Alessio Rigo de Righi
Alessio RIGO DE RIGHI and Matteo ZOPPIS (b. 1986) are two Italian-American directors. Their collaboration started with the short documentary Belva Nera and the award-winning documentary Il Solengo. Their work focuses on folk tales and legends of the peasant tradition and on the incomplete and imperfect mechanism of oral tradition that ends up giving rise to new stories.
Their films have been featured in numerous festivals like IFFR, Göteborg, Art of the Real in New York, Viennale, BAFICI, RIDM São Paulo, and won awards at Cinéma du Réel, Doclisboa and Torino Film Festival.
The Tale of King Crab was their first fiction feature film.
Filmography
Henry’s Love (2008, short), Catedral (2009, short doc), La gracia del mar (2010, short), Black Beast (2013, short doc co-dir), Il solengo (2015, doc, co-dir), Re Granchio (2021)
Alessio Rigo de Righi at IFFR
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Testa o croce?
After killing her husband, Rosa runs away together with her sweetheart, cowboy Billi. Wrongly accused of the murder, he ends up with a price on his
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Los territorios
After the attack on Charlie Hebdo, Ivan, a young film producer and self-proclaimed “frivolous” son of a prominent Argentine journalist,
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Il solengo
A ‘solengo’ is a wild pig living a life of solitude and also the nickname of Mario de Marcella, a wild man living in the hills north of