Italian director, screenwriter and producer Marco Bellocchio is to be given an honorary award at the 53rd edition of documentary festival Visions du Réel, taking place in Nyon, Switzerland, from April 7-17.
Bellocchio is attending the festival in person as the guest of honour, and the tributes to the filmmaker will include a masterclass with Bellocchio and a retrospective of around 10 selected works, plus a screening of his latest project, Cannes premiere Marx Can Wait, about his twin brother’s suicide.
Bellocchio was born in northern Italy on the eve of the Second World War, and has directed over 50 films, working across both fiction and non-fiction. He directed his first feature film in 1965, Fists In The Pocket, which was shot in his family home. Later titles including 1980’s A Leap In The Dark, for which stars Michel Piccoli and Anouk Aimée both won acting prizes at Cannes. He received an honorary Palme d’Or in Cannes in 2021.
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