After the preview organized in March, dedicated to the presentation of Angelo Ferracuti's book "We have only love left", the eighth edition of the Cagliari film festival gets underway from 7 to 10 July .
For four days, in the splendid garden of Palazzo Siotto in via Dei Genovesi 114, fictional cinema, documentaries and photography intertwine in a stimulating program on the theme "Cinema and photography, they talk about us" , an opportunity to reflect on aspects such as censorship , confinement, prisons, pandemics, utopia and school.
The appointment will be a new opportunity to promote film culture in the sign of civil commitment , an objective that has characterized the festival organized by the Tina Modotti cultural association since the first edition.
This year's calendar includes ten appointments that will feature directors with consolidated experience but also young authors and authors to whom the event has always looked with particular attention to promote artistic talent, make work known and promote the circulation of productions. independent.
All presentations will be by the historian Luciano Marrocu and the artistic director of the festival, Alessandra Piras.
THE APPOINTMENTS - On the evening of Thursday 7 July the second part of the festival will be inaugurated by Aleksey German Jr. , one of the most popular directors of the new Russian generation: at 9.30 pm his "Dovlatov. The invisible books" (Russia / Polonia / Serbia, 2018, 126 '), winner of the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. The film is a tribute to the Russian writer Sergei Dovlatov but also a reflection on the censorship and oppression of the Soviet regime that constantly refuses to be published. of his works.
The screening will be preceded, at 7.30 pm in the Siotto Gallery, by the inauguration of "Reportage" , an exhibition in which the photographers Rosi Giua, Anna Marceddu and Michela Mereu document some realities of the city of Cagliari: from the Roma camps in via San Paolo, in the images of Anna Marceddu, in the Buoncammino prison still a place of detention in the photos of Rosi Giua, while in the reportage by Michela Mereu the degradation of the hill of Tuvumannu is denounced, wounded and abandoned after the stop to the works of a controversial road. The exhibition will remain open for the entire duration of the festival from 7pm to 9pm.
