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Vittoria Scarpa


1925 articles available in total starting from 01/03/2007. Last article published on 30/07/2025.

Review: My Birthday

Review: My Birthday

Christian Filippi’s moving debut speaks of the disillusionment of a young man in a foster home who dreams of living with his mother but who is forced to face reality  

27/01 | Trieste 2025

Edgardo Pistone • Director of Ciao bambino

Interview: Edgardo Pistone • Director of Ciao bambino

“Adults are the biggest adversaries of freedom because they don’t let adolescents enjoy being carefree”

We sat down with the Neapolitan director to discuss harmful inheritance, impossible love and non-places  

23/01 | /Italy

Series review: Public Disorder (A.C.A.B.)

Series review: Public Disorder (A.C.A.B.)

13 years after A.C.A.B. – All Cops Are Bastards, the series directed by Michele Alhaique focuses on riot police officers’ inner conflict and the line between legitimate and illegitimate use of force  

15/01 | Series | Reviews | Italy

Italians made their return to cinemas in 2024, with 493 million euros taken at the box office and 70 million tickets sold

Italians made their return to cinemas in 2024, with 493 million euros taken at the box office and 70 million tickets sold

Data on the Italian film market’s performance over the past year has now been presented, with results on a par with 2023 and in line with pre-Covid levels  

10/01 | Box Office | Italy

Lorenzo Pullega gathers stories from around the Reno river in The Rhine Gold

Lorenzo Pullega gathers stories from around the Reno river in The Rhine Gold

Produced by Pier Giorgio Bellocchio and the Manetti bros., the Italian director’s first feature film is scheduled to world premiere in the Big Screen Competition at the IFFR  

19/12/2024 | Production | Funding | Italy

Review: Diamanti

Review: Diamanti

Ferzan Ozpetek deploys a star cast in his dazzling film set in a dressmaker’s for film and theatre, where the fates of its female employees interweave while fulfilling an important order  

18/12/2024 | Films | Reviews | Italy

Gianluca Matarrese documents a doctor’s ethical dilemmas in GEN_

Gianluca Matarrese documents a doctor’s ethical dilemmas in GEN_

Exploring the desire to have a child and to assert one’s gender identity, the Italian director’s new movie will screen in Sundance’s World Cinema Documentary competition  

13/12/2024 | Production | Funding | Italy/France/Switzerland

The final Italian clapperboard slams in Turin on Sergio Castro San Martín’s Il Cileno

The final Italian clapperboard slams in Turin on Sergio Castro San Martín’s Il Cileno

The Chilean director’s movie starring Camilo Arancibia and Sara Serraiocco, follows young socialist Aldo Marín as he flees Pinochet’s Chile in 1976 to take refuge in Italy  

12/12/2024 | Production | Funding | Italy/Chile/Switzerland

Review: Europa centrale

Review: Europa centrale

Trieste director Gianluca Minucci’s first feature is an expressionist, technically accomplished and well-acted piece of cinema which is sadly lacking in narrative  

04/12/2024 | Turin 2024

Review: L’Aiguille

Review: L’Aiguille

Abdelhamid Bouchnack shines a light on the sensitive subject of intersexuality in Tunisia, experienced as a source of shame to be washed away through surgical intervention on newborns  

02/12/2024 | Turin 2024

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