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Vittoria Scarpa


1918 articles available in total starting from 01/03/2007. Last article published on 04/07/2025.

Gianni Amelio • Director

Interview: Gianni Amelio • Director

“We need some tenderness to chase away our anxieties”

Multi-award-winning director Gianni Amelio talks about his latest film, Holding Hands, fresh from its international premiere at Bari’s Bif&st  

24/04/2017

Nine projects developed by the TFL SeriesLab being shown at Séries Mania

Nine projects developed by the TFL SeriesLab being shown at Séries Mania

The inaugural edition of the TorinoFilmLab’s programme for TV series will bear its first fruits on 20 April at the Séries Mania Coproduction Forum in Paris  

19/04/2017 | Festivals | France/Italy

Amelio, Ardant, Schlöndorff and Konchalovsky among the guests at the Bif&st

Amelio, Ardant, Schlöndorff and Konchalovsky among the guests at the Bif&st

The eighth edition of the Bari International Film Festival is set to unspool from 22-29 April, chaired for the first time by director Margarethe von Trotta  

13/04/2017 | Bif&st 2017

Another Me: Looking into the minds of convicts of sexual violence

Another Me: Looking into the minds of convicts of sexual violence

Screened recently at the Lecce Film Festival, Claudio Casazza’s documentary follows the rehabilitation of a group of sex offenders at Bollate Prison  

12/04/2017 | Films | Italy

Tereza Kotyk • Director

Interview: Tereza Kotyk • Director

“Home is something we find inside ourselves”

Austrian director Tereza Kotyk talks to us about her debut feature film, Home is Here, in competition at the Lecce European Film Festival, a minimalist and poetic dialogue across a distance  

11/04/2017

Florian Eichinger • Director

Interview: Florian Eichinger • Director

“It is better to admit an unsettling truth than to lie to ourselves”

We caught up with German director Florian Eichinger at the Lecce European Film Festival, where he competed with Hands of a Mother, the unsettling tale of a mother’s abuse towards her son  

10/04/2017

My Happy Family triumphs at Lecce

My Happy Family triumphs at Lecce

The Georgian film has won the Golden Olive Tree, Best Cinematography and the FIPRESCI Award; The Constitution also scooped three prizes, while the Cineuropa Prize went to When the Day Had No Name  

10/04/2017 | Lecce 2017 | Awards

Framing Mom: Who we are, and where we come from

Framing Mom: Who we are, and where we come from

In competition at the 18th Lecce Film Festival, the fourth feature film by Sarah Johnsen is the anything but classic story of a young woman looking for her mother  

07/04/2017 | Lecce 2017

Jo Sol • Director

Interview: Jo Sol • Director

“My aim is to shake up reality”

Barcelona-born director Jo Sol talks to us about his latest film, Living and Other Fictions, screened in competition at the 18th Lecce European Film Festival  

06/04/2017

Forest 4am: Fleeing civilization

Forest 4am: Fleeing civilization

The latest film by Polish director Jan Jakub Kolski, which centres around a manager who, after suffering great pain, withdraws to the forest, is being shown at the 18th Lecce European Film Festival  

05/04/2017 | Lecce 2017

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