At the beginning of November, the 63rd Thessaloniki Film Festival “opened” with its new film. Steven Spielberg“Fabelmans”, which impressed the visitors of the Toronto Film Festival and received the Audience Choice Award.

It is the most personal film of the popular director’s career as it draws inspiration from his childhood and in particular from the beginning and subsequent development of his relationship with cinema. The film’s little protagonist, Sammy Feibelman, is basically Stephen at a young age who knows the movies and is fascinated by the world. The action takes place in 1950s America, and this decade is also beautifully captured on film.

Many directors “return” to the past, using events from their lives to shape the script for a film or television. But there are those who dared to write their own biography.

They tend to narrate personal aspects of their lives through original characters in works that are characterized as semi-autographic.
Anyone who has closely followed Spielberg’s cinematography knows that his films are, to some extent, about his childhood. However, with Fabelmans, for the first time, he creates a film exclusively about his life. Several people before him have tried to capture their youth, and in fact some have released perhaps the best films of their careers with elements of growing up. Who are they;

Music reporter William Miller tours with fictional 1970s rock band Stillwater. But the film is based on Crowe’s experiences as a teenager writing for Rolling Stone magazine. The character played by Frances McDormand is based on Crowe’s mother, Alice. The popular film is a love letter to a particular decade of rock music, but it focuses on a particular period of life when you start to discover yourself.

The American director was inspired by his own experiences as a high school football player and resentful of authority when he created the character Randall “Pink” Floyd in the classic coming-of-age story Dazed and Confused. In 2004, Linklater was sued for defamation by Richard “Pink” Floyd, Andy Slater, and Bobby Wooderson due to how they said they were portrayed in the film.

The story is based on George Lucas’ teenage years in Modesto, California in the early 1960s. his life.

Alfonso Cuarón has presented elements of his childhood in several films he has directed, but the 2018 Oscar-winning Roma was clearly autobiographical. The story is inspired by the breakup of his parents’ marriage and the life of the nanny who raised him. This is undoubtedly a fascinating exploration of topics such as race and social class against the backdrop of 1970s Mexico.

A film full of surreal scenes and unique musical numbers, as you would expect from a legendary choreographer/director. But it’s clear that All That Jazz is about the time the musical Chicago was being prepared for Broadway in 1975.

François Truffaut’s 400 Blows is one of the defining films of the French New Wave, with its roots in the childhood of Truffaut and his friends. In addition, it shows Truffaut’s love of cinema and how the indoor cinema was an escape from a harsh childhood for director and film character Antoine.

Fellini called films like Amarcord autobiographical. This particular film is based on his adolescence and experiences he had during the Mussolini period (1930) in Italy.