Gianfranco Rosi

Italian American director Gianfranco Rosi’s most recent film Notturno was the Italian selection for the International Film Category at the Academy Awards and was shortlisted for the best documentary category. The idea for the story started to develop in 2016, when he was filming Fire at Sea, the documentary that captured life on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa during the European migrant crisis.

The Italian American documentarian Gianfranco Rosi, who's 56, is one of the most acclaimed filmmakers working in cinema today. His latest feature, Notturno ('Nocturne'), shot over the course of three years in Syria, Iraq, Kurdistan, and Lebanon and offers a timely and urgent chronicle of ordinary people in war zones of the Middle East as they struggle to exist and hope for more peaceful lives.

The Italian American documentarian Gianfranco Rosi, who's 56, is one of the most acclaimed filmmakers working in cinema today. His latest feature, Notturno ('Nocturne'), shot over the course of three years in Syria, Iraq, Kurdistan, and Lebanon and offers a timely and urgent chronicle of ordinary people in war zones of the Middle East as they struggle to exist and hope for more peaceful lives.