"castigating the commodification of rural heritage in a way that keeps revealing unexpected depths"

Variety
  • Archive - Festival 36
  • Director: Salvatore Mereu
  • Italy 2020
  • 128 minutes
  • Italian
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

Soaked to the skin, Costantino sinks into the haystack like old timber left on the shore by a stormy sea. Torrential rain has just put out the fire that in a single night ravaged Assandira, a farmstead deep in the woods of Sardinia. But the rain hasn't quenched the pain, the endless remorse for the son lost to the flames, the son he was unable to save. The first to arrive are the carabinieri and the young investigating magistrate: Costantino tries to tell them what happened the previous night, to explain how it all began…

Assandira, based on the novel by Giulio Angioni, comes to the Haifa Festival directly from its world premiere at the Venice Festival.

Filmography: Pretty Butterflies (2012), Tajabone (2010), Sonetàula (2008), Three-Step Dance (2003).


  • Director Salvatore Mereu
  • Production Elisabetta Soddu, Salvatore Mereu
  • Script Salvatore Mereu
  • Cinematography Sandro Chessa
  • Editing Paola Freddi
  • Festivals Venice
  • Actors Gavino Ledda, Anna König, Marco Zucca, Corrado Giannetti, Samuele Mei
  • Source The Match Factory, Cologne