L'uomo più bello del mondo

Most families have relatives who have been blotted out of their history, and these gaps also point to the motives behind these stories. "The most beautiful man in the world" left behind just 25 photographs after his death. His nephew Paolo deliberately steps out of the family system to let the AI tool Google Vision API interpret the images of his uncle Michele. Criteria like class, education, etc. now identify the beautiful, deceased man as a potential consumer. When Paolo shows his mother the photos of Michele, she reorganises them in line with her memories. Paolo’s questions to his mother shed light on the 80s and 90s, when drugs and AIDS shook Italy. Speculative narrative fragments critically balance each other out. Michele is brought back into the family fold and becomes visible as a figure of contemporary history. (Christiane Büchner)

Paolo Baiguera, born 1998, is a director and filmmaker. He has worked on a range of productions with companies including Sky, Rai, Kon-Tiki Film, Indigo Film, ANG Film, and Ring Film. Since 2023, he has been collaborating with Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis on the feature Testa O Croce? (Heads or Tails?), selected for the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival 2025. His debut short film El pütì pèrs (The Lost Child) premiered at the 2025 Venice International Film Critics’ Week where it received a special mention.

Director Paolo Baiguera. Editing Paolo Baiguera. Producers Andrea Gatopoulos, Tommaso Bertani, Graziano Chiscuzzu. Production companies Il Varco Cinema (Rom), Ring Film (Rom, Italy), 5e6 (Brescia, Italy).

World sales Gargantua Film Distribution

Films: 2025: El pütì pèrs / The Lost Child (short film). 2026: L’uomo più bello del mondo / The Most Beautiful Man in the World.