Albert Serra (1975) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and editor. His films usually depict European myths and literature. Honor de cavalleria was selected by Cahiers du Cinéma as one of the ten best films of 2007. In 2013, a retrospective of Serra’s work was screened at the Centre Pompidou. For Història de la meva mort, Serra was awarded the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival in 2013. For La mort de Louis XIV, Serra received the Prix Jean Vigo in 2016. Liberté received the Un Certain Regard – Special Jury Prize in Cannes 2019. Selected for IFFR 2023, Pacifiction was nominated for the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival in 2022.
In April 2023 #Soggettiva investigates the complexity of the body of work of the Spanish director Albert Serra. The filmmaker joined a talk with Paolo Moretti on the occasion of his latest film’s screening Pacifiction, confirming the author as one of the most cultured and original filmmakers in the European film world. After rereading famous books from the past and producing his trilogy on 18th-century France, with Pacifiction Serra finds himself back in the contemporary world with a return to the subject of ‘rulers’ and the relations between the government and local population set in an idyllic microcosm.
