Film Commission Torino Piemonte

The Apgar Score tells from an intimate and personal point of view Valentina, the filmmaker,'s search for her interrupted relationship with her brother Andrea, starting in the past, tracing three generations through the family cinema of her grandfather, Sardinian filmmaker Fiorenzo Serra.  The narrative hypothesis envisioned for the documentary refers directly to the author's biography. Starting from the more than 40 8mm films of her grandfather, a documentary filmmaker who filmed his children for twenty years (one of them is Valentina's mother), the director intends to give life to an extremely intimate research in which she reflects on the past and family ties.  A journey along twenty years of 8mm film, over forty years of correspondence between Fiorenzo and his wife, through poems written in the years of youth and war, images of the family homes filmed yesterday and today, the children Simonetta and Antonio in the 1960s and 1970s, and over a hundred years of photographs until arriving at the present: the generation of Valentina and Andrea.  The director observes how a family system evolves on a biological level, how the ways of relating within the family microcosm change based on the social dictates of a specific territorial context, that of the Sardinian hinterland, where deviance can often be banished or hidden in the shadows. Two generations will be revealed especially marked by the presence of mental illness, two fraternal relationships, that between Simonetta and Antonio, observed by the camera of their father Fiorenzo, protagonists as children and adolescents in family films; and that between Valentina and Andrea. Both women, mother and daughter, discover themselves to be older sisters of psychically fragile men and holders of an unspoken that is passed down from generation to generation.