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Italian director Antonio Palumbo won the SNAD Italian Theater Festival in 2004 with Bossolo, which he wrote and directed. He made his film debut in 2010 with the black-and-white short Scusa. His 2015 documentary Varichina premiered at Biografilm and was nominated for the Nastri d’Argento.

In 2018, he directed the documentary Le donne e il ’68. His feature Nicola–Cozze, Kebab, Coca Cola (2021) received an award at SIFF 2022. In 2022, his short film Il vecchio e il muro won at Tulipani di Seta Nera and was presented at the 80th Venice Film Festival. In 2024, he directed a commercial for the Puglia Region in collaboration with CNN and BBC International. He is currently a professor of film directing and creative writing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bari.