For Luchino Visconti, cinema was a way of observing humanity through reality. In his films, history, class, love, and tragedy coexist in a cinematic language where every detail carries meaning.

One of the greatest masters of Italian cinema, Visconti created a world in which beauty never conceals human vulnerability, it reveals it.

TIFF in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC), has selected three key moments from Visconti’s career: his first film, his most famous work and his final film.

Obsession (Ossessione) (1943)
Rocco and His Brothers (Rocco e i suoi fratelli) (1960)
The Innocent (L’Innocente) (1976)

Three films. Three moments. One extraordinary gaze on humanity.

HUMANOGRAPHY is also this: returning to stories that have shown us people as they are: complex, fragile, and contradictory.