Tribute to Fabrizio Gifuni

Film. Theater. Television. Audiobooks. Fabrizio Gifuni’s artistic career spans many directions, revealing the Roman actor’s ongoing ability to reinvent himself and to consistently bring to the forefront – on stage, on the big and small screens, and in his readings – issues and characters from the past or present that challenge us and are rooted in a civic commitment that must never waver.

Job Film Days 2026 is dedicating a tribute to Fabrizio Gifuni (Saturday, October 10, at Cinema Massimo, Theater 3) in collaboration with the National Cinema Museum of Turin and the Fondazione Teatro Piemonte Europa. Two events are scheduled: at 5:00 p.m., the actor will lead a masterclass conducted by Grazia Paganelli; followed at 7:00 p.m. by a screening of Prima che la notte – an unmissable opportunity to see in theaters a 2018 film originally made for television, directed by Daniele Vicari and starring Gifuni as the Sicilian journalist Giuseppe Fava, who was killed by the Cosa Nostra in 1984.

The masterclass will focus on the actor’s craft and on the actor at work. Gifuni (born in Rome in 1966) began his career in the early 1990s, shortly after graduating in 1992 from the “Silvio d’Amico” National Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome. Initially, he divided his time between the stage and film sets, while in the following decade he began his television career. He has played countless memorable roles over more than thirty years of acting, during which time Gifuni has received the most prestigious awards.

Among his theatrical works are the two plays ‘Na specie de cadavere lunghissimo and L’ingegner Gadda va alla guerra – both directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci – and I fantasmi della nostra Storia, a diptych dedicated to the lives of Aldo Moro (Con il vostro irridente silenzio) and Pier Paolo Pasolini (Il male dei ricci), which he also directed. In film and television, he has collaborated with the most prominent Italian directors, including Gianni Amelio, Marco Tullio Giordana, Liliana Cavani, Giuseppe Bertolucci, Paolo Virzì, Pupi Avati, Daniele Vicari, Sergio Rubini, and Francesca Comencini. His longest collaboration was with Marco Bellocchio: Fai bei sogni, Esterno notte, Rapito, Se posso permettermi, and Portobello. He has brought to life numerous figures from Italian history, from Franco Basaglia to Alcide De Gasperi, from Giuseppe Fava to Aldo Moro, and from Luigi Comencini to Enzo Tortora.