The 19th edition of the "Al Ard Film Festival" kicks off on Tuesday 21 February, the film festival that every year presents dozens of films by Palestinian, Arab, Italian and international authors. The appointment is at the Teatro Massimo in Cagliari, with the organization of the Associazione Culturale Amicizia Sardegna Palestina ODV, financial contribution from the Region of Sardinia, the collaboration of the University of Cagliari and the Humane Society - Cineteca Sarda, and with the patronage of Municipality of Cagliari.
The program was presented in the council chamber in the presence of the president Edoardo Tocco; Mariangela Pedditzi of the Cultural Association Amicizia Sardegna Palestina ODV; Antonello Zanda, director of the Cineteca Umanitaria Sarda; Maria Paola Fanni, president of the FICC; Patrizia Manduchi, professor at the University of Cagliari; Franca Piras, former teacher and expert on the Arab world.
«There will be five evenings, from 21 to 25 February, with screenings, meetings with Sardinian and international directors who will also be present in the hall this year, debates, events in schools and much more. Film screenings will take place every day from 4 to 10 pm, interspersed with meetings with the many guests who will be present at the event this year - explained Mariangela Pedditzi - We received over one hundred films from 30 countries including Italy, Lebanon , Jordan, France, Spain, Netherlands, Iraq, Germany, United Kingdom . Of these, the examining Commission has selected thirty-one, of which seven will be awarded in the final evening».
«The Jury of the Festival is made up of cinema experts and international directors: Monica Maurer (godmother of the Festival, German director and documentary maker), Andrea Mura (Sardinian director and documentary maker), Patrizia Manduchi (professor at the University of Cagliari), Filippo Kalomenidis (writer and screenwriter), Antonello Zanda (Director of the Sardinian film library), Franca Gabriella Piras (former professor at the University of Cagliari), Wasim Dahmash (former Palestinian professor at the University of Cagliari and translator), Ibrahim Nasrallah (Palestinian writer and poet), Almohannad Alkhatoum (Syrian director ), and May Odeh (Palestinian director and producer)," Pedditzi added.
