My Love Letter To Italy

My Love Letter To Italy (2020)

My Love Letter to Italy is a short film directed by Emmy award-nominated Francesco Carrozzini (known for work with artists like Jay-Z, Beyoncé)., created as a personal and collective tribute to Italy during one of the most delicate moments in its recent history.

The film was conceived during the Covid-19 pandemic, when Italy was among the first countries to face the health emergency. Through evocative imagery and an emotionally driven narration, Carrozzini crafts a true visual love letter to his country, celebrating its resilience, beauty, and cultural identity, even in the silence and suspension imposed by lockdown.

The short alternates emptied urban landscapes, symbolic details, and archival material, blending cinematic language with a strong photographic sensibility—one of the director’s defining traits. The tone is intimate and contemplative, closer to a poetic reflection than to a traditional narrative.

Music also plays a key role, serving as an emotional thread: it accompanies the images with a warm, meditative register, amplifies the sense of memory and “calling” toward Italy, and guides the rhythm of the film almost like an inner voice.

My Love Letter to Italy thus fits into Carrozzini’s artistic path as a brief yet meaningful work, capable of transforming a moment of crisis into a gesture of memory, affection, and belonging, addressed not only to Italians but to an international audience.