The films of Mattia Colombo
Mattia Colombo is an Italian filmmaker born in 1982. He studied painting at the Florence Academy of Fine Arts in 2007 and documentary filmmaking at the IED in Venice in 2009. His first short documentary Il Velo (2009), an enchanting tale about a small community of nuns, was selected for several international festivals. His next film, Il Pensiero della mano (2012), is a visual poem about artisans, passion and the future of work. He then shot Il Desiderio, an experiment that was conceived, filmed and edited in five days, during a workshop with director Michelangelo Frammartino. In 2015, he directed Trees that Walk, followed by I Wanna Sleep with You, which premiered at the Cinéma du Réel Festival in Paris. In 2023, he co-directed Pure Unknown with Valentina Cicogna, presented at RIDM.
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Il passo
Gabriele is thirteen and has a strong will to prove himself. He chooses to spend the summer in the mountains to look after cattle and returns home a new person. Dotted with feats of strength and unexpected moments of tenderness, _Il passo_ is an unusual coming-to-age story, set in a world bound to disappear.
I Wanna Sleep with You
_I Want to Sleep with You_ is a private film, like a diary or a conversation overheard by chance, in which five couples lay themselves bare to share their most intimate experiences, to tell what love is today, what variations it offers and what compromises it imposes to overcome the risk of loneliness.
A Steady Job
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Each month, a multitude of nurses from the South of Italy cross the country to try their luck in an open competition in the great cities of the North. There are just few positions for the thousands of candidates. The majority of them try several times a year. To save money, they travel at night on a bus that drops them off at dawn at the exam site. Each of them has her own story, her own hopes ...
Il passo
Gabriele is thirteen and has a strong will to prove himself. He chooses to spend the summer in the mountains to look after cattle and returns home a new person. Dotted with feats of strength and unexpected moments of tenderness, _Il passo_ is an unusual coming-to-age story, set in a world bound to disappear.
I Wanna Sleep with You
_I Want to Sleep with You_ is a private film, like a diary or a conversation overheard by chance, in which five couples lay themselves bare to share their most intimate experiences, to tell what love is today, what variations it offers and what compromises it imposes to overcome the risk of loneliness.
A Steady Job
Subscription access
Each month, a multitude of nurses from the South of Italy cross the country to try their luck in an open competition in the great cities of the North. There are just few positions for the thousands of candidates. The majority of them try several times a year. To save money, they travel at night on a bus that drops them off at dawn at the exam site. Each of them has her own story, her own hopes ...
