Enrico Pau lives in Cagliari, where he taught Italian in high schools (until 2021) and Theater History at the University. Theater was an integral part of his artistic education, an experience marked by the meeting with Professor Gigi Livio at the University of Cagliari. As a young man he acted, directed and organized for various companies in his city, including the cooperative Teatro di Sardegna, Il Crogiuolo and Il Palazzo d’Inverno where he collaborated for a long time with Rino Sudano, one of the fathers of Avant-garde Theater in Italy. He has experimented, and continues to do so, in the field of visual arts with drawing, visual poetry and performances in which his passion for theater and expressive lines marked by conceptual art merge. He has collaborated for a long time with RAI as a radio director and scriptwriter. He has been a theater critic for the culture and entertainment pages of the Sassari newspaper La Nuova Sardegna for over twenty years. He directed the films La Volpe e l’Ape, Storie di Pugili, L’Anatema di Aquilino, Pesi Leggeri, Voci sul Mare, Jimmy della Collina, L’Ultimo Miracolo, L’Accabadora, Maria di Isili and L’Ombra del Fuoco. His films have participated, often in competition, at the festivals of Locarno, Venice, Clermont Ferrand, Giffoni, Angers, Karlovy Vary, Palm Springs, Bobbio, Is Real, La Maddalena, Annecy, Ajaccio, Shanghai, Cape Town, the Trento Film Festival and the Fiorenzo Serra Film Festival, receiving awards and mentions.
Monica Dovarch
visual anthropologist, documentary maker, producer and cinematographer
Monica Dovarch, visual anthropologist (MA Visual Anthropology – Goldsmiths, London). She lives between Italy and Germany, working mostly as an independent documentary filmmaker. She worked for Arte TV, making feature films and short films as first assistant director and production coordinator; she also worked as a director of photography for documentaries and music videos. She studied Anthropology at the University of Bologna, where she lived for four years. Afterwards, she attended a Master of Art in Visual Anthropology at Goldsmiths University. Shortly before starting the Master in London, she attended a Visual Anthropology workshop held by David and Judith MacDougall, organized by ISRE Sardegna in Nuoro. She looks at any kind of project with her anthropological background that has always characterized her cinematic approach. After studying Anthropology she started to look at her Sardinian roots, discovering a fascinating island. Since then her research and her works, both written and filmed, are set in Sardinia. She has written about Sardinian funerary rituals and archaic euthanasia; she has filmed traditional Sardinian music and instrument-making techniques, healing herbs, endemic habitats, permaculture, archaeology, idioms and longevity. Some of the most important films she has directed are: S’Orchestra in Limba (2015), Colori Primari (2016), Climbing the Elixir (2019) e Un Pioniere nel Sottosuolo (2023).
Alessandro Gagliardo
director, editor and archivist
Alessandro Gagliardo is an Italian director, archivist and editor. Among his latest works are the feature film Gli ultimi giorni dell’umanità (2022), co-directed with Enrico Ghezzi and presented out of competition at the 79th Venice International Film Festival; Carme (2023) for the musician Daniela Pes; Sacramento (2024) for the musician Iosonouncane. In March 2025 he presented the Archivio Per il Cinema Indipendente Italiano, a project that he conceived, curated, digitized and developed computer-based starting in 2023.
Julie Perreard
director and editor
Julie Perreard is a director of documentaries and fiction films. She began her career in editing, a profession she held for ten years before devoting herself fully to her projects. Originally from Corsica, she draws her inspiration from this land, which deeply permeates her work. whether fictional or documentary, are rooted in this territory, which shapes their sensory and emotional framework. The Corsican language, closely linked to its identity, naturally runs through its stories. It is the language of emotions, of the psyche, of the visceral or filial connection to the land. It is an object of fascination and desire for those who have lost the use of it. Over the years, Julie Perreard has delivered increasingly personal stories. Her work has been screened several times at the Babel Film Festival: Quastana, portrait of Campagne(s) (2021), Sur la terre nue (2019), Dopu a i muntaneri and Marcumaria (2013). In Tu n’es pas seule – Surellanza, her latest documentary (2024), the Corsican language remains present. It is the one that her young protagonists, “gluer” activists, reappropriate, at the same time as the walls of their island, to legitimize their feminist struggle on their land. Through her sensitive and committed films, Julie Perreard contributes, in her own way, to preserving and transmitting this language, considered a minority language. Without artifice, she strives to anchor it in modernity, to make it vibrant and desirable.
Sabrina Rasom
linguist and director of the Ladin Cultural Institute and the Ladin Museum of Fassa
Sabrina Rasom is Director of the Ladin Cultural Institute and of the Ladin Museum of Fassa Valley and was former responsible for the Unit of Ladin Language Policy (for the use of the local language in the public administration and for community prestige planning) of the Comun general de Fascia, in the Province of Trento, Italy. She studied foreign languages and did her PhD in syntactic variation and Ladin syntax in Padova; later she worked as researcher on language acquisition in the Ladin School for the University of Trento. She collaborates as professor with the University of Bolzano-Bressanone for the advanced training course for Ladin teachers in the Ladin School of Fassa Valley. In the last 3 years she has been working, as promoter and part of the scientific table, on CLAM2021 (Cimbro-Ladino-Mocheno), the sociolinguistic inquiry for the minority languages of the Region Trentino-Southtyrol. Her work and interests focus on dialectology and minority languages, corpus and status planning and the relationship between identity, minority language and social responsibility for the safeguarding of endangered languages, as well as on didactics of minority languages. She was former Vice Chair of the Network to Promote Linguistic Diversity NPLD for which, at the moment, she is running the ECCA project (European Charter Classroom Activities) bringing together young students of European language regions.
