Alba Rohrwacher

Sworn Virgin (2015), performed in Albanian and Italian, gives Rohrwacher a quietly demanding central role in a story about freedom, social rules and a changing sense of self. The Wonders (2014), directed by her sister Alice, is another useful stop in a career closely connected to contemporary Italian filmmaking. Watch her physical adjustments and the way she listens. She can make a character's uncertainty visible before it is put into words.