Futura

Pietro Marcello was born in Caserta. He studied painting at the Naples Academy of Fine Arts. Its film Crossing the Line premiered at the Venice Film Festival's Orizzonti section in 2007, and won many accolades. In 2009 he made the feature film The Wolf's Mouth, that went on to win the 27th Torino Film Festival, the Caligari Award and the Teddy Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2011 he directed The Silence of Pelešjan, screened as a special event at the 68th Venice Film Festival. In 2015 he made Lost and Beautiful, screened at the Locarno Film Festival. In 2019 he made Martin Eden, his first feature film, based on the same-titled novel by Jack London. The film won many awards, including the Volpi Cup for Best Actor (Luca Marinelli) at the Venice Film Festival and the Platform Prize at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. In 2021 he made For Lucio, a documentary film premiered at the 71st Berlin Film Festival's Berlinale Special section.

2021 – FOR LUCIO, OT: PER LUCIO

2019 – MARTIN EDEN, OT: MARTIN EDEN

2015 – LOST AND BEAUTIFUL, OT: BELLA E PERDUTA

2014 – L’UMILE ITALIA (short), OT: L’UMILE ITALIA (short)

2011 – THE SILENCE OF PELESJAN, OT: IL SILENZIO DI PELEŠJAN

2009 – THE MOUTH OF THE WOLF, OT: LA BOCCA DEL LUPO

2007 – CROSSING THE LINE, OT: IL PASSAGGIO DELLA LINEA

 

Born in Rome, he graduated with a degree in Political Sciences in 1995 and took a diploma in Film Directing from Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in 1998. Saimir, his first feature film, won the "Luigi De Laurentiis" Award for a Debut Film at the 2004 Venice Film Festival. The Rest of the Night, his second feature film, premiered in Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight in 2008, and was subsequently invited to many more festivals around the world. Black Souls, his third feature and an Italian-French production by Rai Cinema, was released in 2014 and premiered at the 71st Venice Film Festival. In 2017 he co-directed The Miracle, an TV series produced by Wildside for Arte and Sky.

She was born in Fiesole, in the Tuscany region. She graduated with a degree in Classic Literature from Torino University, and wrote for theater and worked as a musician before approaching filmmaking, initially as a documentary editor. Her first feature, Corpo Celeste, premiered in Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight in 2011, and was then selected for Sundance and several more festivals around the world. Rohrwacher’s second feature, The Wonders, won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2014 Cannes Film. In 2015 she directed De Djess, a short film commissioned by Prada as part of Miu Miu’s Women’s Tales film series that premiered during New York Fashion Week and was also presented at the Venice Film Festival. In 2016 she directed her first opera, a new version of La Traviata for Teatri di Reggio Emilia. Happy as Lazzaro, her third feature film, won the Best Screenplay Award at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.