Italian film calendar

New Year's Day — 1 January is the date the title names.

Christmas/New Year holiday television scheduling on Rai.

Capodanno / New Year's Day holiday viewing.

Christmas/New Year holiday television scheduling for fairy-tale fiction.

Christmas–New Year school-holiday television rerun slot.

Epiphany/Befana holiday period around 6 January.

Epiphany (6 January), when Italian television and viewers turn to Magi-themed films.

Epiphany (6 January), the Befana holiday in Italy.

Epiphany / la Befana, 6 January.

Death of Fratel Biagio Conte, Palermo lay missionary, 12 January 2023.

Giorno della Memoria (Holocaust remembrance, 27 January).

Giorno della Memoria (Italy's Holocaust remembrance day).

Giorno della Memoria (Italian Holocaust remembrance day), when it is regularly rebroadcast and taught.

Giorno della Memoria (Italian Holocaust remembrance day, with Rai broadcasts in that slot).

Giorno della Memoria (Italian Holocaust remembrance day).

Giorno della Memoria (Holocaust Remembrance Day).

Giorno della Memoria (Holocaust Remembrance Day), marked in Italy on 27 January with related programming.

Giorno della Memoria, Italy's Holocaust remembrance day.

Giorno della Memoria (liberation of Auschwitz).

Giorno della Memoria (Italian Holocaust remembrance day).

Giorno della Memoria, Italy's Holocaust remembrance day.

Giorno della Memoria, Italy's Holocaust remembrance day on 27 January.

Giorno della Memoria (27 January), marked in Italy with Holocaust-remembrance programming and annual Rai reruns of this title.

Giorno della Memoria, Italy's Holocaust remembrance day.

Giorno della Memoria (27 January), and the Italian television programming around it.

Feast day of St John Bosco, 31 January (anniversary of his death).

Feast day of St John Bosco, 31 January, marked by Salesian schools and parishes across Italy.

Anniversary of Monica Vitti's death, 2 February 2022 — her only film as director and her last.

Anniversary of playwright Ugo Betti's birth, 4 February 1892.

Giornata nazionale contro il bullismo e il cyberbullismo (7 February), when the film is screened in Italian schools.

Liturgical feast day of St Josephine Bakhita, 8 February (also the annual day of prayer against human trafficking).

Giorno del ricordo, 10 February (annual Rai programming around it).

Giorno del Ricordo, Italy's day of remembrance for the foibe and the Istrian-Dalmatian exodus.

Giorno del Ricordo, Italy's national remembrance day (10 February), which drives attention to Italian films set in wartime Venezia Giulia/Friuli.

Giorno del ricordo, Italy's national day of remembrance (10 February).

Anniversary of Marco Pantani's death, 14 February 2004.

Execution of Giordano Bruno in Campo de' Fiori, 17 February 1600; annually commemorated in Rome.

Feast day of Saint Margaret of Cortona, 22 February.

Feast day of San Gabriele dell'Addolorata (27 February), widely marked in Abruzzo at the Isola del Gran Sasso shrine.

Festa della donna / International Women's Day, 8 March.

Festa della donna (International Women's Day, 8 March).

Annual Mak π 100 ceremony marked in Italian military academies.

Anniversary of the My Lai massacre, 16 March 1968.

Feast of San Giuseppe, 19 March (also Italian Father's Day).

Giornata della memoria e dell'impegno in ricordo delle vittime innocenti delle mafie (21 March), which commemorates don Giuseppe Diana, killed 19 March 1994.

Anniversary of the Fosse Ardeatine massacre, 24 March 1944.

Anniversary of the Fosse Ardeatine massacre, 24 March 1944.

Dantedì, Italy's national day for Dante, marked every 25 March.

Anniversary of its Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 30th Academy Awards, 26 March 1958.

Birthday of Giacomo Casanova, born in Venice 2 April 1725.

Television programming around 25 April, Festa della Liberazione.

Festa della Liberazione, Italy's Resistance anniversary.

Anniversary of the Portuguese Carnation Revolution, 25 April 1974 (a date Italy also marks as the Liberazione).

Festa della Liberazione — Italy's Resistance commemoration on 25 April.

Festa della Liberazione — Italian Resistance commemoration.

Festa della Liberazione, 25 April — Liberation Day commemoration and associated TV programming.

Festa della Liberazione, Italy's Resistance anniversary.

