FATHER

In August 2018, I visited my father in northern Italy, where he had worked at a winery for twenty
years. My purpose was to address the violence he inflicted on me and my sisters during our
upbringing. However, our conversation, captured by my partner and co-director Radu Ciorniciuc,
revealed that he had been enduring years of underpayment, humiliation, and physical abuse from
his Italian employer. We equipped him with a hidden camera to expose the mistreatment.
Filmed in Italy, Moldova and Romania, TATA starts in one home and extends, just as violence
does, in the larger society. It creates a portrait of a family coming together to change its own
structure, built by patriarchy, toxic masculinity and abuse, and find new ways of reconciliation.