Sardinia lands on the Venice Lido for the 80th edition of the Venice International Film Festival , and it does so with four feature films and a short film, bringing as a dowry both Sardinian directors and producers, artists who have found a "home" in Sardinia, international co-productions and an increasingly global and sustainability-oriented gaze.
«Very different films - says Gianluca Aste, president of the Sardegna Film Commission Foundation - which reveal a rich heterogeneity of poetic sensibilities and experimental aesthetics, playing between co-productions with a global aspiration, eco-sustainable and ecological films and, last but not least, art house production within the Biennale College program».
It starts on September 1st with "The year of the egg" by Claudio Casale (Diero productions, an Olbia-based company that has been promoting young and short-format cinema for years with the Olbia Film Network together with the Sardinia Film Commission) which experiments the theme of the search for spirituality to deal with infertility in couples.It is a look at our society, "which appears increasingly complex and out of control - comments the director Casale - many choose the clarity offered by a micro-community, whether it is an online forum, a or a trend topic lasting a few days. And in a world that glorifies materialism, the echo of a spirituality at hand attracts more and more people."
The environment and the need to find a perfect balance between nature and technology are the basis of "L'avamposto" , scheduled for the Authors' Days from 3 September, a film made by the Sicilian director Edoardo Morabito , a Dugongo Films production with Rai Cinema. The protagonist is an eco-warrior who has created a model of utopian society in the heart of the Amazon. Sardinia as Amazon therefore for the creation of a very personal outpost of progress.
Also on 3 September, on the occasion of the Venetian Nights, there will be the opportunity to watch the film "Across" by the visual anthropologist Irene Dorighetti , produced by Start and Rai Cinema, together with the Sardinians of Terra De Punt. The film, straddling reality and fiction, has found Porto Pino as the ideal location and tells of a girl who grew up in the Italian Alps with a family linked to scout travel and culture, a real spiritual road movie that focuses on the between society and the environment.
