The new Sardinian directors

Admired or awarded at festivals, reported by critics, followed with attention by an audience not only on the island, the films of the greatest Sardinian directors are characterized by a wide thematic spectrum, a symbol of a contemporary regional imagination capable of effectively representing the historical, geographical and cultural plurality of the island.

In fact, their geographical and professional origins are different and, consequently, their poetics, which fluctuate from the eternal problem of crime in inland areas (“The Destination” by Piero Sanna, “Archipelaghi” by Giovanni Columbu) to the modern metropolitan story (“An Impossible Crime” by Antonello Grimaldi, “Lightweight” by Enrico Pau), from social documentarism (“The Last Race”, “Little Fishing” by Enrico Pitzianti) to the world of childhood by Peter Marcias.

The literary inspiration of some titles (“An Impossible Crime” by Mannuzzu, “Archipelaghi” by Giacobbe, “Sos Laribiancos” by Masala) also indicates the harmony with the richness of the Sardinian novel, traditional and not.
And again, the languages range from Pau's paradocumentarism to Columbu's testimonial fragmentation, from Grimaldi's suggestive visual symbology to the internalization, almost dreamlike, of the local identity of Salvatore Mereu's “Three Steps Dance”.
Finally, the constant use of local speech and the constant presence of actors “taken from the street” should be emphasized, without whose contribution even images “from the real” would become a pure landscape device and not already an author's vocation

strongly rooted in their land.

Update

19/9/2023 - 18:43