FRANCESCA ARCHIBUGI

AWARD-WINNING ITALIAN FILMMAKER

ARCHIBUGI HAS PICKED UP PRIZES IN CANNES, VENICE AND SAN SEBASTIÁN for titles such as L’albero delle pere , La stana storia di Banda Sonora , Mignon è partita and Il grande cocomero . On television, she co-created and directed all six episodes of family drama Romanzo famigliare , which aired in 2018. Now she is helming eight-part period drama La Storia , which is based on Elsa Morante’s novel of the same name, with Archibugi overseeing fi lming in Rome, Naples and Lazio.

Jasmine Trinca stars as Ida, a single mother of two sons who hides her Jewish heritage and fi ghts against poverty and persecution during the end of the Second World War in Nazi-occupied Italy. Valerio Mastandrea and Asia Argento also star.