Carlo Chatrian is an Italian journalist and the artistic director of the

Berlin International Film Festival The Berlin International Film Festival (german: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale (), is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festi ...

(Berlinale).

Biography

Carlo Chatrian graduated in Literature and Philosophy from

Turin University The University of Turin (Italian language, Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Torino'', UNITO) is a public university, public research university in the city of Turin, in the Piedmont (Italy), Piedmont region of Italy. It is one of the List ...

in 1994. As a film critic he works regularly for the magazines Filmcritica, Duellanti, Cineforum and is director of Panoramiques. As a programmer and curator Carlo Chatrian worked with various festivals and film institutions:
– Museo nazionale del Cinema,

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(1994)
– Filmmaker Doc,

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard language, Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the List of cities in Italy, second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 ...

(1995–2005)
–

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International Film Festival (Deputy Director 2001–2007)
– Courmayeur Noir Film Festival (Curator section Doc Noir 2002–2010)
–

Locarno 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 ...

(Artistic Director 2012–2018, Member of the selection committee 2006–2009, Curator retrospective since 2008)
– Festival dei Popoli,

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(Member of the selection committee since 2008, Head of selection since 2011)
– Cinéma du réel, Paris (2010)
–

Swiss Film Archive The Swiss Film Archive (French: ''Cinémathèque suisse'', German: ''Schweizer Filmarchiv'') is a Swiss state-approved noncommercial foundation based in Lausanne. Its aims are to collect, protect, study and present film archives.Lausanne Lausanne ( , , , ) ; it, Losanna; rm, Losanna. is the capital and largest city of the Swiss French speaking canton of Vaud. It is a hilly city situated on the shores of Lake Geneva, about halfway between the Jura Mountains and the Alps, and fac ...

(Advisor since 2010)
–

Visions du Réel Visions du Réel (Visions of Reality) is an internationally renowned documentary film festival held in April each year in Nyon, Switzerland. Established in 1969 as the Nyon International Documentary Film Festival, the event adopted its current n ...

, Nyon (Programmer since 2011)
– Foundation Film Commission

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(Director since 2011). On September 4, 2012, Carlo Chatrian was nominated artistic director at the Festival del film Locarno. In June 2018, he was named as the new artistic director of the

(Berlinale), to assume this position in 2020 in collaboration with

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as executive director.

Bibliography

Chatrian has published numerous monographs on filmmakers such as Wong Kar Wai, Johan van der Keuken,

Frederick Wiseman Frederick Wiseman (born January 1, 1930) is an American filmmaker, documentarian, and theater director. His work is "devoted primarily to exploring American institutions". He has been called "one of the most important and original filmmakers worki ...

Errol Morris Errol Mark Morris (born February 5, 1948) is an American film director known for documentaries that interrogate the epistemology of its subjects. In 2003, his documentary film '' The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamar ...

Maurizio Nichetti Maurizio Nichetti (born 8 May 1948) is an Italian film screenwriter, actor and director. His 1989 film '' The Icicle Thief'' won the Golden St. George at the 16th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1998 he was a member of the jury at the 48t ...

and

Nanni Moretti Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti (; born 19 August 1953) is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. His films have won accolades including a Palme d'Or at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival for '' The Son's Room'', a Silver Bear at th ...

; he wrote several essays for magazines and film publications. Selection of publications: *Alovisio, Silvio / Chatrian, Carlo (1997): ''Le ceneri del tempo. Il cinema di Wong Kar Wai''. TraccEdizioni, Piombino. *Brianzoli, Giorgia / Chatrian, Carlo (1999): ''Il mulino delle immagini''. GS Editrice, Santhia. *Brianzoli, Giorgia / Chatrian, Carlo / Mosso, Luca (2000): ''Paesaggi umani''. Filmmaker Editrice, Milano. *Chatrian, Carlo / Mosso, Luca (2002): ''In prima persona. Il cinema di Errol Morris''. Il castoro, Milano. *Barisone, Luciano / Chatrian, Carlo / Nazzaro, Giona A. (2003): ''Io, un altro''. Effata Edizioni, Cantalupa. *Barisone, Luciano / Chatrian, Carlo (2003): ''Nicolas Philibert''. Effata Edizioni, Cantalupa. *Causo, Massimo / Chatrian, Carlo (2005): ''Maurizio Nichetti''. Effata Edizioni, Cantalupa. *Chatrian, Carlo / Renzi, Eugenio (2008): ''Nanni Moretti. Entretiens''. Cahiers du Cinéma. *Chatrian, Carlo / Persico, Daniela (2008): ''Claire Simon''. Milano. *Chatrian, Carlo / Paganelli, Grazia (2010): ''Manga Impact''. Phaidon, London.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chatrian, Carlo 1971 births Italian film critics Italian journalists Italian male journalists Italian male writers Living people Locarno Festival University of Turin alumni