I direct and produce documentaries. I am drawn to stories that cross boundaries: between Italy and Germany, between high and popular culture, between memory and the present.

I started in 2011 with Munich, Italy, about Italians in Bavaria. Other films I have directed:

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Crespi d’Adda. Utopia of Work (2025): the workers’ village, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the industrial dream that built it.

Italo Svevo. Secret Writing in Trieste (2024): the writer who worked in industry and wrote in secret.

Italo Disco. The sparkling sound of the 80s (2021): the music Italy looked down on and Europe danced to.

The legacy of the Cistercians: Italy (2019): the abbeys of Casamari and Fossanova and what the Cistercian monks left to Italy.

La Cicciolina. Godmother of Scandal (2016): Ilona Staller, between adult cinema, the Italian Parliament and the art of Jeff Koons.

Stelvio. Crossroads of Peace (2014): the Alpine pass, its First World War history and its sporting legacy.

The complete list of films is available here.