Anno2025
RegiaEnrico Pau
Durata15'
Lingua minoritariaSardinian
TipologiaShort Film
Sinossi
At an unspecified time, in a location in central Sardinia, among centuries-old holm oak forests and large granite boulders, a community composed exclusively of children (with the exception of a woman who seems to have a shamanic function) recites and sings in the Sardinian language old nursery rhymes, ancient sayings, curses and magic formulas collected by the Nobel Prize-winning writer Grazia Deledda and published in 1895 in the essay “Popular Traditions of Nuoro in Sardinia”. The narration unfolds in a crescendo of recitation enriched by archive footage (Tonino Casula, Remo Branca, Piero Pirari) and by traditional Sardinian sounds and music.
Biografia
Enrico Pau lives in Cagliari, where he taught Italian in high schools (until 2021) and Theater History at the University. 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 collaborated for a long time with RAI as a radio director and scriptwriter. 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.
