"For five days, Carbonia will be a cinematographic hub of national and international importance". With these words, Mayor Pietro Morittu and Councilor for Culture Giorgia Meli summarize the value of the Carbonia Film Festival: five days, from November 13 to 17, to tell the story of contemporaneity and the territory through screenings, training sessions, meetings, music and photography . Organized by Csc Carbonia Società Umanitaria - La Fabbrica del Cinema directed by Moreno Pilloni and Csc Cagliari Società Umanitaria - Cineteca Sarda led by Paolo Serra, together with the Region and Municipality and the support of Sardegna Film Commission.
"The festival confirms itself as a space for meeting and discussion that, starting from cinema, offers the public of the territory a journey into contemporaneity", explains the artistic director Francesco Giai Via introducing the event in Cagliari. Among the guests are the directors Milad Tangshir with his Anywhere anytime, appreciated in Venice, and Daniele Gaglianone. Also: Mohamed Jabaly, author and protagonist of the touching Life is beautiful, Rosa Palasciano, interpreter of the highly acclaimed Taxi Monamour, Francesco Costabile, author of Familia, Silvia Luzi and Luca Bellino, at their second fiction direction with Luce; the director Isabella Mari with her documentary Si dice di me .
Other films will then be screened in the Spazio Sardegna with directors Stefano Cau (Easter afternoon), Mario D'Acunto and Gabriele Pappalardo who present the teaser of Sulcis. In closing, great anticipation for Sembra non finita mai, a film resulting from the work in residence of the Carbonia Cinema Giovani Filming Lab 2023, coordinated by director Daniele Gaglianone and created by Erica De Lisio, Francesco Dubini, Maria Elena Franceschini, Marco Mulana, Veronica Orrù and Chiara Stravato.
Other key events include the gentle singer-songwriter Dente with the musical reading Iperbolica, the meeting with Deka Mohamed Osman and Mounir Derbal, winners of the second edition of the photography competition Sguardi plurali sull'Italia plurale, which will be repeated, and the presentation of the graphic novel Nato in Iran in the presence of the author Majid Bita.
"The Carbonia Film Festival," Paolo Serra emphasizes, "is a small reality but capable of thinking big, promoting not only the work of the Center that creates it but an entire territory ." "An opportunity," adds Andrea Contu, cultural operator of La Fabbrica del Cinema, "to bring the best of independent and non-independent, contemporary, Italian and international cinema to Carbonia."