The mistral "breaks" time, weaves together fate and destiny, suggests new emotions : if all this then becomes a short film that also wins the "David di Donatello", then we understand why thanks to the work of Nico Bonomolo it travels to sublime levels " Passaggi d'autore: Mediterranean plots” , the eighteenth short film festival which started today in Sant'Antioco where it was born in 2005 and where the “Immagini” cinema club that organizes it is located.
Among the shorts, "Maestrale" stands out, an animated film by the Sicilian Nico Bonomolo, this year's winner of the David, present today online at the screening with the directors of the other shorts, the Portuguese Laura Gonçalves and Kassim Yassin Saleh , born in Djibouti but at home in Rome for a long time. Bonomolo from Palermo knows well what the mistral wind implies and its impact on the Mediterranean: «Cross and delight of Sicily and Sardinia for the civilizations born and the flow of migrants that characterized it and still characterizes it - he explains - and in my case it was born before the title of the short".
The work recounts the adventure of an employee who notices a boat for sale, buys it, leaves for a desert island, finds love, returns to the mainland, finds his job again but sees a new boat for sale again. «A film – reveals the David prize – that does not give answers, perhaps because we delude ourselves that we can find answers in the new, but is that really the case?».
The programming begins with a homage to Pier Paolo Pasolini on the centenary of his birth: two episodes of the great intellectual, " La ricotta" , on view in the Council hall, (1963), and " The Earth seen from the Moon" ,(1967), plus " The walls of Sana'a" , a documentary appeal to UNESCO, shot in Yemen at the end of the shooting of the Decameron (1970). The evening instead is dedicated to the Sarajevo film festival, one of the most important film events in the Balkans.