Accidents, Archives, and Acts of Sabotage: A Conversation with Palestinian Film Director Kamal Aljafari
In a colonial context, reworking images is an act of liberation and reclaiming, a way to tell stories of a...
Davide Oberto
Davide Oberto is a film curator and publicist. Born in Alba (Italy) in 1970, he moved to Turin in 1989, where he studied Philosophy, Human Sciences, and Film History at the Università di Torino.
In 1999, he began collaborating with the Torino Film Festival, where in 2005 he became curator of the Italian Competitions (Short Films and Documentaries). Three years later, he launched TFFdoc, a new section dedicated to international documentaries, with the aim of introducing some of the most interesting and significant films from a distinctly cinematic perspective to Italian audiences.
From 2002 to 2009, he was programmer of From Sodom to Hollywood – Turin LGBT Film Festival, for which he also curated several retrospectives. These included programs on Fassbinder, queer cinema in the Arab world, the Spaghetti Western, and “j-ender: Big Bang Love in Japan,” as well as tributes to Alain Guiraudie and Adolfo Arrieta.
From 2015 to 2018, he served as co-director of Doclisboa alongside Cíntia Gil, and in 2019 curated the festival’s retrospective dedicated to Jocelyne Saab.
In 2024, he moved to Berlin, where he continues to work as a freelance film curator and publicist.
