
Directing
Nicola Sorcinelli
Born
1988-01-26 (38)
Known for
Directing
Credits
9 titles
Nicola Sorcinelli is an Italian filmmaker. After working on film sets as a behind-the-scenes filmmaker and Assistant Director, he began directing his own films. His short films have screened and won awards at festivals around the world, including Academy Award-qualifying festivals. His recent works include Moby Dick, winner of the Nastro d’Argento (Italian Film Critics Award), and Ape Regina, a short film made in collaboration with the NGO Emergency. He later directed La Confessione, which was nominated in the same year for both the David di Donatello (Italy’s Academy Awards) and the Nastri d’Argento. Following a venture into major television series, he wrote and directed his first feature f…
Known for
6.9Music has been banned in Afghanistan, and now an orchestra conductor and his son, a tuba player, attempt to start over by emigrating along the Balkan route. During their flight, seemingly endless, they cross paths with an Italian woman, a doctor. This encounter will change the two refugees’ lives and that of the young woman as well.
Balcanica
2026
NRTwo parallel journeys, Bianca's and a young illegal immigrant's, end up overlapping, in search of an impossible salvation, despite an almost inevitable shipwreck. At all costs. Against the odds and common sense. This is the story of Bianca. Bianca and her rusty whale. The fishing boat Moby Dick.
Moby Dick
2017
6.5With the end of the world looming, two young lovers lost in a suspended past begin to question their feelings for one another.
La Confessione
2024
NRHelena is an auxiliary in the Fuhrer's army. She has been entrusted with a group of Jewish children, but her train is attacked and she is the only survivor with one of them. Helena has one last choice: admirable servant of her country or traitor outcast.
Helena
2015
6.5Elsa is seventy and has five empty hives. The bees are gone like her husband. One morning he finds Amin, a sixteen-year-old boy who has escaped from an immigration center, hiding in the garage. The police are looking for him. Elsa hosts him in exchange for help.
Queen Bee
2019
Behind the camera
6.9Music has been banned in Afghanistan, and now an orchestra conductor and his son, a tuba player, attempt to start over by emigrating along the Balkan route. During their flight, seemingly endless, they cross paths with an Italian woman, a doctor. This encounter will change the two refugees’ lives and that of the young woman as well.
Balcanica
2026
6.9Music has been banned in Afghanistan, and now an orchestra conductor and his son, a tuba player, attempt to start over by emigrating along the Balkan route. During their flight, seemingly endless, they cross paths with an Italian woman, a doctor. This encounter will change the two refugees’ lives and that of the young woman as well.
Balcanica
2026
NRTwo parallel journeys, Bianca's and a young illegal immigrant's, end up overlapping, in search of an impossible salvation, despite an almost inevitable shipwreck. At all costs. Against the odds and common sense. This is the story of Bianca. Bianca and her rusty whale. The fishing boat Moby Dick.
Moby Dick
2017
NRTwo parallel journeys, Bianca's and a young illegal immigrant's, end up overlapping, in search of an impossible salvation, despite an almost inevitable shipwreck. At all costs. Against the odds and common sense. This is the story of Bianca. Bianca and her rusty whale. The fishing boat Moby Dick.
Moby Dick
2017
6.5With the end of the world looming, two young lovers lost in a suspended past begin to question their feelings for one another.
La Confessione
2024
6.5With the end of the world looming, two young lovers lost in a suspended past begin to question their feelings for one another.
La Confessione
2024
NRHelena is an auxiliary in the Fuhrer's army. She has been entrusted with a group of Jewish children, but her train is attacked and she is the only survivor with one of them. Helena has one last choice: admirable servant of her country or traitor outcast.
Helena
2015
NRHelena is an auxiliary in the Fuhrer's army. She has been entrusted with a group of Jewish children, but her train is attacked and she is the only survivor with one of them. Helena has one last choice: admirable servant of her country or traitor outcast.
Helena
2015
6.5Elsa is seventy and has five empty hives. The bees are gone like her husband. One morning he finds Amin, a sixteen-year-old boy who has escaped from an immigration center, hiding in the garage. The police are looking for him. Elsa hosts him in exchange for help.
Queen Bee
2019
