After receiving many awards for his horror shorts, Sardinian director Alfredo Moreno scores with a thriller. The film "Life" won the award for best foreign film at the New York Film and Cinematography Awards 2025. A prestigious recognition for an intense and raw work, shot mostly in Sassari, among hidden and forgotten corners of the city.
The director received the award in New York and confessed: "I couldn't sleep because of the emotion". A joy that he wanted to share with the cast: Moustafa Khlaf, a Syrian resident in Sassari, Michela Putzu and Roberto Bilardi.
The film tells the story of Omar, a young Syrian who, overwhelmed by desperation, lets himself be dragged into a spiral of degradation between nightclubs, drugs and pranks. But in his tormented journey, his inner struggle and desire for redemption also emerge. "His interpretation," explains the director, "contains an incredible story of loss, love and survival. Life is a cross-section of the condition of those who live on the margins and a bitter reflection on the reality of migrants in a Europe that closes its borders."
