Veronica Orrù / Italy / 21’ / 2024

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.

Text from Letter to His Father by Franz Kafka
Music by Alessandro Giustiniano
Editing by Veronica Orrù
archival images Società Umanitaria – Cineteca Sarda, Paolo Boero fund and the Orrù-Tanda family personal archive

Veronica Orrù
Veronica Orrù is a filmmaker whose work focuses on diary films and found footage.
She was born in Sardinia and currently resides in Milan.
After graduating in cinema from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, she began working as an assistant director, editor, and archive researcher. She is the co-founder of the association Re-framing home movies, which aims to enhance and preserve family films and private audiovisual memories.