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Gianluca Matarrese is an Italian filmmaker based in Paris who has made nine films over the past five years, which have been screened at international festivals such as the Sundance Film Festival, the Venice Film Festival, IDFA, Thessaloniki, CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, DMZ, the Torino Film Festival, Visions du Réel, Biografilm, Festival dei Popoli, Cinéma du Réel and many others. His work deals with a variety of topics, including body manipulation, gender identity, economic decline, traces of unresolved trauma, theatre, and the boundaries between reality and fiction. He has won awards including Best Italian Documentary at the Torino Film Festival and the Queer Lion in Venice. His films are regularly supported by broadcasters such as France Télévisions and Arte.
Films: MON BAISER DE CINÉMA (2014, K), DÉCISION (2015, K), EVERYTHING MUST GO (2019), THE LAST CHAPTER (2021), BARBARA PRAVI, VOILÀ QUI JE SUIS (2021), FASHION BABYLON (2022), A STEADY JOB (2022), PINNED INTO A DRESS (2022, K), LES BEAUX PARLEURS (2023), THE ZOLA EXPERIENCE (2023), GEN_ (2025), I WANT HER DEAD (2025)