Emilia and Caterina write letters to each other revisiting their adolescent memories and earliest experiences at a boarding school in the 1950s. Did they choose the lives they truly wanted, or only those that they dared to imagine?

Giulia Cosentino BIO Giulia Cosentino is a film director, screenwriter and researcher, born in Catania, Sicily. She graduated in cinema and visual art attending Roma Tre University, Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, Nova in Lisbon and Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona...

Perla Sardella BIO Perla Sardella is editor and documentarist, born in Jesi in 1991. She graduated in Cinema and Multimedia Arts at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, in Milan. She works with still and moving images, and with different formats including linear audiovisual, photography and video installations...

Since the seventh century AD, Sado has been called the "island of exile". Unwelcomed people by the shogunate such as homeless, artists and politicians were exiled, some of them even put to forced labour in the mines. Their spirits, trapped in the depths of the earth, will never see the sky again.

Davide Palella graduates at NABA in 2019 with his first medium-length film, Sirio. In 2021, he receives a development grant at In Progress with his new project, Shura, mentored by Michelangelo Frammartino. Shura is then selected at the 2023-2024 Biennale College Cinema. Sonnenstube is realized during the 2022 Locarno Spring Academy and screened at more than 20 international film festivals. Sado is his latest work.

When a local community member disappears, a boy faces an early memory, seeking comfort in the indigenous traditions, healing rituals, and guidance from his grandfather.

Angello was born in Bogotá, Colombia and studied filmmaking at ESCAC in Barcelona. He works as a filmmaker and cinematographer who actively balance narrative, documentary and commercial work. His short film DULCE (2018) released by NYT Op Docs was selected in Sundance, Toronto, IDFA, among other film festivals and won Best Documentary at Palm Springs Film Fest and Gran Prix at Tampere Film Festival. LAPÜ (2019) his first feature had its World Premiere at Sundance and the European Premiere at the Berlinale and won Best Cinematography at the Boston Film Festival...

In a quiet, timeworn Greek village nestled high in the mountains above an ancient volcano, a group of elderly villagers must move the remains of their ancestors to a mausoleum at the peak of the mountain of Prophet Elias… A docufiction film shot on 8mm, 16mm, and digital.

IRENE ZAHARIADIS (co-director, co-writer): Irene Zahariadis is a writer, filmmaker, and translator living in New York City. Born in Queens, New York, she moved to Nisyros, Greece at the age of two and began schooling in Athens a few years later....

KEVIN WALKER (co-director, co-writer): Kevin Walker is a filmmaker originally from Baltimore, MD, now working out of New York City. He is a co-founder of the filmmaking collective and production company COSMIC SALON. His short film, Roundabout, co-directed with NYC filmmaker Jack Auen, is currently being distributed by Varicoloured HFA...