Davide Ferrario
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- May 26, 1956, Casalmaggiore, Cremona, Lombardy, Italy
- Movies
- 37
Davide Ferrario (born 26 June 1956) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and author.
Born in Casalmaggiore, Cremona, Ferrario graduated in Anglo-American literature, then he began to work in film distribution, and he contributed to import in Italy many indie films by John Sayles, Jim Jarmusch, Susan Seidelman, Godfrey Reggio. He also collaborated as a film critic with the cinema magazine Cineforum, and he wrote a monograph about Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
After collaborating to several screenplays, Ferrario made his directorial debut in 1987 with the short film Non date da mangiare agli animali, and in 1989 he directed his first feature film, the neo-noir The End of the Night. His 2004 film After Midnight entered the Forum section at the 54th Berlin International Film Festival, in which Ferrario won the Caligari Film Prize and the Don Quixote Award. Also a novelist, his 1995 debut novel Dissolvenza al nero was later adapted into a film, Fade to Black by Oliver Parker.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2024 | Zamora | Portiere |
| 2020 | Torino 20venti - Storie da un altro mondo | Himself |
| 2003 | Mondonuovo | Himself |
| 1998 | Homo Cinematographicus | Self |
| 1989 | La fine della notte | Reporter |
| 1987 | Matewan | Gianni |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2025 | Behind a Portrait. The Italian Treasures from Accademia Carrara | Screenplay, Producer, Director |
| 2024 | Italo Calvino nelle città | Director, Writer |
| 2023 | Umberto Eco: A Library of the World | Writer, Director, Producer |
| 2023 | A guardia di una fede | Producer |
| 2021 | Boys | Screenplay, Director |
| 2021 | Handbook of Movie Theaters' History | Producer |
| 2021 | Blood on the Crown | Director |
| 2020 | Nuovo cinema paralitico | Director, Producer, Writer |
| 2019 | Star stuff | Producer |
| 2017 | Cento anni | Screenplay, Producer, Director |
| 2015 | Sexxx | Producer, Director |
| 2014 | La zuppa del demonio | Screenplay, Producer, Director |
| 2014 | La luna su Torino | Writer, Director, Producer |
| 2013 | Venice 70: Future Reloaded | Director |
| 2011 | Piazza Garibaldi | Producer, Director, Writer |
| 2009 | Tutta colpa di Giuda | Producer, Writer, Director |
| 2006 | Primo Levi's Journey | Director, Screenplay, Producer |
| 2004 | Se devo essere sincera | Director |
| 2004 | After Midnight | Producer, Writer, Director |
| 2003 | Mondonuovo | Director, Writer |
| 2002 | Le strade di Genova | Director |
| 2000 | I-TIGI a Gibellina - Racconto per Ustica | Director |
| 1999 | Guardami | Writer, Director |
| 1999 | In principio erano le mutande | Screenplay |
| 1998 | Children of Hannibal | Screenplay, Director |
| 1997 | Sul 45° parallelo | Director |
| 1997 | We All Fall Down | Screenplay, Director |
| 1997 | Partigiani | Director |
| 1995 | Materiale resistente | Producer, Director |
| 1994 | Love Burns | Director, Writer |
| 1989 | La fine della notte | Screenplay, Director |
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