Maura Delpero's cinema: A Conversation with the Filmmaker

The Euganea Film Festival pays tribute to Maura Delpero with a retrospective dedicated to her filmography. The director will be a guest at the Festival on Sunday, September 7, for a meeting with the public.

Winner of the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival and greeted by solid box office results last season, Vermiglio (2024) has won over critics and audiences alike, placing its author, Maura Delpero, at the center of Italian and international cinema discourse—and propelling the film into the Golden Globe race. The reasons for this success, which only through carelessness could be considered unexpected, can be found in the consistent trajectory of a director who, in just a handful of works, has been able to refine a singularly profound and clear vision: Delpero's humanist cinema thrives on the fertile dialogue between an almost ethnographic approach and a joyful immediacy of filmic syntax, whether in documentary or fiction cinema. Delpero's stories follow women and men in their relationships with each other and with their surroundings, with a special focus on the microcosm of mountain communities, from her debut Moglie e buoi dei paesi tuoi (2006) to Vermiglio. The Euganea Film Festival, which in past editions presciently presented Signori professori (2008) and Nadea e Sveta (2012), pays tribute to the Bolzano-born director in its 24th edition with a rich retrospective of her works.