NASTASSIA

Francesco Munzi

Francesco Munzi (Rome, Italy, 1969), after getting his degree in political science, studied filmmaking at the Centro sperimentale di cinematografia, graduating in 1998. In 2004, he made his first feature film, Saimir, and presented it in the Horizons section of the Venice Film Festival, where it got a special mention for the Luigi De Laurentiis Opera Prima Award; in 2006, it received another five Silver Ribbons nominations, winning Best New Director, two David di Donatello, and a European Film Festival nomination for European Discovery of the Year (the Fassbinder Prize). His second movie, Il resto della notte (2008), was presented at the Quinzaine des réalisateurs in Cannes. He returned to the Venice Film Festival in 2014 with Anime nere, winning nine David di Donatello Awards. In 2016, he wrote the book L’ora di regia with Gianni Amelio as part of the Centro sperimentale di cinematografia series published by Rubbettino.

FILMOGRAFIA

Valse (cm, 1992), Tre del mattino (cm, 1994), Nastassia (cm, 1996), L’età incerta (cm, 1998), Giacomo e Luo Ma (cm, 1999), Van Gogh (doc., 1990), La disfatta (doc., 1994), Il neorealismo. Letteratura e cinema (doc., 1999), Saimir (2004), Il resto della notte (2008), Anime nere (2014).