Agata is four years old. In the tranquillity of a vineyard in Basilicata, she watches her father harvesting the grapes. What takes shape is not so much a narrative as a moment of suspension: a memory that is at once intimate and distant, as if evoked from someone else’s past. Blending home videos and staged archive footage, the film reflects on memory as invention, a fragile trace shaped by time and absence.
Lo sguardo basso delle bambine
Astrid Ardenti
Italia 2025
7′
Direction
Astrid Ardenti (Caracas, 1994) is an Italian-Venezuelan filmmaker, photographer and editor. She studied film and photography in Milan, Turin and Buenos Aires. Her short films “Il tempo si distingue tra le tue mani” (2020), “Misleading” (2020) and “Lo sguardo basso delle bambine” (2025) have been screened at national and international festivals. In 2025, she directed the documentary “Tra Milano e la luna”, marking the tenth anniversary of Vasco Brondi’s “Costellazioni”. She has worked on various films and documentaries as a production assistant and coordinator, on-set photographer, director of photography and editor. She is currently developing her first feature film, “¿Dónde durmieron nuestras abuelas?”, which explores the personal and collective stories of Italian emigration to Argentina.