Festa della Liberazione, Italy's Resistance commemoration on 25 April.

Festa della Liberazione, Italy's annual Resistance commemoration on 25 April.

Festa della Liberazione, 25 April — the film is invoked in the annual polemics around it.

Festa della Liberazione, Italy's Liberation Day — annual commemoration of the Resistance, which this film is bound to.

Festa della Liberazione, Italy's Liberation Day.

Festa della Liberazione, 25 April — the Resistance commemoration.

Festa della Liberazione (25 April), when Italian Resistance-era films are broadcast and looked up.

Festa della Liberazione (25 April), when Fascist-era propaganda cinema — including Rossellini's films made under the regime — draws renewed attention.

Festa della Liberazione, Italy's Liberation Day marking the end of Nazi-Fascist occupation in 1945.

Festa della Liberazione, Italy's 25 April Liberation Day, when Resistance-era films are aired and looked up.

Festa della Liberazione, Italy's antifascist Liberation Day.

Festa della Liberazione, 25 April 1945.

Festa della Liberazione (Italian Liberation Day), the annual commemoration of the Resistance.

Festa della Liberazione, Italy's Liberation Day.

Festa della Liberazione (Liberation Day), 25 April.

Festa della Liberazione, Italy's Resistance anniversary.

Festa della Liberazione, Italy's Liberation Day.

Festa della Liberazione, Italy's Liberation Day.

Festa della Liberazione (25 April), when Italians look up WWII/Resistance-era national figures.

Festa della Liberazione, the civic day marking the end of Nazi-Fascist occupation, when WWII resistance-era figures are commemorated.

Festa della Liberazione, Italy's Resistance commemoration on 25 April.

Festa della Liberazione (25 April), Italy's Resistance/Liberation Day.

Festa della Liberazione, Italy's Resistance commemoration.

Festa dei Lavoratori (1 May), Italy's labour day and its trade-union commemorations.

Portella della Ginestra massacre, 1 May 1947 (marked each Labour Day).

Festa dei Lavoratori (1 May), when Italian workers'-rights and workplace-safety titles are surfaced.

Superga air disaster, 4 May 1949 — annual commemoration of the Grande Torino.

9 May 1978, Aldo Moro's death; also Italy's Giorno della memoria delle vittime del terrorismo.

Anniversary of Aldo Moro's death, 9 May 1978 — also Italy's Giorno della memoria delle vittime del terrorismo.

Killing of Peppino Impastato, 9 May 1978 (also Italy's Day of Remembrance for victims of terrorism).

Feast of Our Lady of Fátima, anniversary of the 13 May 1917 apparition.

Annual Canale 5 season finale, broadcast in mid-late May.

Feast day of Saint Rita of Cascia, 22 May.

Feast day of Saint Rita of Cascia, 22 May.

Anniversary of the Capaci bombing and the killing of Giovanni Falcone, 23 May 1992.

Anniversary of the Capaci bombing that killed Giovanni Falcone, marked annually in Italy.

Anniversary of the Capaci bombing that killed Giovanni Falcone, 23 May 1992.

Anniversary of the Capaci bombing, 23 May 1992.

Anniversary of the Capaci bombing (23 May 1992) and Italy's national day of remembrance for mafia victims/legality, when Falcone and Borsellino are commemorated together.

Feast day of St Philip Neri, 26 May.

Feast day of San Filippo Neri, 26 May.

Anniversary of the Heysel Stadium disaster, 29 May 1985.

Festa della Repubblica — anniversary of the 2 June 1946 institutional referendum, to which the film is bound.

Festa della Repubblica, Italy's national day (2 June) — patriotic Risorgimento title looked up around the national holiday.

Anniversary of the death of Pope John XXIII, 3 June 1963.

Death of Enrico Berlinguer, 11 June 1984.

Death of Alfredino Rampi, 13 June 1981.

Feast day of Sant'Antonio di Padova, 13 June.

Feast day of Saint Anthony of Padua, 13 June.

Anniversary of the Italy–West Germany World Cup semifinal, 17 June 1970.

End of the Italian school year and the maturità exam period in mid-late June.

Start of the Italian maturità exams in mid-June.

Start of the maturità exams in mid-June.

Eve of the Italian maturità written exams in mid/late June.

Nicole Kidman's birthday (20 June 1967) — this is her early Italian-film credit.

