Federico Barni

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Federico is an Italian filmmaker based between London and Milan. His work is influenced by his biology and anthropology studies (UCL, Imperial College) and often evokes science fictional, unsettling versions of reality. His films, including Arctic Diva (2024), Orchard (2023), Asha (2021) and Under the North Sea (2020) have participated in international film festivals including DocLisboa, Clermont-Ferrand, Torino Film Festival, Glasgow Short Film Festival and LIDF. His art films and collaborations with artists and musicians have also been shown in galleries and institutions including the South London Gallery, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Cryptic Glasgow, Wilhelm Hack Museum and on platforms such as Nowness and FACT. He also has years of experience editing documentary, fashion and art films. Federico has also been developing a feature-length eco-thriller set in Sardinia, ‘Enclave’, which won the Milan Film Network’s In Progress second prize at Venice Film Festival 2022 under Michelangelo Frammartino’s supervision.

11-08-1992

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11-08-1992

Birthday

Leo

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Total Films

Also Known As (male)

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Arctic Diva

An up-and-coming, experimental musician is invited to perform at a remote arctic research outpost for the resident scientists, an unwelcoming world which tests her resolve but expands her audience beyond the atmosphere.

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2025

Arctic Diva

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2025

Orchard

Two mining surveyors roam a Welsh forest in search of an abandoned gold mine. As the tensions between them simmer, an unexpected radio signal from the underground lures them into the earth.

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2023

Asha

Following an unsuccessful excavation, a zealous archaeologist and her fieldwork-trained dog decide to follow the trail of one last scent, beginning a journey through mysterious underground structures in the British countryside; relics from the Iron Age and remnants of the mining industry.

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2021

Elephant Food Is for the Strongest Teeth

In Kano City, Northern Nigeria, crowds gather to watch local heroes face off in the ancient Hausa martial art of Dambe. Part battle, part dance, part live mythology, it’s a cultural tradition that has survived and thrived in the region, despite invasion, famine, British colonialism and attacks by Boko Haram. In Dambe’s lightning-fast bouts, against a hypnotic soundtrack of live drumming and improvised praise songs, conflicts erupt, rivalries are formed and legends are made.

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2021

Robert Downey: Moment to Moment

To pay tribute to one of his filmmaking heroes, Sean Price Willams adopts a style that’s just as out there as his subject, mixing new material and never-before-seen archival footage in this portrait of the underground film titan Robert Downey (A Prince).

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2021

Under the North Sea

One kilometre underneath the cliffs of North Yorkshire, two very different tribes come face to face everyday. Since the late 80s, when the deepest dark matter research laboratory in the UK was built in the salt mine at Boulby, miners and research scientists have been working side by side in the underground network. In the darkness of this extreme environment, a young woman finds a new future. Scored with a soundtrack made entirely from underground recordings, this sensorial mosaic reveals a fragile equilibrium, a dimension in which utopian and dystopian futures coexist.

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2020

Survivor's Guilt

A tragicomedy sci-ﬁ about a young man suﬀering from PTSD who watches a commercial selling a SLOG tea that claims to cure PTSD.

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2020