Cinema Partenio | at 7pm
Directed by: : Luca Walter Mariani, Bastiaan de Haas, Angelo Urgo
Year: 2025
Country: Italy
Running Time: 23′
Produced by: The Factory, CinemAbruzzo
Distributed by: Red Couch Pictures
Plot: In the heart of the Italian Abruzzese mountains, a small community of ageing residents shares their joys and memories. Through them, we get a glimpse of a resilient way of life, in a village that knows it might not exist much longer. This journey, through knowledge, alternating voices and images, seeks to restore a present-day Spoon River Anthology of Italy’s inland areas. Yet here, it’s not the dead who speak, but rather the last guardians of a vanishing land. Those determined to ensure that their stories, history and voices of the place they were born and raised in, are not forgotten. This is the story of a place that does not discard nostalgia, but instead embraces it as a foundation for awareness: because imagining Italy without its inland areas, is just as unthinkable as imagining the body without its spine.