Francesca Archibugi

Born in Rome in 1960, she graduated at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. In 1988 she directed her first feature film MIGNON HAS COME TO STAY (1988), story of the young Mignon. In her next film TOWARDS EVENING (1990), we find two fighting adult characters: an old communist professor and his young daughter in law. Between them the little Papere, four years old. The reflections about childhood will be more complete in the film THE GREAT PUMPKIN (1993), inspired by “Una concretissima utopia”, by the psychiatrist Marco Lombardo Radice. The film is set in an neuropsychiatric institute for children where Pippi, a girl with epileptic crisis, is hospitalized. Among Francesca’s other films we remember SHOOTING THE MOON (1998), with another young protagonist who has to deal with a drug addicted mother.