The X edition of terre di confine filmfestival is now over.
First, we want to thank the Autonomous Region of Sardinia and the Majors of Oristano, Solarussa e Asuni, who again fully trusted and supported our project.
During this festival, thanks to the presence of Irish directors and producers, we have been confronted with a social context very similar to our Sardinian one. First, a geography composed of small centers. Secondly, a forced emigration which plagued the Irish population from the second half of the nineteenth century - and, until the last quarter of the XIX century, high unemployment rates (which now appear to be less dramatic).
With our tenth edition, we also wanted to take stock of what we achieved in recent years in Asuni.
In this spirit, we again invited to join us, as in 2005, the organizational and managing team of the Midnight Sun Film Festival. Their event takes place every year in Sodankylä, a small town in Finnish Lapland, in June, during the five days of the summer solstice. With an audience of some 25,000 - 30,000 persons, it is perhaps the most prominent in Northern Europe: each year it gathers an impressive community of great directors, actors, film critics and international producers.
So many people helped us and we would like to thank them all. Our film festival is a collective work only made possible by voluntary support and special co-operation and attention offered by multiple operators. Here below a list of their names: to all of them, our special and heartfelt thanks.
Francesco Abate – writer; Academy of Fine Arts 'Mario Sironi' in Sassari; B&B Casa Ducale, Sassari, B&B Domus, Nureci, B&B Is Scabas, Solarussa, Sardegna Hotel, Cagliari; Joonas Berghäll and Satu Majava, Oktober production company; Davide Bini - director and filmmaking teacher, Academy of Fine Arts, Sassari; Bernardo Bolognesi - director and actor; Guy Borlée - Cineteca di Bologna, Head of ‘Il Cinema Ritrovato’ e ‘Sotto le stelle del Cinema’; Katia Brunetto - Cultfinlandia, 'cinema' section; Luigi Cabras - Cineteca Sarda in Cagliari; Letizia Camedda - exhibitions; la Cantina Sociale della Vernaccia di Oristano, wine producer; Carasao Viaggi, travel agency by Pietro Solinas in Sassari; Antonio Caria - journalist; Mario Cataldo - Deputy Major of Bonnannaro; Vincenzo Cau, Asuni; Annamaria Cicerchio – interviews; Cineteca Sarda Società Umanitaria in Cagliari; Simone Cireddu – videomaker; Umberto Cocco - journalist; Busachi's Youth Council: Elisabetta Caboni, Federico Caboni, Stefano Caboni, Matteo Casula, Salvatore Contini, Antonella Cossu, Andrea Crobu, Cristian Fadda, Francesca Fadda, Monica Fadda, Alessandro Fais, Ilaria Marras, Giuseppe Masones, Giovanna Nonnis and Maria Caterina Piga; Coop. Sociale Il Seme, Solarussa - catering; Jacopo Cullin - actor and director; Valeria Dalle Donne - Cineteca di Bologna, Audiovisual section; Daniela Deriu – journalist; Tore Deriu; Giuseppe Dessena - Councillor for Education, Cultural Heritage, Information, Entertainment and Sport, Regione Autonoma della Sardegna; Nicolina Dongu; Serafina Dongu – associazione Sinopis di Bonnannaro; Stefano Ferrando – photographer; Fondazione Sardegna Film Commission; Paola Gaidano - OSVIC di Oristano; Glee's – Irish and Sardinian music: Paolo Cimino, Annalisa Ghiani, Claudio Kalb, Giuseppe Lo Vasco, Simone Milia, Rosario Vargiu e Massimiliano Viani; Imparis – Associazione culturale di Solarussa; Pirkko Maria Koistinen Rossi - cultural coordinator; the team of Midnight Sun Film Festival, Sodankylä, Finland - Ari Lehtola (Executive Director), Timo Malmi (Artistic Director), Milja Mikkola (Programme Manager) and Johanna Saarinen (Production Manager); Andrea Loi – photographer; Battista Loi - meetings in Asuni; Vittorio e Mirko Loria - Loria Impianti di Asuni; Anna Gloria Mannoni - photos; Rossano Mameli – photographer; Laura Marcellino - author and producer; Tonino Marras - Major of Bonnannaro; Maria Masia – MEA, Museum of Emigration in Asuni; Luana Mele - logistics in Solarussa; Paola Mereu – film editor; Sergio Miali – teacher, Academy of Fine Arts in Sassari, and adviser, Municipality of Bonnannaro; Alessandro Mirai - photographer and videomaker; Gianfranco Mura – photographer; Museo Diocesano Arborense in Oristano; Dino Musu and Paola Sarai di Asuni; Aileen O'Carroll - producer, Atom Films; Manuela Obinu – adviser, Municipality of Solarussa; don Stephen Ogua Adraka - Parson of San Giovanni Battista, Asuni; Hilla Okkonen - Ambasciata di Finlandia a Roma; Marja Pallassalo - Finnish Film Foundation; Chiara Petza - logistics and distribution; Roberto Petza – chef of Restaurant S'Apposentu in Siddi and his pupils (Accademia di alta cucina sarda Casa Puddu); Gionata Petza - Major of Asuni; Barbara Pinna - visual artist; Gianfranca Pinna - photographer, Dyaphrama; Pier Paolo Piras - projections in Solarussa; Marco Piras, adviser for Sardinian language issues; Riccardo Pittau – musiciam; Alessandro Ponzeletti - art historian and adviser, Municipality of Bonnannaro; Antonella Puddu – actress; Alessandro Puddu, Asuni; the directors: Michela Anedda, Bonifacio Angius, Anne Riiitta Ciccone, Alex Fegan, Katja Gauriloff, Matteo Incollu, Simone Lecca, Tomaso Mannoni, Tadhg O' Sullivan, Piero Tomaselli, Dario Zanasi; Matteo Rinaldi – web development, Officina Immagine; Restaurant 'Da Salvatore' by Gianluigi Corrias, Oristano; Nevina Satta - CEO, Fondazione Sardegna Film Commission; Sergio Scavio - director and filmmaking teacher; Bar Secci in Asuni: Francesca Macis, Elia Sanna, Raimondo, Vanessa e Virgilio Secci; Sara Sechi (chef) and Barbara Tidore (president) of cineclub 'L'Ultimo Spettacolo', Sassari; sponsor: artisanal brewery La Volpe e il Luppolo in Simaxis (OR), wines by cantina vinicola Agricola SOI and TV screens by Trony, Oristano; Solferino Sodini, Sassari; Alberto Sterzi - meetings in Asuni; 'Sweet dreams' – unexpected performance; Giuseppe Tamponi – photographer, associazione Dyaphrama; TDCFF 2017 – staff: Massimo Atzori - subtitles and translations, Carla Caprioli - web communication, Valentina Careddu and Monica Magro – press office, Patrizia Garau - web and community management, Alberto A. Loche - organisational coordinator, Giuseppe Loche - project manager, Silvia Oppo – logistics and sponsors, Sandro Sarai - organisational secretariat and collateral events, Francesco Virdis – organisere; Guido Tendas - Major of Oristano; Mario Tendas - Major of Solarussa; Mariarita Tola – consultant; Tore Tolla in Asuni and Renata Tuveri – photos.
A special thank you to our passionate and nomadic audience which courageously joined us in places not always at hand; again, a big thank to the local audience which followed our events with sympathy and attention.
See you at the next edition of terre di confine filmfestival!
Nello Rubattu - president, Su Disterru onlus
Paolo Zucca - artistic director, terre di confine filmfestival
Photo by Patrizia Garau: Virgilio Secci at Bar Secci, Asuni, 2017.