Margherita Malerba is a filmmaker, researcher and archive producer. Her films move between documentary, essay film and experimental cinema.

Her first feature, Pagine di storia naturale (2019), premiered in competition at FIDMarseille. She is currently completing her second feature, Il Libro d'Ore, which blends documentary and fiction. Her films have screened at festivals and programmes in Europe and beyond, including FIDMarseille, IDFA, Cork International Film Festival, Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Festival Internacional de Cine de Concepción and Fuorinorma.

In 2025 she was an Artist Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. In 2026 she took part in Berlinale Talents.

She is a co-founder of Reframing Home Movies, a national association for the preservation of home movies, and of Index Archive Studio, an archival research and rights clearance studio for international productions.

email: mabmarg@gmail.com

image: Athanasius Kircher, Ars magna lucis et umbrae, 1646