Francesca Comencini
Born: 1961-08-19 in Roma, Italy
Known For: Directing
Biography
Born in Rome in 1961, she is a director and screenwriter who studied philosophy at La Sapienza University before interrupting her studies to move to Paris, where she lived for eighteen years and where her three children were born. Her debut film, Pianoforte (1984), won the De Sica Award at the Venice International Film Festival. Since then, she has worked tirelessly across documentary and fiction, tackling themes that continually question reality and its conflicts, including Carlo Giuliani, Boy (2002), I Like to Work (Mobbing) (2004), In fabbrica (2007), and The White Space (2009). In the following years, he directed several episodes of TV series such as Gomorrah and Django. In 2024, he released The Time It Takes, an autobiographical film dedicated to his father, Luigi Comencini, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival and won the Nastri d’Argento awards for Best Film and Best Screenplay.
Filmography
2025
- La diaspora delle Vele ... (Director)
2024
- The Time It Takes ... (Writer)
2023
- Django ... (Director)
2021
2020
- Luna Nera ... (Director)
2017
- Stories of Love That Cannot Belong to This World ... (Director)
2014
- Gomorrah ... (Director)
- Women Directors as Francesca Comencini
2012
- A Special Day ... (Director)
2009
- What Do You Know About Me as Self
- The White Space ... (Director)
- L'Aquila 2009: Five Directors in the Rubble ... (Director)
2007
- In fabbrica ... (Writer)
2006
- Our Country ... (Director)
2005
2004
- Visions of Europe ... (Director)
- I Like to Work – Mobbing ... (Director)
2002
- Carlo Giuliani, a Boy ... (Director)
2001
- The Words of My Father ... (Director)
2000
1997
- Shakespeare a Palermo ... (Director)
1991
- Miracle of Marcellino ... (Assistant Director)
- Annabelle partagée ... (Director)
1988
- The French as Seen by… as Self (Segment "Pèlerinage à Agen")
- Pilgrimage to Agen as Herself
- La lumière du lac ... (Writer)
1987
- A Boy from Calabria ... (Screenplay)
1985
- Pianoforte ... (Writer)