Pre-Premiere: On the Beach in Sardinia

On the Coast of Sardinia — Life is Life

Italy, 2026 / Italian, with Hebrew and English subtitles / 111 minutes

Director: Riccardo Milani (“A World Apart”)

Cast: Virginia Raffaele, Giuseppe Ignazio Loi, Diego Abatantuono, Aldo Baglio

Before the film screening: a lecture by Rami Simsulu

At the beginning of the 2000s, on a wild beach in Sardinia, Efisio lived—a stubborn, solitary shepherd, a remnant of a vanishing world. Opposite him stood Giacomo, a determined entrepreneur seeking to turn the area into a luxury resort. Their struggle over a piece of land becomes a confrontation between economic development and the preservation of tradition, between progress and roots, and between dreams of a new future and the fear of losing the local identity. A true story full of humor and emotion about a community torn between the dream of economic prosperity and the fear of losing its place on Sardinia’s magnificent coast.

Lecturer: Rami Simsulu — a Mediterranean basin tour guide specializing in the cultures along its shores.

Lecture title: Sardinia

A journey through the island of Sardinia, with its wonderful beaches and wild mountain range, Barbagia, where a culture of shepherds and highway robbers developed over centuries. This culture has been threatened since the 1960s by massive, modern real-estate projects at the expense of the island’s enchanting nature and its people.