La Chimera, Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher’s lyrical film revolves around a singular, fascinating community, one that’s seldom talked about, especially outside Italy.
The tombaroli, illegal grave-robbers who dig up Etruscan relics and make their money selling those antiquities on to fences, who in turn sell them to museums and collectors for vastly larger sums.
A regular presence in Cannes Fest, Rohrwacher’s first feature, Corpo Celeste world premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight at the 2011 edition. Rohrwacher then directed Le Meraviglie (The Wonders), winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2014 Cannes Film Fest.
Born in 1981 in Fiesole, she studied in Turin and Lisbon. She has worked in music and documentary projects, as well as an editor and composer for theatre.
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