In 2024, Marcel Barsotti made his debut as a film director with the highly acclaimed short film ‘TRANSFORMATION’, an elaborate science fiction production made with artificial intelligence that deals with the question of the extent to which life can find peace in this universe. The film received 17 international awards & 28 nominations. In 2025, Barsotti completed his second AI film, ‘IMPERIA,’ which celebrated its world premieres in Japan, Canada, Italy, Austria and Germany. The 36-minute, highly elaborate science fiction film has currently won currently 10 awards and 12 international nominations.

Barsotti began working as a music video director on various projects in 2020 and received the David Award (2023) for his electronic music video “The New Human” and the Onkyo Award (2023) for “Fields”.

Multi-award winning composer Marcel Barsotti is an impressive and extraordinary talent who creates powerful individual film scores and electronic music that expand the possibilities of storytelling. The composer is known for a wide range of international projects, from the impressive highly awarded international drama La Línea Imaginaria (2023), to the acclaimed Constantin Production Pope Joan (2009) and The Miracle of Bern (2003), the dystopian thriller Forgiveness (2022), to the Warner family entertainment comedy Jesus Loves Me (2012) and to the german documentary Germany. A Summer`s fairytale (2006).

Barsotti‘s numerous more than 174 wins & nominations include the German Record Critics Award, IPF Honoary Film Merit Award Toronto, Rome Independent Film Festival RIFF Award, Austrian Film Festival Award, Chicago Amarcord Television Award, New Better Filmfestival Award Munich, Camgaroo Award Munich, Korea SIAFF Award, 3 German Television nominations, German Film Academy nomination or the German Music Authors nomination.

Since 1995 Barsotti has composed the scores for more than 100 national and international movies & commercials. During these years he worked with famous directors and producers like Sönke Wortmann, Günter Rohrbach, Caroline Link, Luc Besson-Production, Carl Schenkel, Josée Dayan, Eberhard Junkersdorf and Hark Bohm.

From 1982 – 1988 he studied composition, piano, conducting and clarinet at the Conservatory of Munich in Germany. He is also contributing to the worldwide ethnic Sample Library Ethno World. In 2017 he founded the production music company Tunesformovies.

From 2019 – 2022 Barsotti released his first electronic solo albums Transpicuous, Earth & YOX, as well as the orchestral cycle Americana. In 2023 Barsotti started with his first orchestral concert tour.

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