Anniversary of the Ustica disaster (Itavia Flight 870), 27 June 1980.

Palio di Siena run on 2 July each year.

Palio di Siena (Palio di Provenzano), run every 2 July.

Feast day of Maria Goretti, 6 July (anniversary of her death in 1902).

Feast day of St Maria Goretti, 6 July (died 6 July 1902).

Feast of St Benedict, 11 July, patron of Europe and of the Montecassino abbey.

Anniversary of the killing of Giorgio Ambrosoli, 11 July 1979.

Anniversary of Federico Aldrovandi's birth (17 July), marked yearly by his family and supporters.

Anniversary of the via D'Amelio bombing (19 July 1992) — lookups build on the eve.

Mid-July anti-mafia commemoration period in Italy (eve of the 19 July Via d'Amelio anniversary).

Anniversary of the via D'Amelio bombing that killed Paolo Borsellino, commemorated annually in Italy.

Anniversary of the Via d'Amelio bombing, 19 July 1992 — the annual anti-mafia commemoration that pairs Falcone and Borsellino.

Anniversary of the via d'Amelio bombing, 19 July 1992, commemorated together with the 1992 anti-mafia massacres.

Anniversary of the Via d'Amelio bombing that killed Paolo Borsellino and his police escort.

Antimafia remembrance on the via D'Amelio bombing anniversary (Paolo Borsellino, 19 July 1992).

Killing of Carlo Giuliani during the Genoa G8, 20 July 2001.

Anniversary of the Diaz school raid during the Genoa G8, night of 21 July 2001.

25 July: fall of Mussolini in 1943, marked every year by the "Pastasciutta Antifascista" at the Casa Cervi and by ANPI sections nationwide.

Death of Rita Atria, 26 July 1992.

Italian summer beach-holiday season (early August, run-up to Ferragosto).

Birth anniversary of Mata Hari (Margaretha Zelle), 7 August 1876.

Anniversary of the Via Poma murder of Simonetta Cesaroni, Rome, 7 August 1990.

Anniversary of the Bois du Cazier mine disaster at Marcinelle, which killed many Italian migrant miners.

Anniversary of Franca Valeri's death, 9 August 2020.

Murder of Ruggero Pascoli, 10 August 1867 — the date bound to Giovanni Pascoli's "X Agosto" / "La cavallina storna", recited in Italian schools.

Notte di San Lorenzo, 10 August — the feast day and night of shooting stars named in the title.

Summer holiday / Ferragosto-period television viewing.

Ferragosto summer-holiday period viewing.

Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre anniversary and commemoration, 12 August 1944.

Ferragosto / mid-August Italian holiday season.

Mid-August holiday season around Ferragosto.

Ferragosto / mid-August summer holiday period.

Ferragosto holiday exodus (14–15 August).

Ferragosto summer-holiday period (15 August), when Italian TV and viewers turn to seaside vacation comedies.

Ferragosto, the 15 August Italian beach holiday.

Ferragosto, the Italian mid-August holiday.

Ferragosto, the Italian summer holiday peak.

Ferragosto, the 15 August Italian summer holiday, which the title names.

Ferragosto, the 15 August Italian summer holiday.

Ferragosto / peak summer-holiday viewing.

Ferragosto holiday television scheduling of classic Totò comedies.

Ferragosto — the Feast of the Assumption, 15 August, named in the title.

Ferragosto, Italy's 15 August holiday.

Ferragosto, the peak of the Italian seaside holiday season.

Ferragosto, the 15 August Italian summer holiday.

Ferragosto, the 15 August national holiday.

Ferragosto holiday viewing of classic Italian comedies.

Ferragosto / Italian summer seaside holiday season.

Ferragosto/mid-August summer holiday viewing season.

Palio dell'Assunta in Siena, run every 16 August.

Ferragosto summer-holiday viewing period.

Palio di Siena dell'Assunta, run every 16 August.

Ferragosto / peak Italian summer-holiday period.

Ferragosto / peak summer-holiday viewing period.

Liturgical feast of Saint Pius X, 21 August.

Peak Italian seaside summer-holiday period after Ferragosto.

Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, 23 August 1927.

Feast day of St Augustine of Hippo, 28 August.

End-of-summer holiday television, the late-August beach-season slot.

Assassination of Carlo Alberto dalla Chiesa in Palermo, 3 September 1982.

