Francesca Bertin (Italy, 1985) is a film director and visual artist. In her artistic practice, she focuses on the themes of identity, memory, and space. Through the documentary approach, she creates observations and audiovisual interpretations of architecture and landscape with which her protagonists connect.

Francesca holds a M.A. in Film at the Academy of Fine Art in Hamburg (2021) and a M.A. in Law at the University of Trento (2011). She participated in the Professional Media Master Class in Halle (Saale) in 2014. Her films were shown and awarded in various international festivals.

Francesca is part of the selection committee of the film festival Dokumentarfilmwoche Hamburg. She lives and works in Hamburg and is a resident in the Künstler:innenhaus Vorwerk-Stift.

Festivals/Screening/Exhibition

2023
Sungai, Sang I - Sonic Performance, Artist-in-Residence INDEKS Artist-space in Bandung (West Java, Indonesien).
TARA
Cinema du Reel, Paris
Dokumentarfilmwoche Hamburg
Pordenone Film fest
Crossing Europe, Linz
Agora Doc market c/o Thessaloniki
Purnama Filmfestival Bandung (West Java)
Euganea Film Festival
Cinemambiente - Environmental Film Festival - Museo nazionale del cinema, Torino
CineMAS - The Independent Film Festival Abu Dhabi UAE
Festival Mente Locale - Visioni sul territorio, Emilia Romagna
Screening in selected cinema in Germany and Italy (Berlin, München, Köln, Hannover, Napoli, Taranto, ..)


2022
TARA 
Vision du Réel, Nyon
Filmkunstfest Schwerin
Underdox Filmfestival München
Festival Close up - Ville, Architecture et Paysage au Cinema, Paris
L'ARTIFICIO
Revolution film festival, Berlin
Open Spaces - Rudnik Festival of innovative Cinema, Rudnik (Serbia)
High Coast Film festival, Mannaminne (Sweden)


2021
DER AUFTRITT
Kunstraum.mpeg, Leipzig
GHM BLEIBT OFFEN
Galerie 21, Hamburg
VERSCHWINDEN/1
Art Off - Frappant, Hamburg
L'ARTIFICIO
Dokumentarfilmwoche Hamburg
Lago Film Fest (Revine Lago)
Go short international short film festival Nijmegen (Holland)

2020
VERSCHWINDEN/1
Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf Museum in Villa Oppenheim (Berlin)
L'ARTIFICIO
14. Istanbul International Architecture and Urban Films Festival (Turkey)
37. Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival (Golden Key award for the best documentary short)
33. Exground filmfest Wiesbaden
36. Short film festival Hamburg
67. International short film festival Oberhausen

2019
WE REFUGEE/On line archive
On-line launch
IL GIARDINO
14. Lago film fest, Revine di Lago (TV)
4. Working title film festival, Vicenza

2018
IL GIARDINO
34. Short film festival Hamburg
33. DOK.fest München - Student Award
CADONO PIETRE
Screening “Documentari km0”, Valsamoggia (BO, Italien).
Screening “Ignoti alla città”, Bitonto (BA, Italy)
HINTER DEM WALD
Screening in Cinéma Oblò, Lausanne (Switzerland)

2017
ZINGONIA, LA CITTA’ DEL FUTURO
Annual exhibition Academy of Visual Arts Hamburg (HFBK), Hamburg

2016
HINTER DEM WALD
60. BFI London Film Festival
26. Bamberger Kurzfilmtage
Go Short International Short Film Festival, Nijmegen (Holland)
13. Mitteldeutsches Kurzfilmfestival KURZSUECHTIG, Leipzig
28. Filmfest Dresden
11. Lago film fest, Revine di Lago (Italy)

2015
HINTER DEM WALD
Nominated for the German short film Award (Category Documentary film)
31th Short film festival Hamburg
Bundesfestival video, Halle
Neue Heimat Filmfestival, Kempelnow
DokumentART, Neubrandeburg
Interfilm International short film festival, Berlin
DER AUFTRITT
Dok Leipzig
Screening in Cinémathèque Leipzig e.V.

2014
CADONO PIETRE
30. Short film festival Hamburg
Silhouette Festival, Paris
Grande Filiale, Speyer
Antarctis Film Festival (Antarctica)
I AM HERE
Internationale Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg
Go Short International Short Film Festival, Nijmegen (Holland)

2013
I AM HERE
29. Short film festival Hamburg
21. Curtas Vila do Conde (Portugal)