Davide Ferrario
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- May 26, 1956
- Birthplace
- Casalmaggiore, Cremona, Lombardy, Italy
Davide Ferrario (born 26 June 1956) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and author. Born in Casalmaggiore, Cremona, Ferrario graduated in Anglo-American literature, then he began to work in film distribution, and he contributed to import in Italy many indie films by John Sayles, Jim Jarmusch, Susan Seidelman, Godfrey Reggio. He also collaborated as a film critic with the cinema magazine Cineforum, and he wrote a monograph about Rainer Werner Fassbinder. After collaborating to several screenplays, Ferrario made his directorial debut in 1987 with the short film Non date da mangiare agli animali, and in 1989 he directed his first feature film, the neo-noir The End of the Night. His 2004 film After Midnight entered the Forum section at the 54th Berlin International Film Festival, in which Ferrario won the Caligari Film Prize and the Don Quixote Award. Also a novelist, his 1995 debut novel Dissolvenza al nero was later adapted into a film, Fade to Black by Oliver Parker.
Filmography
Behind a Portrait. The Italian Treasures from Accademia Carrara 2025
Producer, Screenplay, Director
Italo Calvino nelle città 2024
Director, Story, Writer
Zamora 2024
as Portiere
Umberto Eco: A Library of the World 2023
Producer, Writer, Director
A guardia di una fede 2023
Producer
Boys 2021
Screenplay, Director
Handbook of Movie Theaters' History 2021
Producer
Blood on the Crown 2021
Director
Torino 20venti - Storie da un altro mondo 2020
as Himself
Nuovo cinema paralitico 2020
Writer, Editor, Director, Producer
Star stuff 2019
Producer
Cento anni 2017
Screenplay, Producer, Director
Sexxx 2015
Producer, Director
La zuppa del demonio 2014
Screenplay, Producer, Director
La luna su Torino 2014
Writer, Producer, Director
Venice 70: Future Reloaded 2013
Director
Piazza Garibaldi 2011
Producer, Writer, Director
Tutta colpa di Giuda 2009
Writer, Producer, Director
Primo Levi's Journey 2006
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Fade to Black 2006
Novel
Se devo essere sincera 2004
Director
After Midnight 2004
Producer, Writer, Director
Mondonuovo 2003
as Himself, Director, Writer
- Le strade di Genova
Le strade di Genova 2002
Director, Editor
I-TIGI a Gibellina - Racconto per Ustica 2000
Director
Guardami 1999
Director, Writer
In principio erano le mutande 1999
Screenplay
- Homo Cinematographicus
Homo Cinematographicus 1998
as Self
Children of Hannibal 1998
Story, Screenplay, Director
Sul 45° parallelo 1997
Director
We All Fall Down 1997
Screenplay, Director
Partigiani 1997
Director
Materiale resistente 1995
Producer, Director
Love Burns 1994
Director, Writer
La fine della notte 1989
as Reporter, Screenplay, Story, Director
Matewan 1987
as Gianni, Dialogue Coach
Credits from TMDB.