Biography
Ronny Trocker was born in Bolzano, Italy, in 1978 and started his career as a sound engineer for various theatre and music projects. In 2004 he moved to Argentina, where he started studying at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires. From 2012 on, he studied at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains in Tourcoing, France, which has a focus on audiovisual media.
As a student, Trocker directed the one-hour long documentary film "Grenzland - Terra di Confine" (IT 2012) about the history and presence of his home region South Tyrol. A year later he realized the short documentary "Gli immacolati" (2013) about a rape case and the rising xenophobia in a village in northern Italy, for which he won the silver medal at the Chicago International Film Festival. His short film "Estate" ("Summer", 2016) was among others shown in the short film competition of the Berlinale.
At the Venice Film Festival 2016, Ronny Trocker introduced his first feature film "Die Einsiedler" ("The Eremites", DE/IT/AT), a drama about a farmer's son in South Tyrol torn between finding personal happiness and his responsibilities for his parents. The film was released in German cinemas in October 2017.
In January 2021, Trocker's next film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival (USA): the drama "Der menschliche Faktor" ("The Human Factor", DE/IT/DK), told from different perspectives, is about a family whose members have to face various conflicts, their differing attitudes and the fragility of their perceptions during a vacation. The film also screened in the Panorama of the Berlinale 2021 and opened in theaters in June 2022.