Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor.
Valeria Golino is an Italian actress and film director. She is best known to English-language audiences for her roles in Rain Man, Big Top Pee-wee, and both films in the Hot Shots! franchise. In addition to David di Donatello, Nastro d'Argento, Ciak d'oro and Globo d'oro awards, she is one of four actresses to have twice won the Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival.
Pierre Seel was a gay Holocaust survivor who was conscripted into the German Army and the only French person to have testified openly about his experience of deportation during World War II due to his homosexuality.
Holger Bernhard Bruno Mischwitzky, known professionally as Rosa von Praunheim, is a German film director, author, producer, professor of directing and one of the most influential and famous queer activists in the German-speaking world. A pioneer of Queer Cinema and gay activist from the very beginning, von Praunheim was a key co-founder of the modern lesbian and gay movement in Germany and Switzerland. He was an early advocate of AIDS awareness and safer sex. His films center on queer-related themes and strong female characters, are characterized by excess and employ a campy style. They have featured such personalities as Keith Haring, Larry Kramer, Diamanda Galás, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Judith Malina, Jeff Stryker, Jayne County, Divine, Charlotte von Mahlsdorf and a row of Warhol superstars. In over 50 years, von Praunheim has made more than 150 films. His works influenced the development of LGBTQ+ movements worldwide.
Margherita Buy is an Italian actress. She is a seven-time David di Donatello Awards winner and eight-time Nastro d'Argento winner.
Stefano Lelio Beniamino Accorsi is an Italian actor.
The 16th Cannes Film Festival was held from 9 to 23 May 1963. The Palme d'Or went to the Il Gattopardo by Luchino Visconti. The festival opened with The Birds, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Romanzo di una strage is a 2012 Italian historical drama film directed by Marco Tullio Giordana. It is loosely based on the book Il segreto di Piazza Fontana by Paolo Cucchiarelli. The film deals with the reconstruction of the Piazza Fontana bombing that took place in Milan December 12, 1969, and of the tragic events that ensued, from the death of Giuseppe Pinelli, which occurred in mysterious circumstances during an interrogation, to the death of the Commissioner Luigi Calabresi, who had led the investigation.
Stefano Casertano is a film director and producer.
Giovanni Coda is an Italian film director and photographer. He is the director of Il Rosa Nudo.
Human Capital is a 2013 Italian film directed by Paolo Virzì. The film is based on the American novel Human Capital by Stephen Amidon. For her performance in the film, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi was awarded Best Actress at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival. It was selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards, but was not nominated.
Alessandro D'Alatri was an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor. He started a career as an actor, and later he enrolled at as a successful career as a film and television director.
Simone Borrelli is an Italian actor, director, singer, songwriter and musician.
The 72nd annual Venice International Film Festival took place from 2 to 12 September 2015. Alfonso Cuarón served as the president of the jury for the main competition. A restored version of Federico Fellini's film Amarcord was shown at the festival. The Venezuelan film From Afar by Lorenzo Vigas won the Golden Lion award.
Love at First Sight is a 2011 United Kingdom short film shot in Spain, and written, directed and produced by Mark Playne.
Sara Serraiocco is an Italian actress, best known for playing Baldwin in the TV series Counterpart.
Frankie (Italian Roulette) is a short film written and directed by Francesco Mazza, who also acts as the main character.
Bullied to Death is a 2016 Italian-American film written and directed by Giovanni Coda, starring Tendal Mann. The film, shot in Italy and performed in English, was presented by the director and premiered during the 2016 edition of the Torino GLBT Film Festival. Bullied to Death is the second episode of the trilogy on gender-based violence started by the director with the film Il Rosa Nudo.
Carolina Cavalli is an Italian film director and screenwriter. She is best known as screenwriter and director of Amanda (2022) and as screenwriter of Fremont (2023).
Biografilm Festival is an international film festival held in Bologna, Italy, dedicated to biographies, documentaries, and life stories.
