"I try to capture reality, nothing else"

Celebrating the 80th anniversary of Rome, Open City, we’re living through the essential works of legendary Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini. A pioneer who forged new kind of realist cinema from the ruins of the Second World War, his films are of the everyday, the working class and the poverty-stricken, realised with mostly non-professional casts, melodramatic flare and a patience for life as it truly is.

Featuring his groundbreaking War Trilogy, iconic collaborations with his then-wife Ingrid Bergman and a handful of rarely screened gems, this series reaches the director’s highest points in the Golden Age of Italian cinema.