Dov’è che ci siamo già visti? (Beyond memory) – dir. Claudio Piccolotto, Gemma Iuliano

Original Film Title: Dov’è che ci siamo già visti? (Beyond memory)

Director’s Name: Claudio Piccolotto, Gemma Iuliano

Writer’s Name: Claudio Piccolotto, Gemma Iuliano

Producer: Roberto Imbriale, Cristina Bianconi

Country of Origin: Italy

Country of Filming: Italy

Language: Italian

Runtime: 15 minutes

Film Description:

Arturo, a seventy-four-year-old junk dealer who has spent his life repairing broken things, discovers he is gravely ill. His adult children, Anna and Ernesto, try to find a way to care for him, eventually deciding — reluctantly — to bring him back to live with his former wife, Miranda.
But Miranda has Alzheimer’s and no longer remembers him. To avoid confusing her, Arturo must pretend to be a distant cousin in need of a place to stay.
Living under the same roof after thirty years apart, the two move through a strange, suspended time. In the rhythm of their shared days — a breakfast, a shadow in the corridor, a song from the past — something subtle shifts. Memory flickers like light through dust, and forgotten tenderness finds its way back.
Through the lens of illness and aging, “Beyond memory” becomes a meditation on love, time, and identity. The story blurs the line between what is remembered and what is imagined, between what once was and what could have been.
Arturo comes to understand that not everything broken can be repaired — yet, by staying close to Miranda, he discovers that love itself can offer a quiet form of redemption.
Blending realism and poetry, the film invites us to look at memory not as something that fades, but as something that moves — fragile, luminous, alive.