IL PICCOLO GOLEM

One fine afternoon of 1949, Pier Paolo Pasolini and the artist Giuseppe Zigaina made a head of raw clay and offered it to Viola's grandmother, pregnant at the time, as a promise for the bright future that was ahead of them. More than seventy years later, Viola takes the restoration of this family relic as an excuse to confront her father and try to break the taboo that surrounds the death of her grandmother. 

year
2022

length
21’

direction
Federica Quaini

subject
Federica Quaini & Viola Giulia Milocco

cinematography
Hugo Massa

editing
Chiara De Cunto

sound takes & sound design
Massimiliano Borghesi

music
Dario Miranda

production
Fondazione Aamod

with the support of
Premio Zavattini (vainqueur 2021/2022)

selections
Torino Film Festival 2022
Metropolis Film Festival (finalist)
Festival del Cinema di Cefalù (finalist)
Cinema Jove – Festival Internacional de Cine de Valencia 2023
Falvaterra Film Festival (finalist)
Biopic Short Fest
Alta Marea Festival

other screenings
Cinema Farnese (Rome)
Cinema Intrastevere (Rome)
Cinema dei Piccoli (Rome)
Himachal Short Film Festival
Cinema del Reale
UnArchive Fest
Aperossa