The first work by Tommaso Santambrogio, The Oceans are the True continents, was the last screening of this nineteenth edition of Passaggi d’Autore: Intrecci Mediterranei, to close the festival in style. The director speaks in the theater after the screening together with the artistic director Ado Hasanović who defines his film as “beautiful, strong and sad, painful”. The film intertwines the conservation and preservation of Cuban history, the future and the present, a reflection on …

Finally here we are! Marta Bulgherini presented the awards of this nineteenth edition during the evening of December 7th, the winners will win the magnificent sculptures by Antonio Cauli, a heavy, dense and concrete memory of the festival and the territory that hosts it. These are two sculptures made of andesite, a volcanic stone characteristic of our island, on two different bases: one in wild olive and the other in juniper. Initially it is the …

Wednesday 6 December is the penultimate day of the festival for this year. After the tribute to Anna Magnani in the company of Francesco Crispino, the evening starts with the last screenings dedicated to Intrecci Mediterranei, the competitive section dedicated to the films of the mare nostrum. The first guest connected remotely is the director Sabina Vajrača who brings the film Sevap/Mitzvah, a story of the fears and uncertainties of the Jewish people in south-eastern …

On the evening of Wednesday 6 December, a selection of this year’s most important short films was screened at the festival directly from Sarajevo Film Festival, one of the best-known film festivals in south-eastern Europe. Among these, the film directed by Barbara Zemljic, Kako sem se naučila obešati perilo (How I Learned to Hang Laundry), guest with us in the screening room. A film that talks about a meeting between the two protagonists, the relationship …

Against the backdrop of a decadent Cuba and in a black and white torn by the Caribbean rain, the young Alex and Edith, the elderly Milagros and the children Frank and Alain, live their lives, made up of small daily gestures, stories of the past and dreams of future. While the specter of separation hovers over all of them. Alex and Edith, two young actors in their 30s, live their relationship made of small gestures …

The day of December 5th begins with the screening of CortoAmbiente dedicated to the students of the high schools of Sant’Antioco, in collaboration with the Avezzano Cinema and Environment festival, at the end of which there was a meeting with Franco Sardi of the Italian Touring Club and Valentina Traini of Cinema and Environment Avezzano. We continue with the usual appointment with Passeggiando con gli Autori, of which you can see the episode in the …

The evening of Monday 4 December is dedicated as scheduled to Sardinian cinema, with the Intrinas section, presented by Marta Bulgherini who states that from year to year, following the festival, she notices how the quality of the works is growing more and more, especially within the territory of Sardinia. The first guest of the evening is Michela Anedda, director of the fantastic short film shot in stop-motion Blu which tells of a very bizarre …

The morning of Sunday 3 December begins with the appointment with Walking with the authors, together with Marta Bulgherini and Trëndelina Halili, selected at the festival in the Intrecci Mediterranei section, with her film Prishtinë, scheduled for Tuesday 5 December. See the episode in the following link. We continue with the homage to Anna Magnani with the screening in the theater of Una voce umana, an episode from the 1948 film L’Amore by Roberto Rossellini, …