Cagliari film festival, cinema protagonist at Palazzo Siotto
An interesting calendar of meetings to reflect on aspects such as censorship, confinement, prisons, pandemics, utopia and school
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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.
Friday 8 July (at 20.30) meeting with Francesco Del Grosso, director together with Matteo Balsamo of the documentary “In front of the line” (Italy, 2020, 82 ') which will be screened at 21.30. The "front line" told through the lens of thirteen photojournalists who with their shots have shown hell, the horrors, the sufferings and the indelible scars of war. The film was awarded at the 2021 International Filmmaker Festival of New York.
The evening of Saturday 9 July is dedicated to "Meeting with the debutants": at 8.30 pm Francesco Tomba , author of "Where the wind is born" (Italy, 2021, 38 '), the film born from the experience that the association cultural Tusitala has matured inside and outside the prisons of Buoncammino and Uta, and Agnese Giovanardi , director of “What counts” (Italy, 2022, 45 '), a documentary on the school experience at the time of the pandemic. The work, which constitutes the author's graduation test at the National Film School (Sicily), has won two prizes as part of the 40th edition of the Bellaria Film Festival.
Also on Saturday but at 8 pm, in collaboration with Trip Sardinia, Cagliari film festival offers “Bocca di Lupo” , a tour focused on the history and evolution of the prison system from the Aragonese era to the present day, starting at 8 pm from the Buoncammino prison.
On Sunday the closing of the curtain on this part of the festival is entrusted to the films of two young authors. At 9 pm “Il miracolo dei rei” will be screened (Italy / Ireland, 2021, 52 ') directed and produced by Alessandra Usai for Hypatia Pitctures and Nical Film, in collaboration with Luce Cinecittà. The film tells the birth of the largest agricultural penal colony in Italy , one of the largest in Europe, active in the territory of Castiadas . The screening will be preceded by a meeting with some members of the production: Massimo Casula , co-producer Zena Film together with Nical films, Maria Rita Frau, costume designer, Antonio Manca , composer of the soundtrack, Francesca Boy , set designer, Claudia Zedda , dialogue writer.
At 10.30 pm it will be the turn of "Querido Fidel" by Viviana Calò (Italy, 2021, 91 '), a stratified, lunar and melancholy human comedy in full harmony with the Neapolitan mood, with Emidio at the center, an elderly Neapolitan communist who lives in myth of the Cuban revolution.
After the summer break, the Cagliari film festival returns on 7 October with an appointment hosted in the Fondazione di Sardegna: the book by Lisa Ginzburg entitled “Jeanne Moreau” (Perrone publisher, 2021) will be presented. The author will be present.
(Unioneonline / vl)
