Paolo Strippoli was born in Corato, Bari, in 1993.
He graduated in directing from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome after graduating in Performing Arts and Sciences at La Sapienza University.
In 2019 he won the Franco Solinas award for best subject with the film L'angelo infelice.
In 2020 he directs with Roberto De Feo the Netflix original film A Classic Horror Story, with which he wins the best director award at the 67th Taormina Film Fest.
In 2022 he directs his second feature film, the psychological horror film Flowing.
In 2025 he will release his next movie, the horror The Valley of Smiles.
In the past few days Rome has been the scene of a singular event: when it rains, the manholes exhale a dense steam whose origin and composition is unknown. No one can imagine that whoever breathes in the mysterious substance will have to deal with what he/she represses, their darkest instincts, their anger. Not even the Morel family.
In a dark, velvety theatre, there is a first kiss between Pietro and Tommaso. When the lights come back on, however, the two students have different expectations of what might follow. The chaos of awakening desire in its complexity and sensuality is told and made almost physically tangible through looks and gestures, approach and retreat, hope and fear.
Chiara loves Instagram and she loves her followers. But when one night someone really starts following her, her life turns into a vortex of danger and desperation, Story after Story.
After the funeral of a young man, six men carry a white coffin to the hearse that will take it to the cemetery. Pietro and Adriano, two gravediggers, discuss among themselves, inquiring about the boy’s death. In a small town in the South of Italy, a circle of rumors and comments spreads about the tragic death of Claudio and offers a sharp vision about a tragic issue of our time.