Un modo di sorridere insolito
(A rare way of smiling)
21’
2024
Short film produced as part of Re-framing home movies / L'eredità ritrovata.
A diary film built from home movies shot by a father in Sardinia during the 1950s and ’60s, capturing playful and affectionate family moments before his early death. Paired with Kafka’s “Letter to His Father,” the film reflects on absence, memory, and the filmmaker’s own father, exploring how those lost continue to live through the images we watch.
Text freely adapted from Franz Kafka's “Letter to His Father”
editing by Veronica Orrù
music by Alessandro Giustiniano
archival footage from Paolo Boero's film collection (Società Umanitaria - Cineteca Sarda) and the Orrù-Tanda family archive
produced with the support of SIAE through the Sillumina initiative – Private Copy for the Young, for Culture.
SCREENINGS
2024
Filmmaker Festival, Milano, Italy
Cagliari Essay Film, Cagliari, Italy
2025
IsReal – Festival del Cinema Documentario, Nuoro, Italy
UnArchive Found Footage Fest, Roma, Italy
Lago Film Fest, Revine Lago, Italy
The Memories Film Fest, Bocchigliero, Italy - Best short film Award
Tranås at the Fringe, Tranås, Sweden
Meet the Docs!, Forlì, Italy
ANALOGICA, Bolzano, Italy
Documentaria, Noto, Italy
Beijing International Short Film Festival, Beijing, China
Giornate del cinema mediterraneo, Iglesias, Italy
FamilyLens International Film Festival, Beijing, China
(As a work in progress)
MalatestaShort Film Festival, Cesena, 13/14.11.2021
Archivissima, online screening, 4-9.06.2021
Festival di Pesaro, Pesaro, 16.06.2019
Bergamo Film Meeting, Bergamo, 16.03.2019