
August 19, 1953 · 73 years old
Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti (Italian pronunciation: [ˈnanni moˈretti]; born 19 August 1953; Brunico) is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. The Palme d'Or winner in 2001, in 2012 he was the President of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival. His films have won accolades includin…

A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba-diving accident.

Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.

A story centered on the relationship between the newly elected Pope and his therapist.

Director Nanni Moretti takes a mordant look at Italian life through three disparate journeys, presented as the chapters of an open diary.

A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feelings about Cinema.

The son of a shepherd embarks in the quest of emancipating himself from a tough lifestyle that his condition and his father force on him.

A look at the strange bereavement behavior of an Italian executive. Based on a novel by Sandro Veronesi.

Michele is a mathematics professor who just started a new job in a school with some peculiar teaching methods. After a woman in his neighborhood is murdered, Michele meets beautiful colleague Bianca, and a relationship begins betw...

Nanni Moretti takes a comic look at the ebbs and flows of his life as he becomes a father for the first time. He struggles with distractions while trying to make a documentary of the Italian national elections.

The story of three families living in three apartments in the same bourgeois condominium.

Michele, an Italian Communist Party deputy, struggles with amnesia. While attending a water polo match, he pieces together fragments of his life and reflects on the challenges facing the left wing.

An ironic peek into the life of a group of Italian university students in the 1970s.

The young priest Father Giulio returns to Rome, his hometown, after a long pilgrimage. Don Giulio hopes to live peacefully with his family and his friends, but discovers that many of them are depressed or frustrated, and some suic...

Michele criticizes the film industry and its inhabitants, and is particularly embattled with a Neapolitan director making a musical about the 1968 student demonstrations. At the same time, Michele has a creative block and struggle...

The film tells the misadventures of a company of players who are oppressed by a tyrannical director. At the same time, his friend Michele is living with the failure of his marriage to Silvia.

After the coup d'État of the Democratic government of Allende, the embassy of Italy in Santiago played a major role in helping the opposers of the regime, and extradited many of them Italy. These brave men are represented in this ...

A look at Fellini's creative process. In extensive interviews, Fellini talks a bit about his background and then discusses how he works and how he creates. Several actors, a producer, a writer, and a production manager talk about ...

Renowned British journalist examines Italy's moral, political and economic crisis, looking for clues to its possible salvation--and that of the West as a whole.