UOMINI E LUPI

Daniele Vicari

(Castel di Tora, Rieti, 1967) after film studies and a few collaborations with movie magazines, in the early 1990s began making historical-political short and medium-length movies, including Comunisti (1998), the collective project Partigiani (Partisans, 1997), and Non mi basta mai (1999), which he directed with Guido Chiesa, all presented at the Torino Film Festival. In 2002, with Velocità massima (Maximum Velocity) he participated in competition at the Venice Film Festival and won the Pasinetti Award, followed by a David di Donatello for best new director. In 2005, with L'orizzonte degli eventi he participated at the Semaine de la critique in Cannes and two years later he won another David di Donatello for his documentary Il mio paese. He next presented Il passato è una terra straniera (The Past is a Foreign Land, 2008) at the Rome Film Fest and his best-known movie Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood (2012) at the Berlinale, winning the Panorama Audience Award. That same year, he once again won a Pasinetti Award in Venice with his documentary La nave dolce (The Human Cargo), and in 2017 he presented Sole cuore amore (Sun, Heart, Love) in Rome, winning the Silver Ribbon for legality and winning another one the next year with the TV movie Prima che la notte. In 2021, he directed Il giorno e la notte (The Day and the Night), made during the lockdown. With Andrea Porporati and Francesca Zanza, he founded the production company Kon-Tiki film and he also published a novel with Einaudi, Emanuele nella battaglia (2019).

FILMOGRAFIA

Il nuovo (cm, 1991), Mari del sud (cm, 1993), Partigiani (coregia Guido Chiesa, Davide Ferrario, Antonio Leotti e Marco Simon Puccioni, doc., 1997), Uomini e lupi (doc., 1998), Comunisti (doc., 1998), Bajram (doc., 1998), Non mi basta mai (coregia Guido Chiesa, doc., 1999), Sesso, marmitte e videogames (cm, doc., 1999), Morto che parla (cm, 2000), Velocità massima (2002), L’orizzonte degli eventi (2005), Il mio paese (doc.., 2006), Il mio paese 2.0 (doc., 2007), Il passato è una terra straniera (2008), Diaz - Don’t Clean Up This Blood (2012), La nave dolce (doc.., 2012), UnoNessuno (2015), Sole cuore amore (2016), Prima che la notte (tv, 2018), L’Alligatore (serie tv, 2020), Aria (serie tv, 2020), Il giorno e la notte (2021), Orlando (2022).