Francesca Archibugi

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Francesca Archibugi is an Italian film director and screenwriter born in Rome on May 16, 1960. She comes from an intellectual family; her brother is the theorist Daniele Archibugi. She studied acting with Alessandro Fersen and graduated in Film Direction from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome.

In the early 1980s she made short films and acted in others. She wrote the script for L’estate sta finendo (1987). Her first feature film, Mignon Has Come to Stay (1988), is a bitter family portrait about teenage love. It won five David di Donatello awards, including Best New Director and Best Actress (Stefania Sandrelli).

Her second film, Towards Evening (1990), stars Marcello Mastroianni and Sandrine Bonnaire and won Best Film at the David di Donatello Awards; it was entered into the Moscow International Film Festival. The Great Pumpkin (Il grande cocomero) (1993) won Best Film and Best Script at the David di Donatello Awards and was shown at Cannes.

In 1994 she released Con gli occhi chiusi, based on Federico Tozzi’s novel. She followed with Shooting the Moon (1998). Tomorrow (2001), starring Ornella Muti, is about the 1997 earthquake in Umbria and Marche. She also contributed to Pasolini – Le ragioni di un sogno (2001) and directed Flying Lessons (2007) with Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Roberto Citran.