DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM | 1H 22’ | SPAIN | 2020
DIRECTOR
Ilaria Gambarelli
SYNOPSIS
Lorenzo Riva, a world famous Italian fashion designer and Luigi Valietti, his collaborator and ex-partner in life, fight to reconquest the heights of haute couture in an economically depressed country, Italy. After years of separation they have to return to living together and start a depending relationship.
PREMIERE
Spain
FESTIVALS
Odesa Film Festival
ILARIA GAMBARELLI
Born in Genova, Italy, Ilaria Gambarelli is a cinema director, screenwriter and producer. She obtains the title of Script and Direction at the School of Cinematographic Art in Genova and successively at the Centre d’ Estudis Cinematografics de Catalunya. She is also graduated in Arabic and Muslim Study at the Seville University of Spain. In 2013 she created the production company Aretusa Films, with which she produced her first feature film, “Ti offro da bere”.
In February 2015 she took part in the workshop of the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami in Barcelona and under his supervision she made a short film called “Porta Europa”.
In September 2015, she participated in the workshop Documentary and Fiction directed by Victor Erice in San Sebastian, Spain and in July 2016, in the workshop directed by Naomi Kawase included in the Cinema Essay Master of the Film and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba.
She is member of CIMA (Association of Spanish Women Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media) and DOCMA, Documentary Film Association of Spain.