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Francesca Comencini
Roma, Italy
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 eig…
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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.
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2025
La diaspora delle Vele
Movie Director
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2024
The Time It Takes
Movie Writer
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2023
Django
TV show Director
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2021
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Movie Self
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2020
Luna Nera
TV show Director
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2017
Stories of Love That Cannot Belong to This World
Movie Director
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2014
Women Directors
Movie Francesca Comencini
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2014
Gomorrah
TV show Director
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2012
A Special Day
Movie Director
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2009
What Do You Know About Me
Movie Self
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2009
The White Space
Movie Director
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2009
L'Aquila 2009: Five Directors in the Rubble
Movie Director
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2007
In fabbrica
Movie Writer
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2006
Our Country
Movie Director
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2005
Le Cercle
TV show
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2004
Visions of Europe
Movie Director
More credits
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2004
I Like to Work – Mobbing
Movie Director
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2002
Carlo Giuliani, a Boy
Movie Director
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2001
The Words of My Father
Movie Director
- 2000
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1997
Shakespeare a Palermo
Movie Director
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1991
Miracle of Marcellino
Movie Assistant Director
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1991
Annabelle partagée
Movie Director
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1988
La lumière du lac
Movie Writer
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1988
The French as Seen by…
Movie Self (Segment "Pèlerinage à Agen")
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1988
Pilgrimage to Agen
Movie Herself
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1987
A Boy from Calabria
Movie Screenplay
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1985
Pianoforte
Movie Writer
