Ruggero Gabbai

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Ruggero Gabbai
Born (1964-08-06) 6 August 1964 (age 60)
Antwerp, Belgium
NationalityItalian
Occupation(s)Film director, photographer

Ruggero Gabbai (6 August 1964) is an Italian film director and photographer.

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Career

In 2013 Gabbai was the artistic director for the opening of Binario 21 at Stazione Centrale di Milano. He completed the documentary The Longest Journey, [1] about the deportation of the Italian Jews of Rhodes during the Second World War. The film has been selected at the 30th Jerusalem International Film Festival and been shown in a world premiere at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City. Since then, the film has screened in many festivals worldwide, as well as airing on national TV-channel RAI 1 on International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2014 and 2015 and being presented at the Italian Parliament by the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Laura Boldrini, together with the Minister of Education. In 2014, Ruggero Gabbai received the Mario Francese award for the high civil value of his films within the context of historical memory. [2]

In 2015 Gabbai completed his documentary Starting Over Again on the Western communities during the '40s and the '50s in Egypt before the 1952 Revolution and the nationalism of Nasser. The film aired on JLTV in the US and Canada and has screened in many festivals around the world. The following year he produced and directed CityZen, a documentary on the destitute ZEN district in Palermo. [3]

Some of Gabbai's documentaries have been shown in several international museums such as the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Museum Ägyptischer Kunst in Munich, the Jewish Museum of New York, Yad Vashem and the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. [4] Ruggero Gabbai's film, Du TGM au TGV, premiered with Michel Boujenah at the Grand Rex cinema. [5]

Liliana was directed by Gabbai and produced by Forma International in collaboration with Rai Cinema. It is a docu-fiction that portrays the life of Liliana Segre, a senator of the Italian Repubic. The film was selected for the 2024 Rome Film Festival and won the Sorriso Diverso Roma Award. [6]

Gabbai at Venice 70 Film Festival, 2013 Ruggero Gabbai at the Venice 70 Film Festival.jpg
Gabbai at Venice 70 Film Festival, 2013

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References

  1. ↑ The longest journey Archived 30 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ premio Mario Francese
  3. ↑ ZEN of Palermo
  4. ↑ Miller, Phyllis (19 August 2021). "The Holocaust Films of Ruggero Gabbai and Other Filmmakers". Article. The Times of Israel. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
  5. ↑ "Ritorno a Tunisi: Sulle tracce di una memoria interrotta". 2 May 2022.
  6. ↑ https://www.formainternational.it/press/
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