Former Berlinale Boss Carlo Chatrian Named Head Of Italy’s National Cinema Museum
deadline.comItaly’s National Cinema Museum in the northern city of Turin has named former Berlin Film Festival head Carlo Chatrian as its new director.
Chatrian will be in post for five years. Chatrian replaces Domenico De Gaetano. The museum’s management committee thanked De Gaetano in a statement this afternoon for leading the institution during recent “complex years” and “succeeding in the enterprise of increasing visitors and making it an attractive cultural center of international standing, opening it to the new languages of cinema.” The committee said the decision to hire Chatrian was “unanimous.” Chatrian, a Turin native, began his cinema career as a writer and journalist.
He has been a programmer and consultant for various institutions including the National Cinema Museum in Turin, Filmmaker Doc in Milan, Alba International Film Festival (of which he was also deputy director), Courmayeur Noir in Festival, Festival dei popoli in Florence, Cinéma du Réel in Paris, Cinémathèque suisse in Lausanne, and Visions du Réel in Nyon.
From 2012 to 2018, he was the artistic director of the Locarno Film Festival, and from 2020 to 2024 artistic director of the Berlin Film Festival.
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