In Sardinia there are those who want nothing to do with fossil energy sources. The committees and associations do not miss opportunities to make themselves heard and block the projects of new energy infrastructures that the island needs instead. A political medal that the grillini (from the first hour) attached to their chests. A battle to safeguard the environment, which at the presentation at the Sardinian film library of Cagliari sixth edition of the film festival Life after oil, was summarized in the sign "methane is an expired project". Natural gas on the island has been talked about for years. After having reclaimed it and with the work of the networks started in various Municipalities, we need to see how we will proceed with the main transport backbone. But Sardinia through cinema, with its thematic festival, directed by director Massimiliano Mazzotta, celebrates the end of the golden age of traditional energies.
Martis (2014 and 2015), Stintino (2016) Santa Teresa Gallura (2017 and 2018) were the editions that preceded the event which starts tomorrow and touches various cities. Two days in Cagliari, 12 and 13 September, Ottana, on 14 September and then Santa Teresa from 18 to 21 September. The leitmotif cinema for the environment innervates the screenings in a socio-economic context proven by the long-term exploitation of energy resources. “Life for green – Creative industries and the challenge of sustainability”, “Syria”, “Existence”, “The wash”, “Be' jam be the never ending”, “Veranda augusta”, “Hope”, “With or whitout you”: titles with the aim of looking to the future with new perspectives and with a very heavy legacy of exploitation and hard work.Perhaps Sardinia would be even further behind, but errors serve to correct the path. And art in all its forms cannot be overlooked. Thinking yesterday of a large center of Italy in the economic boom, i gave a realistic readingThe mayor of Ottana, Franco Saba:“After the fall of the petrochemical industry, nothing remains: only stuff to be cleaned and reclaimed”. The film by Paolo Carboni, out of competition, "Woe to the vanquished: bread and asbestos" tries to talk about that economic and work season, but also of the battle against asbestos that kills.
The festival is supported by the Sardegna Film Commission Foundation which this year reached the record of 612 registered works and 567 selected from 67 countries. The social value oriented towards the sustainability of the territories also involved two schools of Santa Teresa and San Pasquale which present works out of competition. Initiatives such as “Life After Oil” are welcome – he explained the Mayor of Cagliari Paolo Truzzu. They give us the opportunity to stop and reflect and to plan a future that can ignore fossil fuels. Cagliari is hosting the first phase of the festival and wants to give the utmost importance to these issues. It cannot escape, however, that the artistically treated topics also have a political content. If the vision of these works will really dig into the consciences of those who have to make decisions, the result of the review will be centered. Sardinia will soon open the confrontation with the new Conte 2 government, which has declared itself very green.A delicate match with the politics of reversed roles on the island and in Rome. In addition to the projections and judgments on the films, this month we will talk again about the regional request to postpone decarbonisation to 2030 rather than 2025, so as not to compromise the island's energy structure. A kind of alarm because energy alternatives are not ready and because many jobs are at stake. If cinema and representation run the experience and less easy. "Life After Oil" wants us to look and go further, but on the basis of pre-announced political choices, the Sardinians run the risk of going in the opposite direction to what they will have seen in the films of this interesting review.
