Known For
Directing
Born
Aug 19, 1961
Place of Birth
Roma, Italy
Credits
28 titles
Francesca Comencini
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.
Known For
Filmography
La diaspora delle Vele
Director
The Time It Takes
Director
Django
Director
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Self
Luna Nera
Director
Stories of Love That Cannot Belong to This World
Director
Women Directors
Francesca Comencini
Gomorrah
Director
A Special Day
Director
What Do You Know About Me
Self
The White Space
Director
L'Aquila 2009: Five Directors in the Rubble
Director
In fabbrica
Director
Our Country
Director
Le Cercle
Visions of Europe
Director
I Like to Work – Mobbing
Director
Carlo Giuliani, a Boy
Director
The Words of My Father
Director
Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema
Self
Shakespeare a Palermo
Director
Miracle of Marcellino
Assistant Director
Annabelle partagée
Director
La lumière du lac
Writer
The French as Seen by…
Self (Segment "Pèlerinage à Agen")
Pilgrimage to Agen
Herself
A Boy from Calabria
Screenplay
Pianoforte
Writer