Officina Progetti

Decimomannu is preparing to host the very first edition of the Officina Film Festival, an event dedicated to social and independent cinema with Sardinia and the Sardinian people as its…

In recent years, the boundary between physical presence and digital presence has become increasingly blurred. The recent financial operation involving Khaby Lame fits squarely within this context. The former factory…

Friedrich Nietzsche remains perhaps the most misunderstood thinker of modernity. After the ideological manipulations of the last century, today Transhumanism claims to recognise in the Übermensch its own spiritual forebear.…

In the famous 1999 film The Matrix, humanity has been subjugated by Artificial Intelligences and lives within an interactive neural simulation. Yet the protagonist, Neo, much like in Plato’s Allegory…

This book is not merely a story of friendship. It is a clinical dissection of inherited burden, intellectual isolation and the corrosive cost of unexamined duty within an ultra-traditional framework.…

Print the Legend, directed by Luis López and J. Clay Tweel, is a gripping documentary that chronicles the rise of 3D printing during the pivotal years just before the technology…

Disney has once again chosen Sardinia as a backdrop for the silver screen. Following The Little Mermaid (Disney’s 2023 live-action remake), which turned locations such as Santa Teresa di Gallura,…

With the spread and continuous development of increasingly complex and efficient artificial intelligence models for the production of images, sounds and videos, it almost feels as if machines have become…

In the borderlands, traversed by survivors of climate change seeking refuge, man confronts his primal nature in a desolate world ruled by the law of the strongest. Hidden in an…

(Original title: Fratelli) Martina is a twenty-year-old woman, daughter of a gruff agricultural entrepreneur and a housewife. Since her adolescence, she has lived with her uncle in the city. After…

The heart of Barbagia is a land of those who have known the borders that scar the fields, ancient anxieties, and the passage of time. Between archive and present, the…

Shot between Serramanna and Cagliari, What We Become (original title: Come siamo diventati) is a short film that tells the story of a burnt-out light bulb that disrupts the calm…

Shaken by unpleasant news received during the day, a woman returns home carrying the need to talk to someone. A red telephone becomes her only point of contact with the…

(Original title: Come Quando Fuori Piove) Directed by Gian Paolo Vallati and co-written with the inmates of the Massama Penitentiary, the film tells the story of Ruggero, a man struggling…

This is the story of a millenary tree, a resilient ambassador of Nature and a silent witness to History. Beneath its branches flow the lives of men and women, often…

In the cold, silent outskirts of Rome, the story of Fabio unfolds—a young boxer forced to follow the path set by his father and chase a dream he has never…

A bold and timely work that tackles the very relevant issue of selling off resources in exchange for money, a metaphor that, in some ways, still resonates with what happens…

The short films from Visioni Sarde will open the first edition of the Officina Film Festival in Decimomannu. A selection of nine works, chosen from over two hundred submissions, each…

A lighthearted and funny short film that also leaves a lasting impression. Muros, late 1980s. Antonio is the son of Bobore, the town drunk and laughingstock, and his strict, silent…

Marco is an introverted nd solitary man, haunted and traumatized by his past. He has made life choices guided by science and reason, pursuing a career as a medical researcher…

It’s Ric’s first day at work. During a smoke break, he steps out of the office to continue studying his theater script. Ric dreams of becoming an actor, but when…

Nightmares haunt Arduè. The memory of his daughter comes alive every night, and the guilt of not having saved her torments him. Once he discovers the name of her killer,…

A film shot in Sardinia, inspired by a true story that took place there, but which sadly reflects a tragedy shared by many regions around the world. With this work,…

During a remarkable conference in Oxford, Professor Geoffrey Hinton – known as the “Godfather of Deep Learning” – didn’t mince his words: digital intelligence may soon outpace us and catch…

“Ego cogito, ergo sum, sive existo”. “I think, therefore I am, or rather, I exist”. With these words, René Descartes drew a boundary between being and illusion. To think was…

Today, the Iberian Peninsula was hit by a large-scale blackout that affected several regions of Spain and Portugal, highlighting the fragility of the European electricity system. The failure began around…

Ireland Faces Its Challenges, But Stands By Its Values Today, around 7,000 people gathered in Dublin city centre as tensions over immigration spilled onto O’Connell Street. On one side, an…

What if the real challenge wasn’t which energy to use, but who decides how to produce it and for whom? The engineer gazed out the window at the sunset. The…

Conclave is the kind of film we should all sit down to watch today, because the Church cannot be without a pope. Released in theaters at the end of 2024,…

His style is unmistakable: fragments of Sardinia reimagined with a contemporary touch. Threads of clothing, faces, and decorative elements define the time and place of his mural work. He is…

Pasquale Paoli launches a visionary political project: a representative government, an elected assembly, public education. A beta version of modern democracy. A glitch in the system of the Ancien Régime.…

For centuries, we’ve asked humans to become machines. Now, we’re asking machines to become human. This is the paradox of artificial intelligence: after pushing people toward extreme specialization, today we’re…

In recent years, the international political landscape has seen developments that call for serious reflection. Both in the United States and Russia, we’ve witnessed a growing concentration of power in…

Can a science fiction saga reveal the crisis of our democracies? In 2002, 25 years after the release of the first film, George Lucas returned to the Star Wars universe…

Some words disappear quietly. Not because people stop using them, but because they are replaced, softened, and stripped of their impact. This happens everywhere: in politics, in the economy, and…

(credits University of Houston)A philosophy professor stood before his class and had some items in front of him. When class began, wordlessly he picked up a large empty mayonnaise jar…

Fast fashion refers to the rapid production of inexpensive clothing designed to reflect the latest fashion trends. Clothes are designed, manufactured and brought to market at an incredibly fast pace.…

Every day, inevitably, we confront the limits of our knowledge. Ignorance, in itself, simply means “not knowing.” What turns it into “the mother of all evils,” to quote Plato, is…

The new cinematic project dedicated to the young Grazia Deledda has been presented to the press. Director Maria Grazia Perria describes it as follows: “The idea originated several years ago;…

In recent years, the temptation to embrace sovereignism and defend the national identity of individual European states has become a powerful proposition. But what identity do we truly want? That…

A new creation: but who is the creator? Artificial intelligence (AI) is not just a revolutionary technology; it is a reflection of our choices, values, and vision for the future.…

There is a story that has been repeating itself for centuries, each time dressed in new words and new faces, a narrative that the masses have always found easy to…