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Vittoria Scarpa


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

Li Dongmei • Director of Mama

Interview: Li Dongmei • Director of Mama

"My intention was to make a film in a documentary style so that the emotions would be true"

VENICE 2020: Chinese director Li Dongmei talks about her feature debut, Mama, in which she travels back in time, telling a painful family story  

12/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Giornate degli Autori

The Whaler Boy walks away with the 2020 GdA Director’s Award

The Whaler Boy walks away with the 2020 GdA Director’s Award

VENICE 2020: Philipp Yuryev’s film has been crowned the champion of the jury composed of 27 European viewers, while 200 Meters bagged the Audience Award and Oasis scooped the Europa Cinemas Label  

12/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Giornate degli Autori/Awards

Ameen Nayfeh • Director of 200 Meters

Interview: Ameen Nayfeh • Director of 200 Meters

"I wanted to create a film that reflects the political situation, but also one that's entertaining"

VENICE 2020: Ameen Nayfeh talks about his feature debut, 200 Meters, a film that tells of the harsh lives of Palestinians divided by a wall  

12/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Giornate degli Autori

Doriana Monaco • Director of Agalma

Interview: Doriana Monaco • Director of Agalma

"At the core of my story is the statue, which manages to express itself without the need to resort to a caption"

VENICE 2020: Director Doriana Monaco documents daily life in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples in her medium-length film Agalma  

11/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Giornate degli Autori

Tadhg O'Sullivan • Director of To The Moon

Interview: Tadhg O'Sullivan • Director of To The Moon

"The moon is something we share in space and time, a powerful symbol of universality"

VENICE 2020: Irish artist and filmmaker Tadhg O'Sullivan talks to us about To the Moon, a documentary made up of archive material and original footage shot all over the world  

11/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Giornate degli Autori

Edoardo Natoli • Director of Solitaire

Interview: Edoardo Natoli • Director of Solitaire

"We have all experienced the feeling of not being able to go out of our own house"

VENICE 2020: After his 2013 title Secchi, Edoardo Natoli returns to Giornate degli Autori with a new stop-motion short, Solitaire  

10/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Giornate degli Autori

Merawi Gerima • Director of Residue

Interview: Merawi Gerima • Director of Residue

"Gentrification is a symptom of a much larger problem of our powerlessness as black people"

VENICE 2020: With his feature debut Residue, director Merawi Gerima takes an in-depth look at the burning issues triggering the Black Lives Matter movement  

10/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Giornate degli Autori

Ivan Ikic • Director of Oasis

Interview: Ivan Ikic • Director of Oasis

"My challenge was to make people with mental disabilities play fictional roles, not themselves"

VENICE 2020: Serbia's Ivan Ikić presents his second feature Oasis, which tells the story of a love triangle within the walls of an institution for young people with special needs  

10/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: 200 Meters

Review: 200 Meters

VENICE 2020: Competing in Venice’s Giornate degli Autori, the first work by Palestine’s Ameen Nayfeh tells of a father’s absurd journey to reach his family on the other side of the West Bank Barrier  

10/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Giornate degli Autori

Ivan I Tverdovsky • Director of Conference

Interview: Ivan I Tverdovsky • Director of Conference

"That terrible moment was a story that couldn't not be told"

VENICE 2020: In Conference, Russia's Ivan I Tverdovskiy depicts a controversial commemoration of the 2002 terrorist attack on the Dubrovka Theatre in Moscow  

09/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Giornate degli Autori

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