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Vittoria Scarpa


1920 articles available in total starting from 01/03/2007. Last article published on 17/07/2025.

Adila Bendimerad, Damien Ounouri • Directors of The Last Queen

Interview: Adila Bendimerad, Damien Ounouri • Directors of The Last Queen

"It's a story that the Algerians have never seen before and which they need in order to dig deep into their history and culture"

VENISE 2022: The directing duo straddles reality and legend as it retraces a historical event from 16th-century Algeria from Queen Zaphira's perspective  

06/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: The Last Queen

Review: The Last Queen

VENICE 2022: Duo Adila Bendimerad and Damien Ounouri make their feature film debut with a movie looking back on an historic event in 16th century Algeria from a female perspective  

05/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Georgia Oakley • Director of Blue Jean

Interview: Georgia Oakley • Director of Blue Jean

"I wanted to create something that was inspired by the classics from the time, rather than a film that alluded to the 1980s"

VENICE 2022: In her first feature, the British director tells the story of those who were forced to conceal the fact that they were gay in homophobic, Thatcher-era England  

04/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Sébastien Lifshitz • Director of Casa Susanna

Interview: Sébastien Lifshitz • Director of Casa Susanna

"For so many years, these people have been invisible; now we need to build this history of the queer culture"

VENICE 2022: The French director talks about his new documentary, dedicated to what used to be a refuge for the first-ever clandestine network of cross-dressers  

04/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Christian Carmosino Mereu • Director of Land of Upright People

Interview: Christian Carmosino Mereu • Director of Land of Upright People

"This kind of impassioned involvement in politics took me back to my childhood years"

VENICE 2022: The Italian helmer chats about his documentary, which he shot in Burkina Faso from the 2014 revolution up until the most recent political developments  

04/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Isabel Achával, Chiara Bondì • Directors of Las leonas

Interview: Isabel Achával, Chiara Bondì • Directors of Las leonas

"Through football, these women feel like they are worth something, like they are the protagonists of their own lives"

VENICE 2022: The directors discuss their Nanni Moretti-produced documentary, which follows a group of South American immigrants in Rome brought together by their passion for football  

04/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Abel Ferrara • Director of Padre Pio

Interview: Abel Ferrara • Director of Padre Pio

"This is all happening in a small town where everyone knows everybody and everyone knows what's going on"

VENICE 2022: We chatted to the US director about his new film, dedicated to the life of Saint Pius of Pietrelcina, which features a visceral performance by Shia LaBeouf  

03/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: Blue Jean

Review: Blue Jean

VENICE 2022: The feature debut by the UK’s Georgia Oakley tells of the difficulties of being gay in Thatcher’s Britain through the story of a teacher forced to conceal her identity  

03/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Giulia Amati • Director of Kristos, The Last Child

Interview: Giulia Amati • Director of Kristos, The Last Child

"It was important to try to use this story as a parable and give as little historical context as possible"

VENICE 2022: In the French-Italian director's documentary, Kristos is the last remaining child on a tiny Greek island and has to decide what to make of his future  

03/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Jafar Najafi • Director of Alone

Interview: Jafar Najafi • Director of Alone

"Children should be living in a joyful, colourful world; they shouldn't be growing up too fast"

VENICE 2022: The Iranian director talks about his documentary that centres on a child who fights with all his might to stop his sisters from getting married too young  

03/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

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