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Vittoria Scarpa


1915 articles available in total starting from 01/03/2007. Last article published on 27/06/2025.

Guido Chiesa • Director of For the Love of a Woman

Interview: Guido Chiesa • Director of For the Love of a Woman

“This woman who doesn’t know anything about her past is a bit like us, who don’t know anything about that particular world”

We chatted with the director about his latest film, which is strikingly different from his usual works over recent years, being set in Israel, shot in English and starring an international cast  

28/03 | Bif&st 2025

Alessandro Piva • Director of Cradle Siblings

Interview: Alessandro Piva • Director of Cradle Siblings

“In Italy, a significant number of people were raised in residential institutions, a phenomenon which shouldn’t be relegated to just a handful of news articles”

We met with the director to talk about abandoned children, female emancipation and the search for one’s roots, themes which are central to his documentary about the former Bari orphanage  

27/03 | Bif&st 2025

Silvio Soldini • Director of The Tasters

Interview: Silvio Soldini • Director of The Tasters

“This type of violence and oppression doesn’t belong to the past, we see it every day, it’s scary”

We talked to the Italian director about his new film, inspired by the story of Hitler’s last taster, and about the fact that it could be set in the near future  

25/03 | Bif&st 2025

Review: Close to Me

Review: Close to Me

The new film by Stefano Sardo, set during the 2020 lockdown, starts like a romantic comedy and becomes increasingly effervescent as its plot gets more complicated  

19/03 | Films | Reviews | Italy/Serbia

Review: La città proibita

Review: La città proibita

In his new film that mixes together kung fu, drama, love and comedy, Gabriele Mainetti creates a melting pot of tones, genres and situations, in the image of the Roman neighbourhood in which it is set  

12/03 | Films | Reviews | Italy

The new Bif&st places the pride of the Mediterranean centre stage

The new Bif&st places the pride of the Mediterranean centre stage

The 16th edition of the Bari International Film&Tv Festival will unspool in the Apulian capital between 22 and 29 March under the new artistic direction of Oscar larussi  

11/03 | Bif&st 2025

Series review: The Art of Joy

Series review: The Art of Joy

The gripping series directed by Valeria Golino arrives on Sky, an adaptation of the scabrous posthumous book by Goliarda Sapienza about a young orphan willing to do anything to be happy  

27/02 | Italy/UK

Review: Amiche Mai

Review: Amiche Mai

Italian director Maurizio Nichetti returns to directing a film for the big screen after 23 years of absence, and finds everything very changed  

26/02 | Films | Reviews | Italy/Slovenia

Review: Madly

Review: Madly

Paolo Genovese’s brilliant new comedy focuses on a first date between a man and a woman, and all the voices which live in their brains, caught between embarrassment and laughter  

19/02 | Films | Reviews | Italy

Review: Tornando a Est

Review: Tornando a Est

Antonio Pisu reunites with his trio of characters in Eastern Europe, this time after the fall of the Berlin wall, in a spy comedy that delicately balances lightness and reflection  

12/02 | Films | Reviews | Italy

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