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Albert Serra

(Banyoles, Spain, 1975) is a Catalan artist and director. Having studied philosophy and literature, he wrote plays and produced different video works. He gained an international recognition in 2016 with his first long feature, Honor of the Knights, a free adaptation of Don Quijote which was selected at Cannes' Directors Fortnight and won Best Film award at TFF. For his second film, Birdsong (2008), he took inspiration in a traditional Catalan Christmas song: this film too premiered at Directors Fortnight, and then was selected in many film festival among which TFF. In 2013, the Centre Pompidou in Paris gave him a carte blanche for a correspondence with the Argentinian director Lisandro Alonso. The same year he received the Golden Leopard in Locarno for his new film Story of my Death, inspired by Casanova’s memoirs, which was then selected in Turin. After Roi Soleil, Best Film at FID Marseille, he directed Liberté (2019), which premiere at Certain regard in Cannes and then at TFF. Pacifiction (2022) was selected in Cannes, in competition.

FILMOGRAFIA

Honor de Cavalleria (2006), El cant dels ocells (2008), Història de la meva mort (2013), La mort de Louis XIV (2016), Roi Soleil (2018), Liberté (2019), Pacifiction (2022).