Francesca Comencini

Directing·Aug 19, 1961·Roma, Italy

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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.

Film	Credit
LLa diaspora delle Vele2025 · Director	Director
The Time It Takes2024 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita2021 · Self	Self
Stories of Love That Cannot Belong to This World2017 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Women Directors2014 · Francesca Comencini	Francesca Comencini
A Special Day2012 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
What Do You Know About Me2009 · Self	Self
The White Space2009 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
L'Aquila 2009: Five Directors in the Rubble2009 · Director	Director
IIn fabbrica2007 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Our Country2006 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Visions of Europe2004 · Director	Director
I Like to Work – Mobbing2004 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Carlo Giuliani, a Boy2002 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Words of My Father2001 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema2000 · Self	Self
Shakespeare a Palermo1997 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Annabelle partagée1991 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
La lumière du lac1988 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Pilgrimage to Agen1988 · Herself	Herself
The French as Seen by…1988 · Self (Segment "Pèlerinage à Agen")	Self (Segment "Pèlerinage à Agen")
A Boy from Calabria1987 · Screenplay	Screenplay
Pianoforte1985 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer