652 miles = 0 (or the wonderful convenience of videocalling)
2021 - Director, Editor
Director: Giulio Gobbetti
Cinematographer: Various
Editor: Giulio Gobbetti
Runtime: 3’45”
Project Status: festival run
Festival Selection: CineLebu 2021 (Academy Award / Oscar© Qualifying), Pune International Film Festival 2021, Visions du Réel 2021 Film Market, Lago Film Fest 2021, Bolton Film Festival 2021 (Bafta Qualifying), GZDOC Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival 2021, London Migration Film Festival 2021, 23rd cortoLovere (Winner – Best Documentary, Best Overall Film), 14th Festival CinemaZERO, 16th COFFI Cortoglobo Film Fest (Special Mention – Best Original Idea), 23rd Madurai International Documentary Festival 2021, 9th Goa Short Film Festival, 14th International Film Festival Wales, DocDays 2021, Essex Doc Fest 2021, Älvsbyn Film Festival 2021, 12th Mobile International Film Festival, Milano Mobile Film Festival 2021 (Finalist), New York Flash Film Festival 2021, Vesuvius International Film Fest 2021 (Finalist), Varese International Film Festival (Finalist), ViZ Film Fest 2021 (Finalist), Kolkata International Micro Film Festival 2022, Simply Indie Film Fest 2022, Moinho Cine Fest 2022, Little Rock Italian Film Festival 2022 (Winner – Best Short Film), AmiCorti International Film Festival 2022, Pune Short Film Festival 2022, Montenegro Online Smartphone Film Festival 2022.
Logline
While the whole world is grappling with Coronavirus, Giulio’s grandmother is one of many under quarantine in Italy. From 652 miles away, he embarks on a quest… to teach her how to video-call.
Synopsis
Italy was the first European country to be heavily hit by the Covid-19 outbreak. Giulio’s hometown of Verona is one of the country’s hotspots, and one of the first ones to impose a strict regime of quarantine. In this sense, the stretch of 652 miles that separate the director’s London home from his grandmother’s is not any different than the distance between her and her neighbours. What better opportunity to teach her remotely how to do video-calls? At times funny, at times deadly serious, 652 miles = 0 is a touching account of a familiar relationship. It is a film about family, connection, and belonging, a film that lives neither in Italy nor in the UK, but somewhere in between.
