Regione Autonoma della Sardegna

In late 18th century Venice, in a convent school for girls, Teresa, a student with prophetic gifts, joins forces with some amazing music-makers. They create a new kind of pop, bright and bold, and challenge the ancient and rigid system.

Cagliari in the 1940s is a big city for those who come from a small village. Annetta arrives in the days befpre Italy enters WWII and the Allies begin bombing the city. She's a 25-year old woman, always dressed in black, solitary and quiet, typical of the beauty of those from the most sparse areas of Sardegna.

The story of Mary is reinvented, no longer a spectator but a courageous architect of her own existence.

Alessandro is a local events singer, he abuses alcohol and plays slot machines. When he meets a young woman, Francesca, he tries to do everything to help her to find and stay with her little son.

Jimmy is an 18-year-old boy who is dissatisfied with his life in a small town in Sardinia. He feels he has nothing in common with those who live around him and soon turns to crime, ending up in a reformatory. But it is precisely within those walls, surrounded by reassuring hills, that Jimmy seems to have the chance to redeem himself...

Raffaele has just assembled his little pile of grain, which serves as his provisions for an entire year. Not wishing to get caught unprepared, he has been sleeping in the countryside for days, far from everybody, waiting for the wind to arrive and help him at last to separate the wheat-grains from the chaff. But the wind will not show up. Only Angelino comes to visit him every day, making him feel less lonely. Maybe one day, when he is all grown up, Raffaele will lend him his indomitable mare and he will finally manage to ride her. But Angelino has no intention of waiting.

A hundred years of images researched and found, Fragments of film, family reels, pixels. A martyr saint, a warrior. Saint Efisio, an icon who moves the people. A holiday, a rite which repeats outside of time and brings with it the masks of dominations past and present, of an island; Sardinia. What escapes? What remains? Question and answer is the foundation of editing And renews the past in another past. In this encounter of deferred glances, the holy day is renewed again in memory and in dream, far from known places.

'L'ultimo pugno di terra' (The Last Fistful of Land) is a 1966 documentary film directed by Fiorenzo Serra about the anguish and instability of the lower classes in a destitute Sardinia. Originally commissioned by the Sardinian regional government as a celebratory piece on the 'miraculous' effects of the 'Piano di Rinascita della Sardegna' (Sardinia's Rebirth Plan), the film instead shows an island still 'standing still in time', barely affected by the painful oxymoron of the inevitable changes taking place.

This is the story of a father and son who become close when it’s already too late.

Fiancées Alberto and Vittoria lead a quiet life, despite Alberto's good-for-nothing friends always dragging him into their petty thefts. The group falls under the spell of the mysterious Monsieur Le Blanc, a shady character who has just came into town, and offers them a fair amount of money and drugs to rob an armored truck. It's a dangerous job and it'll be Alberto who'll pay the ultimate price. His father then enters the picture, determined to get revenge on Le Blanc and his associates.

Princesa is a young Nigerian woman who arrived in Sardinia as a victim of human trafficking. There is a syncretism on the island, between the beliefs of a primitive animism, traditional Christianity and the more recent faith of the Nigerian Evangelical church. Princesa's face reflects an inner world dominated by fear, the break with her own land, and the desire to make good in a new one. Footage shot during a Nigerian funeral rite and a sequence from a Nollywood drama both contain biographical traces of the lead character. Princesa has made a choice, but she is not yet free.

A collective work achieved by dismantling and reshaping the artwork by artists Luca Carboni, Alberto Diana, Riccardo Giacconi, Alessandro Penta, Vittoria Soddu, and Carolina Valencia, realized for the “REMIX” project. The result is a new visionary, heterogeneous and highly contemporary artwork.

Vera, a forty-year-old woman of Romanian origin, finds herself unemployed once again and is forced to move Kali, a young Nigerian girl, from one city to another across sun-scorched Sardinia: a seemingly simple ‘task’ turns into a journey that lasts a lifetime.