More than most national cinemas, Italian film is dominated by its ghosts — Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini (whose work is currently being featured in a Pacific Film Archive retrospective), Michelangelo Antonioni, and the list goes on. The occasional sensation aside (Life is Beautiful, The Best of Youth), we don't receive much word of contemporary Italian cinema on these shores except for a busy week programmed by the San Francisco Film Institute in conjunction with the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco and New Italian Cinema Events of Florence, Italy. This year's New Italian Cinema series features a three-film tribute to director Francesca Comencini, an early look at Francesca Archibugi's coming-of-age film, Flying Lessons, and many other works by emerging Italian filmmakers.