Acclaimed Italian Filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher Honored with European Achievement Award

On January 17, 2026, the European Film Academy will honor acclaimed Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher with the prestigious European Achievement in World Cinema Award at the 38th European Film Awards ceremony in Berlin. The award recognizes Rohrwacher's significant contributions to world cinema and her long-standing collaboration with producer Carlo Cresto-Dina and his production company tempesta, which has produced all of her feature films.

In announcing the award, the Academy praised Rohrwacher "for her unusual and inspiring body of work," highlighting her "careful eye for the realities of a teenager's life and a big heart for the countryside." The Academy also celebrated Rohrwacher as "one of contemporary cinema's most distinctive voices worldwide."

Born in Tuscany, Rohrwacher studied literature and philosophy in Turin and documentary filmmaking in Lisbon. Her debut feature, Corpo Celeste, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011 and was nominated for the Italian David di Donatello Awards. Rohrwacher went on to return to Cannes with her subsequent films, The Wonders (2014), which won the Grand Jury Prize, and Happy as Lazzaro (2018), which earned the award for Best Screenplay and received multiple international nominations, including for the European Film Awards and the David di Donatello Awards.

Rohrwacher's most recent work includes the collaborative documentary Futura (2021), which captures the views of Italian teenagers, and the 2023 film La Chimera, which follows a group of grave robbers dealing in Etruscan antiquities. Starring Josh O'Connor, Alba Rohrwacher, and Isabella Rossellini, La Chimera premiered at Cannes and received multiple international nominations, including a win for production design at the European Film Awards.