversary Year 🎉
Doors at 4:30pm.
🎞️ “Riso Amaro” begins at 5:00pm followed by a performance of Mondine’s Work and intermission reception.
🎞️ “Miracle in Milan” begins at 7:30pm.

🌟TOMORROW🌟 Join us for our annual celebration of Classic Italian Cinema, vocal performance, and refreshments! 🇮🇹 Tickets...
03/13/2026

🌟TOMORROW🌟 Join us for our annual celebration of Classic Italian Cinema, vocal performance, and refreshments! 🇮🇹 Tickets in our bio 😎

🌟 Emma Gramatica 🌟 Known most for her role as Lolotta in “Miracle in Milan,” Emma’s style was that of a naturalistic app...
03/12/2026

🌟 Emma Gramatica 🌟 Known most for her role as Lolotta in “Miracle in Milan,” Emma’s style was that of a naturalistic approach with her acting career mostly portraying older women. While MIM is her most popular performance, her first film was with Vittorio De Sica in “Naples of Former Days,” where the two first met. Before the movie screen, Emma read original and popular prose writings on the radio, typically saluted for her way of speaking. Her sister, Irma Gramatica, was also an actress, presenting the chance for the two to work together in which they depicted Spinster sisters in “The Materassi Sisters,” (1944). While her acting career only spanned 30 or so years, her style gave way to many types of day-in-the-life acting where actors negate the inflation of big and grandiose performance and take on the challenge of being an every-day person.

Come see Emma Gramatica’s talents this Saturday, March 14th at Queen St. Playhouse! Doors at 4:30pm. Tickets available on bio. 🎞️🌟

We are only 🌟 5 DAYS AWAY 🌟 from our annual Il Cinema Ritrovato 🇮🇹 partnered with , we are bringing influential Italian...
03/10/2026

We are only 🌟 5 DAYS AWAY 🌟 from our annual Il Cinema Ritrovato 🇮🇹 partnered with , we are bringing influential Italian Cinema to Charleston for an evening of music, culture, and community. Join us this Saturday, March 14th at Queen St. Playhouse to experience two incredible retro Italian films, a performance from , and reception to ring in NCIFF’s 20th Anniversary 🤩
Tickets in Bio 🎞️

Vittorio De Sica was born and raised in Napoli on 1901, taking up a job as an office clerk in order to care for his fami...
03/08/2026

Vittorio De Sica was born and raised in Napoli on 1901, taking up a job as an office clerk in order to care for his family while only a teenager. During those years, he joined a stage company, quickly becoming a main face on the Italian screen after only a few years within the company. In 1940, at 39 years old, De Sica turned away from the screen and began to create behind it, picking up directing and creating comedies. His film, “The Children Are Watching Us,” (1943) was truly the debut that revealed the expanses he could cross in terms of story telling and vision for his work. He went on to create the Italian classic and Oscar Winner, “Bicycle Thieves” in 1948, diving into topics of post-war poverty. He went on to create and win Oscars for “Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow,” and “The Garden of the Finzi-Continis,” (1970) before his passing in 1974. “Miracle in Milan” remains one of his most popular films globally as it takes his serious storytelling and mixes the almost child-like imagination and hope of a sort of divine interference and change.

Join us for Il Cinema Ritrovato on March 14th at Queen St. Playhouse!

Giuseppe de Santis was born in Fondi, Lazio but spent much of his time in Rome when his family relocated for work. De Sa...
03/08/2026

Giuseppe de Santis was born in Fondi, Lazio but spent much of his time in Rome when his family relocated for work. De Santis is claimed to be influenced heavily by his friend and poet, Libero de Libero who was his main introduction into the visual arts and discipline of an artist servicing a culture. He went on to study at Centre Sperimentale dí Cinematografia in Rome in which he found a passion for the neorealism genre of writing and anti-Fascist scholarship and activism, which is the dominant theme in his creations. His first film, “Giorgio di Gloria” was a documentary, encapsulated and capturing the anti-Fascist movement in Italy during the time of Mussolini. “Caccia Tragica,” or “Tragic Hunt,” was his biggest hit as it solidified de Santis as a neorealist master of film. “Riso Amaro” as his third significant film earned him the Academy Nomination for Best Original Story and was just the beginning to his success.

Join us for Il Cinema Ritrovato on March 14th at Queen St. Playhouse!

🌟Il Cinema Ritrovato is almost here 🌟 Purchase your tickets for our showings + performance at the link in our bio 🇮🇹 ...
03/06/2026

🌟Il Cinema Ritrovato is almost here 🌟 Purchase your tickets for our showings + performance at the link in our bio 🇮🇹

Buon Marzo amori! 🤩🌸 our annual Il Cinema Ritrovato is only two weeks away! Make sure to grab your tickets for our scree...
03/02/2026

Buon Marzo amori! 🤩🌸 our annual Il Cinema Ritrovato is only two weeks away! Make sure to grab your tickets for our screenings and come and enjoy classic Italian Cinema! 🌟 An intermission and reception between showing will be entertained by !!

Andiamo amici, and join us on the 14th! 🫶🇮🇹

Il Cinema Ritrovato brings a special addition to this year’s festival 🌟Partnering with College of Charleston Chorus, we ...
02/28/2026

Il Cinema Ritrovato brings a special addition to this year’s festival 🌟

Partnering with College of Charleston Chorus, we will have a live performance of original Mondine songs! 🤩

Come celebrate and enjoy retro Italian cinema and wonderful music and reception on March 14th @ Queen St. Playhouse🇮🇹

Vocalists: Emma Brennan, Bella Tallada, Lila Schneider, Hastings Smith
Pianist: Lorna Barker

Photographic moments in cinema 🛎️
11/15/2025

Photographic moments in cinema 🛎️

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