director of the film 'The Fifth Season'
Film director, university professor, and a kind of explorer, Giuseppe Carrieri looks for cinema where the map seems to end: among forgotten lives, wounded geographies, invisible communities and stories that rarely find a place in the light.
His work moves through the cinema of reality, but often crosses its borders, searching for a form in which documentary observation can meet fable, memory and poetic vision.
In 2013, with “In Utero Srebrenica” he followed Bosnian mothers searching for the remains of their sons twenty years after the genocide. The film earned him a David di Donatello nomination for Best Documentary Feature and received numerous international awards.
In 2017, with “Hanaa”, he explored the world of early marriage through a journey across India, Syria, Peru and Nigeria. With “Le Metamorfosi” (“The Metamorphoses”), set in his hometown Naples, he began to experiment with the form of the docu-fable.
Since 2018, he has been Professor of Film Directing at IULM University in Milan, where he teaches cinema as an act of attention, encounter and transformation. In 2025, he directed “La quinta stagione” (“The Fifth Season”), selected for “Giornate degli Autori”, an independent section of the Venice International Film Festival. He also collaborates with national and international television broadcasters.
