SARDINIA FILM FESTIVAL – SASSARI – 25 TO 30 JUNE

The seventh edition of the Sardinia Film Festival begins Monday, June 25 at 17.30 with a screening of the first 21 films in competition between the 183. Red in the classroom (international) and the Green (national) of the Quadrilateral of Sassari, the audience can enjoy a selection of works belonging to the seven award categories: Fiction International, National Fiction, Documentary, Experimental, Animation, and Video Art Showcase Sardinia.
Among the international courts, do not miss the animation “Keha malu” (“Body Memory”) Ulo Pikkov of Estonia, the video-art “Coucoune” of the Israeli Golan Shimrit; fiction “Recycling” of Croatian Branko Istvancic and that which comes from Germany “Apele tac” (Silent River) by Anca Miruna Lazarescu.
Among the Italian short films are to be reported an original musical drama “Gianni Schicchi” by director Francis Visco, with characters singing in Baroque style, the documentary “Midnight Bingo” by Antonio Longo on the legendary art of getting the Neapolitans, and the short animation “Neoseme” Alex Ledda for Class Showcase Sardinia.
The official opening of the festival is at 21 in the courtyard of the Quadrilateral. After the greetings of the President of the event, Tantaro Angelo, president of the Film and Sassari, Carlo Dessi, will be put up three documentaries in competition. For the first, “Amanar Tamasheq”, will be the director, the Spaniard Lluis Escartín. The documentary follows the days of a tribe to tell the plight of the Tuareg nomads of the desert as a stateless people, often forced to live in refugee camps, regarded with suspicion by the western world. The film anticipates the day “Focus Africa” (Wednesday 27). The journalist and film critic Sergio Naitza and producers of his “For us it was Forbidden Cinema” – the second film projection – will participate in the opening night. The documentary Naitza collects testimonies and anecdotes of the extras who worked in the film by Mario Monicelli “Forbidden”, an adaptation of the novel “The Mother” by Grazia Deledda, built in 1954 on the set of natural Tissi, Aggius and other places of Gallura. The third and last short film of the evening, “Between two worlds. Portrait of Mary Jacob” by Francesco Satta, is a tribute to the writer nuorese author of numerous works including “Diary of a teacher” and “Archipelagos”. Satta recounts experiences and life choices, especially the decision in the mid-fifties, leaving Sardinia and Italy and moved to Denmark where he currently lives.

info: www.sardiniafilmfestival.it