Our new scholarship holder for the school year 2024/2025:

Mattia Valtancoli:

Welcome, Mattia Valtancoli!

We are very pleased to welcome Mattia Valtancoli as a new scholarship holder of our Pierino Ambrosoli Foundation for the semester 2024/2025!

Mattia, born in 2007, impresses not only with his outstanding talent, but also with his passion and dedication to art. We are looking forward to his path and to be able to accompany him in his further development.

Congratulations, Mattia – we wish you an inspiring time full of creative success!

New York City premiere from the 17th April 2024 was a great success! Thanks to everyone who was involved and who came to the premiere.

papa&dada

Documentary by Daniela Ambrosoli, produced in 2021.
In her new documentary «papa&dada», the award-winning Ticino director Daniela Ambrosoli shows what it means to have children as a homosexual couple: Four couples talk about the tough challenges and inspiring joys that accompanied their way to a family. Also present is the famous ballet dancer John Lam and his husband John Ruggieri.
So far the film has been presented at the following festivals:

• LA Independent Women Film Awards 2022 Official selection
• LIFF-Sweden, Lulea International Film Festival 2021 Finalist
• Love Story Film Festival London 2022 nominated Best Documentary
• Fusion International Film Festival 2022 LGBTQ Best Documentary Award Winner
• East Europe International Film Festival-Warsaw Edition 2022 Best Documentary Award Winner
• Lonely Wolf International Film Festival London 2023 Nominated Best Queer
• Lonely Wolf International Film Festival London 2023 Nominated Best Feature Doc
• Lonely Wolf International Film Festival London 2023 Nominated Best Doc Editing & Sound
• Lonely Wolf International Film Festival London 2023 Nominated Best Doc Directing
• Berlin International Art Film Festival 2022 Nominated Best Documentary
• New York Independent Cinema Awards 2023 Best Documentary Award Winner
• Toronto Film and Script Awards 2023 Semi-finalist
• Poland 14th LGBT+ Film Festival Official 2023 Selection
• Freiburg Germany 39th Gay film Festival Official 2023 Selection
• 18th Festival of Tolerance - JFF Zagreb Croatia Premiere
• Infinite Creativity Film Festival Geneva Switzerland 2023 Selection
• World Rome Cinema Fest - Winner Best Documentary Feature 2024

New website

The new website of the Pierino Ambrosoli Foundation has been online since February 2022.

Photos by Shari Yantra Marcacci, Bachelor of Contemporary Dance ZHdK, taZ Tanz Akademie Zürich, Frank Marcacci, Aliocha Ivan Merker, Christian Glaus, and Tianyu Gu.