Assassination of Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, 3 September 1982 in Palermo.

Venice Film Festival premiere and Golden Lion win, early September 2013 — and the festival's recurring early-September slot.

Anniversary of the 8 September 1943 armistice announcement.

Anniversary of the 11 September 2001 attacks.

Feast of San Gennaro in Naples (19 September), the saint named in the title.

Sophia Loren's birthday, 20 September 1934.

Sophia Loren's birthday (born 20 September 1934) — the role she won her Oscar for.

Birthday of its star Sophia Loren, born 20 September 1934.

Anniversary of the mafia killing of judge Rosario Livatino, 21 September 1990.

Killing of judge Rosario Livatino, 21 September 1990.

Assassination of judge Rosario Livatino, 21 September 1990.

Murder of Giancarlo Siani, 23 September 1985.

Feast day of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, anniversary of his death.

Feast day of Padre Pio, 23 September, anniversary of his death in 1968.

Anniversary of Salvo D'Acquisto's death at Torre di Palidoro, 23 September 1943, commemorated annually by the Carabinieri.

Anniversary of Salvo D'Acquisto's death at Torre di Palidoro, 23 September 1943, commemorated annually by the Carabinieri.

Anniversary of the death of Federico Aldrovandi, 25 September 2005.

Death of Anna Magnani, 26 September 1973.

Anniversary of the Naples uprising of 27–30 September 1943.

Feast day of San Michele Arcangelo (29 September), which the title shares.

Birthday anniversary of Eleonora Duse (born 3 October 1858), the film's star.

Feast of St Francis of Assisi, patron saint of Italy (4 October).

Feast of St Francis of Assisi, patron saint of Italy (4 October).

Feast of St Francis, patron saint of Italy, 4 October.

Feast of St Francis of Assisi, patron saint of Italy (4 October).

Liturgical feast day of St John XXIII, 11 October — fixed on the anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council.

Anniversary of Gigi Meroni's death, 15 October 1967.

Anniversary of the 16 October 1943 Nazi roundup of the Rome ghetto.

Birthday of Klaus Kinski, born 18 October 1926.

Halloween / Ognissanti horror-viewing season.

Anniversary of Pier Paolo Pasolini's killing at Ostia, night of 1–2 November 1975.

Anniversary of Pier Paolo Pasolini's murder at Ostia, night of 1–2 November 1975.

Birth anniversary of Monica Vitti, 3 November 1931.

4 November, Giorno dell'Unità Nazionale e delle Forze Armate and anniversary of the Milite Ignoto entombment (1921).

Anniversary of the Nassiriya attack, 12 November 2003.

Nassiriya bombing of 12 November 2003, marked annually as Italy's day of remembrance for the fallen in international peace missions.

Anniversary of director Vittorio De Sica's death, 13 November 1974.

Birth anniversary of Gesualdo Bufalino, author of the source novel (born 15 November 1920).

Irpinia earthquake anniversary, 23 November 1980.

Giornata internazionale per l'eliminazione della violenza contro le donne (25 November).

Giornata internazionale contro la violenza sulle donne, 25 November.

Giornata internazionale contro la violenza sulle donne, 25 November.

Killing of Leonardo Vitale, 2 December 1984.

Start of the Christmas viewing season in Italy.

Feast of Saint Barbara, 4 December — title-name collision with the saint's day.

Start of the Italian Christmas viewing season in early December.

Sant'Ambrogio, Milan's patron-saint feast and civic holiday.

Immacolata (8 December), the start of the Italian Christmas season and its holiday-film viewing.

Anniversary of the Golpe Borghese, attempted coup of the night of 7–8 December 1970.

Italian Christmas-season TV scheduling, which kicks off right after the 8 December Immacolata holiday.

Christmas-season viewing in early December.

Feast of Santa Lucia, 13 December — title shares the name of the saint's day widely marked in Italy.

16 December liquefaction of San Gennaro's blood in Naples, marking the 1631 Vesuvius eruption.

Jane Austen's birthday, marked annually by readers of her adaptations.

Christmas-period viewing and Christmas television scheduling.

Christmas-period television scheduling in Italy.

Christmas-period viewing of Italian Christmas comedies.

Christmas-period television scheduling of Massimo Troisi's films.

Christmas Eve viewing season.

Christmas Eve television scheduling.

