Nino. 18 giorni follows Nino D’Angelo as he prepares for the concert that will mark his return to the stage. Through rehearsals, memories and family gatherings, his son Toni’s camera constructs an intimate diary where public and private merge, painting a portrait of a wildly popular artist and, at the same time, of a man grappling with time, memory and his connection to his roots.

DIRECTOR'S NOTES:
My father is my greatest mystery: very close and yet very distant at the same time. I speak Roman dialect and grew up in affluence; he speaks Neapolitan and was born into poverty. His enormous success in the 1980s dug a gulf between us that has always driven me to seek out who he was before becoming “Nino”. With a traditional video camera, I would have invaded his privacy; with my smartphone, I found the right distance, as if taking notes in pencil. Nino. 18 giorni thus becomes the excuse to tell who Gaetano was before becoming Nino, who Nino was before becoming my father, and where we’ve come together. What emerges is the story of a man who gave voice to millions of Italians, the popular and poetic soul of a country full of contradictions.