Baba

Original Title: نانا

Runtime: 80'

Expected Release: September 2027

Production Stage: Production, Shooting

1st Feature: Yes

Looking for: International co-producer, sales agents, distributors for theatrical and non-theatrical release and TV pre-sales partners to strengthen the financing structure and outreach

Synopsis:

When she realizes her story is not an isolated one, Laila, a young Italian-Palestinian woman, confronts the family lunch her father never misses. Alongside a new generation shaped by exile, she navigates silences and absences until the day of a wedding: mothers sit in the front row, sons and daughters too, the fathers do not.

Director’s Profile:

Giacomo Fausti is a filmmaker from Campania. He studied Graphic Design and Art Direction at NABA in Milan, where he began exploring the relationship between cultural identity and resistance through Somos Mapuche. He later trained at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, collaborating with Laura Poitras and Field of Vision on Notes From CARA (Manifesta12, 2018). In 2022 he directed The Seed Generation, and in 2025 he won the award for Best Video Podcast in Italy with MY ZONE. He is currently working on the documentary Baba – بابا while developing a new project based on his family’s Southern Italian wedding archive.

Co-Director’s Profile:

Laila Sit Aboha is a PhD candidate at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. Her research examines the Palestinian diaspora and generational conflict through a postcolonial lens. She is the daughter of a survivor of the 1967 exile and the granddaughter of a survivor of the 1948 Nakba. An activist with Giovani Palestinesi d’Italia, she lives between Milan and Florence, with her heart in Naples.

Producer’s Profile:

Marta Melina is an Italian-based film producer working with SMK Factory (Bologna), a company specialised in social documentaries. Alongside production, she has extensive experience in fundraising, impact campaigns, crowdfunding campaigns. Among her recent works are: the impact campaign for Sarura (Nicola Zambelli – 2021) selected at FIFDH Impact days 2020, acquired by Al Jazeera Arabic; Kissing Gorbaciov (Andrea Mariani, Luigi D’Alife, 2023), premiered at Festival dei Popoli, nominated for the 2024 Nastri d’Argento, toured successfully in Italian cinemas. She is currently following the development of three documentaries: Waves Album by Armando Duccio Ventriglia, Hans Clemer – An Unauthorized Biography by Fredo Valla, and Missing by Cecilia Fasciani.