Yuri Ancarani is an Italian video artist and film maker. His works come from a continuous mingling of documentary cinema and contemporary art, and are the result of a research aimed to explore regions which are not very visibile in the daily life, realities in which the artist delves in first person.

His works have been shown at national and international museums and exhibitions, such as: Fondazione Sandretto, Re Rebaudengo (Torino, Italy), MAXXI, Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo (Rome, Italy), R. Solomon Guggenheim Museum (New York, USA), Prague Biennal 5 (Prague, Poland), XIV Biennale Internazionale di Scultura (Carrara, Italy), 14 Media Art Biennale Wro (Wroklav, Poland), ZERO...gallery (Milan, Italy), T.I.C.A. Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art (Tirana, Albany).

And at several film festivals: 67th and 68th Venice Film Festival (Venice, Italy), IFFR International Film Festival Rotterdam (Rotterdam, The Netherlands), 23rd IDFA International Documentary Film Festival (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Hot Docs, Canadian International Documentary Festival (Toronto, Canada), Cinéma du Réel (Centre Pompidou, Paris, France), SXSW- South by Southwest (Houston, Texas), Full Frame Documentary Festival (Dhuram, USA), 4th Ann Arbor Film Festival (Michigan, USA), True/False Film Festival (Columbia, Missouri).

He has also won several awards such as: Talent Prize 2012, nomination per "Nonfiction feature filmaking", Cinema Eye Honors (Museum of Moving Image, New York, USA); "Grand Prix in Lab Competition", Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival (Clermont-Ferrand, France); "Honorable Mention", Dokufest (Prizren, Kosovo); "Best documentary", New Horizon I.F.F. (Wroclaw, Poland); "Best Short", L' alternativa- Barcelona Independent Film Festival (Barcelona, Spain).

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