DIRECTORS

Alberto Sironi
1940
Si forma alla scuola d'arte drammatica del Piccolo Teatro di Milano, guidata da Giorgio Strehler e Paolo Grassi. Dopo diverse esperienze teatrali al Piccolo, negli anni settanta comincia a collaborare con la Rai per la quale realizza...

Alfred Hitchcock
1899 - 1980
Hitchcock pioneered many elements of the suspense and psychological thriller genres.

He worked in silent films and the talkies and became renowed as England's best Director. He moved to Hollywood in 1939 and became a US...

Anne Fontaine
1959
Anne Fontaine is a film director, screenwriter, and former actress.
Fontaine's first project as solo director, Les Histoires d'amour finissent mal... en général (Love Affairs Usually End Badly), won the 1993 Prix...

Bigas Luna
1946 – 2013
Josep Joan Bigas i Luna was a Spanish film director, designer and artist.
His films are typically characterised by a strong emphasis on the erotic, often related to food, something for which he admitted a strong passion.

Bruce Robinson
1946
Bruce Robinson is an English director, screenwriter novelist and actor.

He is arguably most famous for writing and directing the cult classic film 'Withnail and I'.

As an actor he has worked with Franco Zeffirelli,...

Claude Berri
1934 – 2009
Claude Berri was born on July 1, 1934 in Paris, France as Claude Berel Langmann. He was a producer and actor, known forJuntos, nada más(2007),El manantial de las colinas(1986) andLa venganza de Manon(1986). He was married to...

Dany Boon
1966
Dany Boon, born to an Franco-Berber (Kabyle), first started his career dubbing cartoons and performing as a mime in the street.

In 1992, he was given his first break as a comedian by French television personality Patrick...

David Lean
1908 – 1991
Sir David Lean was an English Film Director known especially for his Oscar-adorned spectacles 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' (1957) 'Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and 'Dr Zhivago' (1965).

He made nine films in his first decade...

Giuseppe Tornatore
1956
Giuseppe Tornatore (born 27 May 1956) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He is considered as one of the directors who brought critical acclaim back to Italian cinema. In a career spanning over 30 years he is best known...

Jaco Van Dormael
1957
Jaco Van Dormael (born 9 February 1957) is a Belgian film director, screenwriter and playwright.
He studied filmmaking at the INSAS in Brussels, where he wrote and directed his first short film, Maedeli la brèche (1981),...