Matteo Giampetruzzi
Directing
Known For

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Catene

An home movie documentary about a young man with a camera who tries to recount and reframe a pivotal moment in his childhood: the death of his mother. An intimate and personal story about what remains of that mother-son relationship, now marked by an unbridgeable distance and an absence with which it is necessary to come to terms.
Something about Mamma

During a scorching summer in the mountains of southern Italy, young, shy Luca develops an attraction for Valerio, an older boy with a passion for motorcycles. The two meet in secret, in the quiet of the countryside just outside the small town where they live. Chasing a desire that slowly escalates into obsession, Luca is forced to come to terms with the blurred boundary between pleasure and violence.
The Motorcycle

It's Serena's wedding day. The girl is worried about the absence of Nicola, her brother. Turns out she doesn't know that this day, which is so important to Serena, is probably not so joyful for Nicola.
Blessed Are the Pure in Heart

Starting from archival images (from different eras and formats) of the San Francisco neighborhood in Bilbao — its streets, nightlife, clubs, and discos that no longer exist — this film essay explores the idea of a queer space. It invites a perhaps utopian journey through places of sexual dissidence, sketching a history of cruising and gay desire in the city.
All Possible Neighborhoods

Paolo is a 22-year-old boy and experiences a constant sense of inadequacy and ineptitude, due to his complex relationship with his mother, unaware of his homosexuality, and to the conflict he has with his hometown, Lanciano. Driven by a great desire for emancipation, he decides not to give up and to interview those who have remained in the province and continue to fight just like him.
Edges

In 1986, Derek Jarman created a therapeutic garden in Dungeness—a space for care, healing, and resilience following his diagnosis.
guarda il sole, amore mio

A conversation on a dating app alternates with images of a body. Maybe it's just a preparation for an erotic encounter.
Intimacy
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