SARINO 
​​​by Valerio Filardo

14min | Italy | 2019

Nazi concentration camp, 1944.
Two Italian prisoners locked in a very small cell are taking a pledge.
How far are they willing to go to keep the promise?
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Year of production 2019
Length 14 min
Country Italy
Film Format 2K
Aspect Ratio  2.39:1
Sound Stereo
Dialogue Italian

Director Valerio Filardo
Producer Stefano Manca
Production Associazione Culturale Drugantis, Babbudoiu Corporation
Writer Valerio Filardo
Cinematographer Matteo Castelli
Editor Theo Putzu
Sound Design Pietro Giordano
Music Gianluca Bartolo, Luca Macaluso
Cast Dario Frasca, Riccardo Sati
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Festival Selections
Minikino Film Festival 2019, Indonesia
Cortiamo 2019, Italy
CortoDino Film Festival 2019, Italy
Via dei Corti - Festival Indipendente di Cinema Breve 2019, Italy
Socialciti Film Festival 2019, United Arab Emirates - Best Actor Award
VIFF - Varese International Film Festival - Best Make Up Award
Chennai International Short Film Festival 2020, India​
​gLocal Film Festival - Piemonte Movie 2020, Italy - Best Actor Award
ClujShorts International Short Film Festival 2020, Romania
Okotoks Film Festival 2020, Canada​
Cabriolet Film Festival 2020, Lebanon
Corto e a capo - Premio Mario Puzo 2020, Italy - Best Social Short, Premio Immaginale
Villammare Film Festival 2020, Italy
Cibo Corto Cine Festival Internazionale 2020, Italy - Best Short, Best Actor Award
Orlando International Film Festival 2020, USA
Charlotte Film Festival 2020, USA
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Director's Statement
The biographical nature of this work has led me to experience two conflicting emotions for months. On one side it was fantastic to be able to give “visual life” to one of my grandpa’s tales about the war he lived. “What brings a man to eat potato skins?”, I was wondering when the story was going into details. From the other side it was very sad. The research work needed to go deeper in a blurred reality, even for me, made me realise what he really went through, him and the other 600.000 prisoners like him. It would be great to remember a little more these men, considered by many the first Italian partisans, especially now.