Everyone has their own Chimera, something they try to achieve but never manage to find. For the band of tombaroli, thieves of ancient grave goods and archaeological wonders, the Chimera means redemption from work and the dream of easy wealth.
For Arthur, the Chimera looks like the woman he lost, Beniamina. To find her, Arthur challenges the invisible, searches everywhere, goes inside the earth – in search of the door to the afterlife of which myths speak. In an adventurous journey between the living and the dead, between forests and cities, between celebrations and solitude, the intertwined destinies of these characters unfold, all in search of the Chimera.
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
Cannes’23 – Nomination for palme d’Or
European Film Awards’23 – European Production Designer
Alice Rohrwacher
Alice Rohrwacher was born in 1981 in Fiesole (Italy) and studied in Turin and Lisbon. She has worked in music as performing musician for theater and in documentary filmmaking as editor and director. In 2004 she penned the story and script for the documentary “Un piccolo spettacolo” (dir. Pierpaolo Giarolo), and between 2006 and 2009 she worked on another five documentaries, writing the story, editing, and assistant directing. Her first feature “Corpo Celeste” premiered in Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight) in 2011, was then selected in Sundance, Karlovy Vary, New York, London, Rio, and Tokyo. For her second film, “The Wonders”, Alice Rohrwacher received the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes in 2014, and in 2018, her third film, “Happy as Lazzaro”, was awarded the Best Screenplay prize at Cannes. In 2016, Rohrwacher directed Verdi's “La Traviata” for the Valli Theater in Reggio Emilia, Italy. In 2021, she presents the documentary film “Futura”, directed by her, Pietro Marcello and Francesco Munzi, in the “Directors' fortnight” section. In 2023, Rohrwacher received an Oscar nomination for the short feature film “The Pupils”, co-produced by Alfonso Cuarón for Disney.
2006 Checosamanca – doc.
2011 Corpo celeste
2014 9x10 novanta – doc. (segment „Una canzone")
2014 The Wonders (Le meraviglie)
2015 De Djess – short
2018 Happy as Lazzaro (Lazzaro felice)
2023 La Chimera (La chimera)
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