La Stazione, released in 1990, marked the directorial debut of the much-loved actor and writer Sergio Rubini and was produced by Fandango, run by the then young producer Domenico Procacci. Thirty-five years after its release, La Stazione, restored by Cinecittà, remains a landmark film of the New Italian Cinema, which in the early 1990s saw the emergence of a different sensibility, a renewed ability to combine strong auteurism with emotion, and to transform seemingly narrow contexts into universal stories. A film that, upon its release, was immediately recognised as something new, honoured with Italy’s top awards – the Nastro d’Argento, the David di Donatello, the Globo d’Oro, the Grolla d’Oro, Ciak d’Oro, and at the 47th Venice International Film Festival, the Kodak – Cinecritica and the FIPRESCI Prize – and in which we can now see a clear watershed: an Italian cinema more aware of its own capabilities set out anew from La Stazione.