Albert Serra

Born in Banyoles in 1975, Albert Serra is a Catalan artist and director. Having studied philosophy and literature, he wrote plays and produced different video works. He gained an international recognition with his first long feature, Honor de Cavalleria, a free adaptation of Don Quijote played by non-professional actors from his village. The film was presented at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight in 2006. For his second film, Birdsong, Serra took inspiration in a traditional Catalan Christmas song, El cant dels ocells, and worked with the same group of people to tell the story of the Three Wise Men who golled their guiding star to Jesus. In 2013, the Centre Pompidou in Paris gave him a carte blanche in his correspondence with the Argentinian director Lisandro Alonso. The same year he received the golden leopard in Locarno for his new film Story of my Death, inspired by Casanova’s memoirs. The Death of Louis XIV, his new film starring Jean-Pierre Léaud as the Sun King, is presented in the Official Selection of Cannes Film Festival 2016.

FESTIVALS


Cannes 2016 – Special screenings
Taipei Film Festival 2016
Munich Film Festival 2016
New Zealand Film Festival 2016
Jerusalem Film Festival 2016
New Horizon Film Festival 2016
Melbourne Film Festival 2016


FILMOGRAPHY


The Death of Louis XIV (2016): Cannes Film Festival – Official Selection
Story of my Death (2013): Festival del Film Locarno – Golden Leopard
Les noms du Christ (2011)
Birdsong (2008): Cannes Directors’ Fortnight
Honor de Cavalleria (2006): Viennale Directors Fortnight 2006 – Fipresci prize, Torino Film Festival 2006 – Best Film, Belfort Entrevues – Grand prize


SHORTS


Cuba Libre (short, 2013)
Le Seigneur a fait pour moi des merveilles (short, 2011)
Lectura d’un poema (short, 2010)
Bauca (short, 2009)
L’alto Arrigo (short, 2008)Russia (short, 2007)
Sant Pere de Rodes (short, 2006)
Super 8 (short, 2006), co-directed with Christophe Farnarier
Crespia (short, 2003)