cinematography
Stefano Savona
Christopher Gallo
editing
Ilaria Fraioli

music
Giulia Tagliavia
sound
Marzia Cordò

productions
MIR Cinematografica
Videa Spa
Mediaart
Home Movies
AAMOD
producers
Francesco Virga
Traudi Messini
Fedele Giubitosi
Sandro Parenzo
Carlotta Cerquetti
Anna Negri
in collaboration with
Home Movies Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia

Italian distribution
Wanted
www.wantedcinema.eu

Italian press office
Kinoweb
www.kinoweb.it
redazione@kinoweb.it

When Anna was fourteen years old, her father was arrested and accused of being the secret head of Italian terrorism, charges of which he would be acquitted, years later. After four years in prison and fifteen in exile, Toni Negri became a world-class political philosopher, and his arrest merely one chapter in an extraordinary life. On Anna, though, that story left an indelible impression, and this film becomes a tale of the traumas of two generations, both personal and collective. Anna and Toni meet up in Venice, in front of a film camera, a friend of theirs doing the filming. Toni knows it will be his last time in Venice – and dies six months later. Anna, who has never lived with her father since his arrest, now tries to make up for lost time. And it is in this new dimension of a voyage of mutual discovery that we witness, as conveyed in a few gestures and choice words, any last doubts and misconceptions fade away, and the real meaning of two such complicated lives become clear.

2025 Toni, mio padre (doc)
2015 Fuori (short)
2008 Riprendimi
2007 Il était une fois à Essaouira (medium-length)
1999 In principio erano le mutande
1996 Dear Mum (doc)
1995 No Vat (short)
1993 All at Sea (short)
1993 Snow (short)
1992 Car-Wash-Love (short)
1991 Emma (short)
1990 Last Fair Deal Gone Down (short)

“Toni, My Father, is a very personal film, biographical and autobiographical, in which the present in Venice, filmed by Stefano Savona, is intertwined with interviews, home movies, photographs, and my own Super8 footage from age sixteen on. This body of material, edited by Ilaria Fraioli, with a score by Giulia Tagliavia, portrays a personal story which History itself bursts in upon, evoked through television clips and news articles. For me, the challenge was to succeed in telling such a layered story by identifying its main themes. I would finally attempt to understand that revolutionary mentality which characterized the last century, then question the ethics of the violence, or how individuals come out at the other end of a defeat. Our relationship, which is a parallel story that is perhaps even more fascinating, turned into a narrative device that would allow the universal themes to emerge – such as the conflict between ideologies and lived lives, and the generational clash as well.” (Anna Negri)

Anna Negri was born in Venice. She left Italy at the age of eighteen and moved to Paris, where she started working on films as a director’s assistant. Later, she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Groningen, Holland and in London, where she received a film degree from the London College of Printing and a Master’s in directing from the Royal College of Art. In 1998, she returned to Italy to direct her first film, In principio erano le mutande, selected for the Forum section of the Berlin Film Festival in1999. Between 2000 and 2021, Negri directed five television movies and two series for Netflix. Her second feature film, Riprendimi (2008), screened in competition at Sundance. She published her first novel, Con un piede impigliato nella Storia (Feltrinelli), in 2009. Since 2017, she has taught directing at the Gian Maria Volonté Film School in Rome.