Officina Film Festival Opens in Sardinia
Decimomannu is preparing to host the very first edition of the Officina Film Festival, an event dedicated to social and…
Metropolis, Lang, Farfa and the Machine of the Present
Recently at the Triennale di Milano, I visited an exhibition where I was particularly struck by a poster by Farfa,…
The Mission (1986)
Roland Joffé’s The Mission is a work that combines the visual power of grand historical cinema with a moral reflection…
Digital Identity: The Khaby Lame Case and the AI Act
In recent years, the boundary between physical presence and digital presence has become increasingly blurred. The recent financial operation involving…
Friedrich Nietzsche Was Not a Transhumanist
Friedrich Nietzsche remains perhaps the most misunderstood thinker of modernity. After the ideological manipulations of the last century, today Transhumanism…
Beyond the Cave of Bits: The Revolution of Analogue AI
In the famous 1999 film The Matrix, humanity has been subjugated by Artificial Intelligences and lives within an interactive neural…
The Chosen, or the trap of inevitable duty
This book is not merely a story of friendship. It is a clinical dissection of inherited burden, intellectual isolation and…
Print the Legend
Print the Legend, directed by Luis López and J. Clay Tweel, is a gripping documentary that chronicles the rise of…
Sardinia Becomes a Star Wars Set
Disney has once again chosen Sardinia as a backdrop for the silver screen. Following The Little Mermaid (Disney’s 2023 live-action…
Artificial Cinema
With the spread and continuous development of increasingly complex and efficient artificial intelligence models for the production of images, sounds…
Horizon
In the borderlands, traversed by survivors of climate change seeking refuge, man confronts his primal nature in a desolate world…
Brothers by Matteo Manunta
(Original title: Fratelli) Martina is a twenty-year-old woman, daughter of a gruff agricultural entrepreneur and a housewife. Since her adolescence,…
What We Become by Christiano Pahler
Shot between Serramanna and Cagliari, What We Become (original title: Come siamo diventati) is a short film that tells the…
S62, Debut Short Film by Niccolò Biressi
Shaken by unpleasant news received during the day, a woman returns home carrying the need to talk to someone. A…
Like When It Rains Outside
(Original title: Come Quando Fuori Piove) Directed by Gian Paolo Vallati and co-written with the inmates of the Massama Penitentiary,…
S’ozzastru (The Wild Olive Tree)
This is the story of a millenary tree, a resilient ambassador of Nature and a silent witness to History. Beneath…
Make Your Choice
In the cold, silent outskirts of Rome, the story of Fabio unfolds—a young boxer forced to follow the path set…
Island for Rent
A bold and timely work that tackles the very relevant issue of selling off resources in exchange for money, a…
Visioni Sarde at the Officina Film Festival
The short films from Visioni Sarde will open the first edition of the Officina Film Festival in Decimomannu. A selection…
My Dad is Superman
A lighthearted and funny short film that also leaves a lasting impression. Muros, late 1980s. Antonio is the son of…
Liver
Marco is an introverted nd solitary man, haunted and traumatized by his past. He has made life choices guided by…
Shakespeare in Smoke
It’s Ric’s first day at work. During a smoke break, he steps out of the office to continue studying his…
Nuraghes – S’Arena
Nightmares haunt Arduè. The memory of his daughter comes alive every night, and the guilt of not having saved her…
Anna by Marco Amenta
A film shot in Sardinia, inspired by a true story that took place there, but which sadly reflects a tragedy…
Will Digital Minds Replace Us? Geoffrey Hinton Thinks So
During a remarkable conference in Oxford, Professor Geoffrey Hinton – known as the “Godfather of Deep Learning” – didn’t mince…
The Thinking Machine: I and AI
“Ego cogito, ergo sum, sive existo”. “I think, therefore I am, or rather, I exist”. With these words, René Descartes…
The Great Blackout
Today, the Iberian Peninsula was hit by a large-scale blackout that affected several regions of Spain and Portugal, highlighting the…
Ireland’s Protests Show Strength for the EU, Despite Challenges
Ireland Faces Its Challenges, But Stands By Its Values Today, around 7,000 people gathered in Dublin city centre as tensions…
The Energy Knot
What if the real challenge wasn’t which energy to use, but who decides how to produce it and for whom?…
Conclave, the Film Everyone Should See
Conclave is the kind of film we should all sit down to watch today, because the Church cannot be without…
The Mural Art of Mauro Patta: Between Beauty and Meaning
His style is unmistakable: fragments of Sardinia reimagined with a contemporary touch. Threads of clothing, faces, and decorative elements define…
Corsica 1755: The Startup
Pasquale Paoli launches a visionary political project: a representative government, an elected assembly, public education. A beta version of modern…
The Paradox of AI: From the Automation of Humans to the Anthropomorphization of Machines
For centuries, we’ve asked humans to become machines. Now, we’re asking machines to become human. This is the paradox of…
Freeing Freedom
In recent years, the international political landscape has seen developments that call for serious reflection. Both in the United States…
From a distant galaxy, a warning for the present
Can a science fiction saga reveal the crisis of our democracies? In 2002, 25 years after the release of the…
The Lexicon of Power: Newspeak
Some words disappear quietly. Not because people stop using them, but because they are replaced, softened, and stripped of their…
Lessons of Life
(credits University of Houston)A philosophy professor stood before his class and had some items in front of him. When class…
The International Day of Zero Waste 2025, again on the environmental impact of fast fashion
Fast fashion refers to the rapid production of inexpensive clothing designed to reflect the latest fashion trends. Clothes are designed,…
The two faces of ignorance
Every day, inevitably, we confront the limits of our knowledge. Ignorance, in itself, simply means “not knowing.” What turns it…
Love and Glory
The new cinematic project dedicated to the young Grazia Deledda has been presented to the press. Director Maria Grazia Perria…
Artificial Intelligence: An Opportunity to Understand
A new creation: but who is the creator? Artificial intelligence (AI) is not just a revolutionary technology; it is a…
A story we must stop telling
There is a story that has been repeating itself for centuries, each time dressed in new words and new faces,…
