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
Filmmaker Festival, Milano, 2024
Cagliari Essay Film, Cagliari, 2024
IsReal – Festival del Cinema Documentario, Nuoro, 2025
UnArchive Found Footage Fest, Roma, 2025
Lago Film Fest, Revine Lago, 2025
The Memories Film Fest, Bocchigliero, 2025 - Best short film Award
(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