A rare way of smiling

A rare way of smiling

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 17, 2024

Original Title

Un modo di sorridere insolito

Production Companies

Re-framing Home Movies, Cineteca Sarda

Director

Veronica Orrù

Description

A diary film about fathers and the legacies they leave behind after their passing. Starting from the home movies of a 1960s Sardinian family, a dialogue made of contrasts: on one hand, Franz Kafka's "Letter to His Father", and on the other, images depicting a joyful atmosphere and an ordinary family. Far from the idea of a distant and authoritarian patriarch, what we see is a present and engaged father, playing and posing with his children, bending to fit into the frame.