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Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher is to receive the European Achievement In World Cinema Award at the 38th European Film Awards in January.
Rohrwacher’s most recent release was La Chimera starring Josh O’Connor, which played in competition in Cannes in 2023.
Her 2018 film Happy As Lazzaro also ran in competition at Cannes, winning best screenplay. Rohrwacher’s credits also include her 2011 debut Heavenly Body (Corpo Celeste) which played in Cannes’ Directors Fortnight, 2014 Cannes Grand Jury prize winner The Wonders and 2021’s Futura.
The European Film Academy said it was honouring Rohrwacher for her “unusual and inspiring” body of work.
“With a careful eye for the realities of a teenager’s life and a big heart for the countryside, she creates a unique universe for each of her films. Following the characters along their path with great sensitivity, she leaves space for all the quirky, unexpected and poetic little details. Because of all of that, Alice Rohrwacher is one of contemporary cinema’s most distinctive voices worldwide,” said the Academy.
Born in Tuscany, Rohrwacher graduated from the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy in Turin and from the documentary school in Lisbon, Portugal.
The Academy said the award also pays tribute to her longstanding collaboration with producer Carlo Cresto-Dina and his production company tempesta, which has produced all of Rohrwacher’s features to date.
Rohrwacher and tempesta will be honorary guests at the 38th European Film Awards Ceremony, which takes place on January 17 in Berlin.
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