Lilian Sassanelli

Birth : , Hamburg, Germany

History

She was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1993. She started as an actress at 3 years old. In 2006 she starred in the short film “Il parco dei mostri” together with Rocco Papaleo, in 2010 in the series “Distretto di Polizia” and “La scelta di Laura”. In 2013 she moved to Berlin. In Germany she did a 6-month internship as a production assistant in the Wüste Film Ost, contributes to the production of some short films, both as assistant director and as an actress. In 2017 she works as assistant director and dialogue coach on the film “Two little Italians” by Paolo Sassanelli. Her first short film "Im Bären", shot in 2018, is in the five finalists of the David di Donatello and the Nastri D’Argento.

Profile

Movies

Castelli di sabbia

Cinematography

Past and present mood surface and superimpose in the director's parents' private archive images, among the relations which retrace the same, inexplicable steps.

Castelli di sabbia

Herself

Past and present mood surface and superimpose in the director's parents' private archive images, among the relations which retrace the same, inexplicable steps.

Castelli di sabbia

Director

Past and present mood surface and superimpose in the director's parents' private archive images, among the relations which retrace the same, inexplicable steps.

Im Bären

Julia

An italian girl is looking for a room to stay in Berlin. In the process she will have to undergo a series of casting sessions in which she will lose herself in the big city.

Im Bären

Director

An italian girl is looking for a room to stay in Berlin. In the process she will have to undergo a series of casting sessions in which she will lose herself in the big city.

Due piccoli italiani

Assistant Director

The daring journey through Europe of two somewhat naive friends, Salvatore and Felice, fleeing a small town in Puglia, who find themselves catapulted to Rotterdam and then to Iceland. For the first time in their lives they will discover what it means to feel alive and happy. Through some mishap and with the help of the generous and extravagant Anke, they will overcome their fears and inhibitions. They will be overwhelmed by life, discovering the joy of existing and of experiencing and receiving affection and love in a strange triangle of relationships typical of a 'modern family', bizarre and reassuring at the same time.

Fuori di me

Self

Documentary about a screening of Zanasi's previous film "Nella mischia" (1995) in an impoverished district of Bari.