Albert Serra (Catalan pronunciation: �lß'ɛɾ sɛrəborn 9 October 1975) is a Spanish independent

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and manager of the production company Andergraun Films, set up by Montse Triola primarily to produce Serra's films. He is best known for his films ''

Story of My Death ''Story of My Death'' ( ca, Història de la meva mort) is a film directed by Albert Serra. It won the Golden Leopard at the 2013 Locarno International Film Festival. Reception The film won the Golden Leopard at the 2013 Locarno International Fi ...

'' (2013) and ''

The Death of Louis XIV ''The Death of Louis XIV'' (french: La Mort de Louis XIV) is a 2016 historical drama film directed by Albert Serra and starring Jean-Pierre Léaud. Set in 1715, it depicts the final days of Louis XIV of France. The film had its world premiere a ...

'' (2016), starring

Jean-Pierre Léaud Jean-Pierre Léaud, ComM (; born 28 May 1944) is a French actor, known for playing Antoine Doinel in François Truffaut's series of films about that character, beginning with ''The 400 Blows'' (1959). He also worked several times with Jean-Luc Go ...

. Serra has been called "one of the most singular and radical filmmakers working today."

Awards and festival selections

* ''

Honor of the Knights ''Honor of the Knights'' ( ca, Honor de cavalleria; also known as ''Honor of the Knights/Quixotic'') is a 2006 slow film by Catalan auteur Albert Serra. The film re-envisions the adventures from the Miguel de Cervantes novel ''Don Quixote'', esch ...

'' (2006) ** 2006 Viennale Directors' Fortnight - FIPRESCI Prize ** Best Feature Film, also ''Holden Award for Best Script - Special Mention'', at the 2006

Torino Film Festival The Torino Film Festival (also called the Turin Film Festival, TFF) is an international film festival held annually in Turin, Italy. Held every November, it is the second largest film festival in Italy, following the Venice Film Festival. It was f ...

** Grand Prize at the 2006 Entrevues Belfort film festival ** Best Emerging Director and Best Film in Catalan Language awards, 2006 Barcelona Cinema Awards ** Selected by

Cahiers du Cinéma ''Cahiers du Cinéma'' (, ) is a French film magazine co-founded in 1951 by André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca.Itzkoff, Dave (9 February 2009''Cahiers Du Cinéma Will Continue to Publish''The New York TimesMacnab ...

as one of the 10 best films of 2007. * ''

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'' (2008) ** 2008 Cannes Directors' Fortnight ** Best Film and Best Director at the 2009

Gaudí Awards The Gaudí Awards ( ca, Premis Gaudí) are the main film awards of Catalonia, celebrated annually in Barcelona. The awards were established in 2009 by the Catalan Film Academy as a continuation and expansion of the Barcelona Cinema Awards (''Premi ...

** Grand Prize at the 2008 Split International Film Festival ** Grand Prize at the 2008 Entrevues Belfort film festival * ''

'' (2013) **

Golden Leopard The Golden Leopard () is the top prize at the Locarno International Film Festival, an international film festival held annually in Locarno, Switzerland since 1946. Directors in the process of getting an international reputation are allowed to be ...

at the

Locarno International Film Festival The Locarno Film Festival is an annual film festival, held every August in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative, documentary, s ...

** Silver Puma for Best Director at the 2014 UNAM International Film Festival (FICUNAM) ** Best wardrobe at the 2014

* ''The Death of Louis XIV'' (2016) **

Cannes Film Festival The Cannes Festival (; french: link=no, Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (') and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films ...

– Official Selection **

Toronto International Film Festival The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, attracting over 480,000 people annually. Since its founding in 1976, TIFF has grown to become a perman ...

– Official Selection **

New York Film Festival The New York Film Festival (NYFF) is a film festival held every fall in New York City, presented by Film at Lincoln Center (FLC). Founded in 1963 by Richard Roud and Amos Vogel with the support of Lincoln Center president William Schuman, i ...

– Official Selection ** Winner in feature film category, 2016

Prix Jean Vigo The Prix Jean Vigo is an award in the Cinema of France given annually since 1951 to a French film director in homage to Jean Vigo. It was founded by French writer Claude Aveline. Since 1960, the award is given to a director of a feature film and ...

** Best International Film at the 2016

Jerusalem Film Festival The Jerusalem Film Festival ( he, פסטיבל הקולנוע ירושלים, ar, مهرجان القدس السينمائي) is an international film festival held annually in Jerusalem, It was established in 1984 by the Director of the Jerusal ...

"And the JFF 2016 Winners are..."
Jerusalem Film Festival website. Retrieved 2016-09-03. * etc.

Selected filmography

The following is a list of some of his feature films or contributions to feature films.

References

External links

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Albert Serra on Facebook

Undergraun Films on Facebook
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Harvard Film Archives. Retrieved 2016-09-03.
"Albert Serra: Divine Visionaries and Holy Fools"

Tate Modern Tate Modern is an art gallery located in London. It houses the United Kingdom's national collection of international modern and contemporary art, and forms part of the Tate group together with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It ...

. Retrieved 2016-09-03.
"Locarno Film Festival Review: Dracula Meets Casanova In Albert Serra's Bizarrely Fascinating ‘The Story of My Death’"
by Eric Kohn, ''IndieWire'', 13 August 2013. {{DEFAULTSORT:Serra, Albert 1975 births Living people Spanish film directors People from Girona