Francesca Comencini

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 dArgento awards for Best Film and Best Screenplay