The film, which premiered and won three awards at Venice Film Festival before screening at Toronto Film Festival, New York Film Festival and BFI London Film Festival,is theItalian entryfrom the Academy Awards 2021 and nominated for Best International
Feature at the BIFA awards and is the latest work from
Gianfranco Rosi, the filmmaker behind the Berlin Golden Bear winning film FIRE AT SEA.
Notturno was shot over the past three years along the borders of Iraq,
Kurdistan, Syria, and Lebanon. A region where tyranny, invasions and
terrorism have fed off each other in a vicious circle, to the detriment of
the civilian populations. All around signs of violence and destruction: but
in the foreground is the humanity that reawakens every day from a nocturne
that seems infinite. “Notturno”, a film of light on the darkness of war.
