«The recovery of such important spaces, nestled in such a wonderful place, can offer new generations great opportunities, creating an artistic ferment while respecting the environment, as you have been doing for some time».

Antonio Albanese enthusiastically supports the appeal launched by the cultural association “CineArena” - to date there are hundreds of adhesions collected on the island and on the change.org platform - on the occasion of the 19th edition of the festival “Pensieri e Parole: libri e film all'Asinara”, addressed to President Todde for the recovery of the former super prison of Fornelli, the guesthouse of Cala d'Oliva that hosted the judges Falcone and Borsellino, and the famous bunker where the mafia boss Totò Riina was detained.

Guest of the first day of the festival (Saturday 24 August), the Lombard actor and director was awarded for his “Cento domeniche”, a 2023 film written, directed and interpreted by the actor, screened during the evening dedicated to him, which moved and outraged the audience of the island. Sold out both days of the festival hosted in Fornelli, dedicated to cinema, music and literature, one of the four stages of the circuit that also involves the islands of Tavolara, La Maddalena and San Pietro. Great emotion also for the monologue written by Gianni Caria “Rosario va in pensione”, interpreted by the Roman actor Giulio Scarpati, guest of the second evening of the festival (Sunday 25 August) in which the former Public Prosecutor of Sassari, now Deputy Prosecutor, gives voice to the young magistrate Rosario Livatino, his colleague in Agrigento when he was killed by the mafia on 21 September 1990.

"The choice to write something dedicated to Rosario - explained Caria - comes many years after his murder to put time and distance on those events that naturally touched me a lot. I wanted to talk about what was - he added - and what could have been, about the regrets and the erased hopes, about the heroism and sense of duty of this young servant of the State". The director Alessandro Di Robilant dedicated the famous film "Il giudice ragazzino" to the magistrate's story, which starred a very young Scarpati in 1994, who celebrated his thirtieth birthday on the island. "For me it was an honor to play Rosario, then I was also lucky enough to meet his parents - said the actor - I lived this experience as a professional watershed, feeling all the responsibility of the story we were telling".