Andrea Di Stefano
Andrea DI STEFANO (1972, Italy) is an Italian actor and film director. He studied acting in New York City at the Actors Studio and worked extensively as an actor in European and international cinema before moving into directing. As a filmmaker, Di Stefano works primarily in genre-driven narrative cinema, often adapting literary material and focusing on crime, psychological tension and moral ambiguity. His directing practice has developed alongside international co-productions and mainstream distribution contexts.
Filmography
Escobar: Paradise Lost (2014), The Informer (2019), Last Night of Amore/L’ultima notte di Amore (2023), My Tennis Maestro/Il maestro (2025)
Andrea Di Stefano at IFFR
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Il Maestro
Andrea Di Stefano | 125' | Italy | Dutch Premiere
Against the backdrop of sunsoaked 1980s Italy, a teenage tennis prodigy strikes an unlikely friendship. -
Before Night Falls
Julian Schnabel | 125' | USA | -
Exuberant and sensitive portrait of the forbidden life in Havana of the homosexual writer Reinaldo Arenas. Strong feature by the famous painter Schnab