MEDITERRANEO FILM FESTIVAL – CARBONIA – 10 TO 14 OCTOBER

From 10 to 14 October 2012, the city of Carbonia, Sardinia, will host the sixth edition of the Mediterranean Film Festival and Competition CINEMA / WORK / MIGRATION.
A full four days of special events, exhibitions, concerts, insights but also as cinema, from the international scene and in particular from countries bordering on the Mediterranean, sponsored by the Center for Cultural Services Carbonia Iglesias the Humane Society, in collaboration with the Region of Sardinia and Carbonia-Iglesias Province.

Since its first edition in 1999, the festival will offer the public an aesthetic vision and conceptual cross cultures, ideas, spaces to try to reflect on what could be the future of Sardinia, but also of the entire Mediterranean area, at this time strong economic, political and social.
The festival takes advantage of the artistic direction of director Stephen Obino (“The Gospel According Precarious”, “The Earth Inside”), while the competition is directed by documentary filmmaker Antonello Carboni.
The event is hosted, not surprisingly, in Carbonia city of foundation, built in 1938 by the Fascist regime as a place to house the work and workers coming from everywhere. A city symbol of the painful path, but also of redemption, through which these people have asserted their dignity. A city, for decades a constant struggle for survival, the capital of the province that has the dubious distinction of being the poorest area of Italy.
The festival also has the objective of enhancing the memory and at the same time, the relevance of these struggles physically, developing its program sites of mining archeology recently restored and returned to the community.
A cultural revival as a driver, why not, the social and economic recovery of the south west of Sardinia. Opportunity of development for the entire province with a positive impact on the region through its cultural promotion, but also tourism, creating continuity with what we started in 2007 with the inauguration of the Italian Center of Culture of Coal, and in line with the important recognition obtained by the City of Carbonia, winner of this year’s prestigious European Award of the landscape