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Tommaso Barba

Tommaso Barba

Directing

Biography

After earning a diploma in Directing and Screenwriting from the Griffith Academy, he completed a Master’s in Screenwriting at the Civica Scuola di Cinema “Luchino Visconti” and attended the course Neverending Stories: Writing a Series at Scuola Holden. His short film Toska (2023) became the most awarded Italian short of the year. With Dall’altro lato (2022), he won Best Director at the AnimArt Film Festival and Best Film on Pandemic at the London Indie Film Festival. In 2024, Camilla (Associak) received two awards and was selected in numerous festivals. In 2025, he directed Istanti (Siberia Distribution), Nella tua testa, Margherita, mozzarelle e Fanta, and Tacchino. He has served as a jury member for the North Hollywood CineFest, Short Shot Fest, OFN, and Deluxe Film Festival. He has also taken part in workshops such as Sentiero Script Lab, Courts entre 2 rives, and Abbruzzo Pitch Stories.

Known For

Toska
8.0

Flavio, immersed in the sadness of nostalgia and regret, faces his daily loneliness, seeking solace in the solitary ritual of smoking a cigarette. Each puff becomes a journey back in time, an immersion in a parallel dimension that brings to light the moments shared with Alberto. The warmth of those hugs, the echo of shared laughter and the tears that bathed their cheeks become present, as if they had just happened. Every blurry image that surfaces, every fleeting glance that materializes and every whispered word that resonates reveal the fragile nature of human balance and the profound gravity of the choices that shaped their relationship. But in that very smoke lies a strange consolation, a sense of acceptance that begins to germinate in his heart. He accepts the end of the relationship, with all its painful consequences, and launches himself into a new future, leaving behind what has been and opening his arms to the unknown that awaits him.

Toska

2023Movie