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VALENTINA POSTIKA IS WAITING TO LEAVE
A film by Caterina Carone
Italy, 2009
73’, Beta Digital
Color & b/w
Original version: Italian, Moldavian

Valentina has an Italian name but she is not Italian. Valentina lives where she works and works where she lives. She can’t go back. She lives in waiting. Valentina is the carer of Carlo, an 88 year old partisan from Pesaro and former leader of the Communist Party in the 50s. Their necessary cohabitation, closed within the walls of a small suburban apartment, takes place between silences, arguments and misunderstandings, and between moments of friendship and coldness. Carlo, caught up in his political defeats, retraces the past through archive materials from his library. Valentina thinks of tomorrow when she will be able to return to Moldavia to hold her three children once again. The months, hours and minutes pass slowly and far from the bustle of city life, while Carlo and Valentina spend one last year together.

Torino Film Festival 2009 - Best Italian Documentary Film