Christmas holiday television scheduling in Italy.

Christmas Eve television scheduling of Italian holiday-season comedies.

Christmas Eve — cinepanettone viewing during the Italian Christmas season.

Christmas Eve holiday viewing.

Christmas Eve seasonal viewing.

Annual Italia 1 Christmas Eve broadcast, a fixed slot since the late 1990s.

Christmas Eve holiday television scheduling.

Christmas Day viewing and Christmas-period television scheduling.

Christmas holiday viewing and television scheduling.

Christmas Day viewing of Christmas-themed titles.

Christmas Day viewing and holiday TV scheduling.

Italian Christmas-period film viewing and Christmas Day TV scheduling.

Christmas television scheduling.

Christmas Day television scheduling.

Christmas Day viewing and holiday TV scheduling of Christmas-titled Italian comedies.

Christmas Day viewing and Christmas television scheduling.

Christmas Day viewing — Italian Christmas-season comedy shown on TV every 25 December.

Christmas Day viewing and Italian Christmas television scheduling.

Christmas holiday family television scheduling in Italy.

Christmas-season viewing and holiday TV scheduling (cinepanettone tradition).

Christmas Day viewing of the cinepanettone holiday-comedy slot.

Christmas — cinepanettone watched and broadcast around 25 December.

Christmas Day viewing of Italian "cinepanettone"-style holiday comedies.

Christmas Day itself — the title makes it a seasonal lookup.

Christmas Day — cinepanettone viewing and holiday TV scheduling.

Christmas — cinepanettone viewing and Christmas Day TV scheduling.

Christmas — cinepanettone watched and broadcast at Christmas.

Christmas — annual Italian Christmas viewing and holiday TV scheduling.

Christmas-holiday television scheduling of Totò comedies.

Christmas Day television scheduling of Italian commedia reruns.

Christmas season viewing and holiday television scheduling.

Christmas Day — the film is the archetype of Italy's "cinepanettone" holiday viewing, reliably rerun and referenced at Christmas.

Christmas Day television scheduling of the "cinepanettone" holiday comedies.

Christmas Day viewing of the cinepanettone series.

Christmas holiday viewing and festive TV scheduling of the "cinepanettone" series.

Christmas holiday viewing of the cinepanettone.

Christmas-period Italian television scheduling (Santo Stefano holiday rerun slot).

Christmas-holiday television scheduling — the Santo Stefano rerun slot.

Christmas-holiday television scheduling in Italy (Santo Stefano slot).

Christmas–Santo Stefano holiday television scheduling in Italy, where the Fantaghirò series is a fixture.

Christmas-holiday television scheduling; the series is a fixture of Italian Santo Stefano/Christmas-week programming.

Christmas/Santo Stefano holiday television viewing.

Christmas-period (Santo Stefano) television scheduling of classic Italian films.

Christmas holiday viewing — Santo Stefano cinepanettone slot.

Christmas-holiday (Santo Stefano) television scheduling of Eduardo De Filippo works.

Christmas-holiday television scheduling — Santo Stefano slot for Italian holiday comedies.

Santo Stefano holiday television scheduling — Bud Spencer comedies are a fixture of Italian Christmas-period reruns.

Christmas-week television scheduling of Italian comedy classics.

Christmas-holiday television scheduling in Italy (post-Natale slot).

Christmas-week television scheduling of holiday-themed Italian comedies.

Christmas-holiday television scheduling (Bava fantasy TV films in the Mediaset Christmas-week slot).

Italian Christmas-holiday television scheduling (late-December comedy slot).

Christmas-holiday television scheduling of Italian Christmas comedies.

Execution of the Cervi brothers, 28 December 1943, Reggio Emilia.

Christmas-holiday television scheduling of Pieraccioni's December comedies.

Christmas holiday period viewing and TV scheduling of cinepanettoni.

Christmas-holiday viewing season.

Christmas-holiday television scheduling — annual festive-season rerun.

Christmas-period Italian TV scheduling (holiday rerun slot).

Rai holiday-period scheduling of De Filippo adaptations between Christmas and New Year.

Christmas-holiday family-film television scheduling.

Christmas/New Year holiday television scheduling.

Christmas–New Year holiday television scheduling in Italy.

New Year's Eve (Capodanno), the night named in the title.

New Year's Eve (San Silvestro) viewing and scheduling.