Annarita Zambrano | |
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| Nationality | Italian |
| Occupation | Film director |
| Years active | 1998—present |
| Notable work | After the War (2017) |
Annarita Zambrano is an Italian film director. [1]
She graduated in Modern Literature from Sapienza and in 2000 moved to Paris to work on her doctoral thesis on the aesthetics of cinema. [2]
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She has made a name for herself as a filmmaker after a series of successful short films that have screened at influential film festivals: La troisième fois (2006), Andante Mezzo Forte (2007), À la lune montante (2009), Tre ore (2010), Dans le coeur des grands (2012). Dans le coeur des grands won the Grand Prix at 2012 Conti Film Festival. [3] [4]
In 2013, she filmed a documentary L'anima del Gattopardo about Luchino Visconti, made for Ciné+ and RAI channels. [5] In the same year her short film Ophelis was selected for the Short Film Competition in Cannes. [6] [7]
Her debut feature After the War was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. [8] [9]
Her sophomore feature, a dark comedy Rossosperanza , was screened at the 76th Locarno Film Festival. [10] For Rossosperanza, Zambrano was honoured with the Titrafilm Award at 2022 Les Arcs Film Festival. [11]