Isabel Pagliai

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Director of
FANTAISIE

She studied literature, art history and cinema at university in Paris and she is a graduate of Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains. Her cinematographic work, combines a fictional approach with documentary filming. Her films have been exhibited and screened at numerous international festivals (New Directors/New Films, Cinéma du Réel, International Film Festival Rotterdam...), including the Viennale, which is devoting a first monograph to her in 2020. Isabella Morra (2015) won numerous awards, including Best International Short/Medium Film at the RIDM. Tender (2020) won Best Film at DocumentaMadrid, Best Short Film at IndieLisboa and was pre-nominated in the Best Documentary Short category at the César Awards 2022. Fantasy (2025), her first feature film, won the First Film Award at FIDMarseille 2025.

Films: FANTASY (2025), TENDER (TENDRE), 2020, ORFEO, 2017, ISABELLA MORRA, 2015,