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BENTU

• Director: Salvatore Mereu
• ITALY / 2022 / DCP / Colour / 70’ / Italian; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Salvatore Mereu
• Original Work: Antonio Cossu
• Director of Photography: Francesco Piras
• Editing: Andrea Lotta, Salvatore Mereu
• Cast: Peppeddu Cuccu, Giovanni Porcu
• Producer: Elisabetta Soddu, Salvatore Mereu
• Production Co.: Viacolvento
• World Sales: Pascale Ramonda

The wind, a grain field, an experienced old farmer and his best friend, an impatient, young boy... Raffaele has just gathered up his little pile of grain. He has been sleeping in the country for days, waiting for the wind to arrive and help him to separate the grains from the chaff. But the wind will not show up. Far from everyone, he hopes for a miracle. Only young Angelino arrives to visit him every day, making him feel less lonely. Following the Italian neo-realist tradition and entirely spoken in Sardinian, Bentu premiered at the Venice Film Festival. Collaborating with the Master’s degree course in Multimedia Production at the University of Cagliari for the film, Sardinian director Salvatore Mereu says ‘When I read the story by Antonio Cossu, there were many themes that struck a chord with me. The world of childhood, first of all, the suspension of time, humankind pitting itself against nature, and the shift to modernity. But Bentu is also the story of a friendship, a very human relationship between the elderly Raffaele and young Angelino.’

This film is screened with the generous support of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.