She has since directed notable films such as The Wonders (2014), winner of the Grand Prix; Happy as Lazzaro (2018), which she also wrote and which received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay; and La chimera (2023).

[1] Rohrwacher was born in Fiesole, Tuscany, to an Italian mother and German father.

[2] She lived as a youth in the village of Castel Giorgio, Umbria, where her mother was born and her father Reinhard worked as a beekeeper.

In June 2018, Rohrwacher was invited to become a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

[11] Bong Joon-ho described her work as "a mix of magic realism and neorealism, innocent characters butting up against corrupt behemoths".