THE LAND OF WOMEN

The “unspoken” of this film finds its roots in the melancholy and disturbing sentiment expressed by Pre-Raphaelite painting and its fascinating female subjects.
Nature, however, admired and feared in Sturm und Drang, here becomes a character capable of interacting intimately with the protagonist, Fidela, leaving her signs to be deciphered, reacting empathically to her emotions and even becoming a lover through a Panic fusion with everything. Real magic or mere suggestion? Coincidences or Jungian synchronicities? Water, air, earth and fire have been for many departments the best companions on this journey in search of a synaesthetic immersion, of a material, visceral and naturally magical story, supported by the visual power of a Sardinia to be discovered, with its caves, its woods, waters, sacred wells, and symbolic crevices.
The title "La Terra delle Donne" is a tribute to the ancestral power linked to the world of the feminine; from here, however, other socio-cultural reflections arise on the definition of the role of women still tormented by the expectations of others, by misogyny and more or less explicit violence. The most delicate and never too explored theme still remains that of motherhood and its ambivalence: on the one hand, when accepted and desired, be it natural or adoptive, it becomes the vehicle of unconditional love and unprecedented happiness; on the other hand there are motherhoods sought and not found, unwanted ones, those demanded by others, judged, criticized: those that sometimes turn into obsession because they seem the only way to find a place in the world.
But the earth is not only of women, of course: in reality there are many men who move history and make changes, for better or for worse. The identity theme is broad and regardless of sex: it is also a question of being victims or perpetrators, or both.
The most interesting conflict is in fact the inner one, in the search for one's own identity when repression is not accepted and one struggles to emancipate oneself or, simply, when in the face of urgencies one makes impulsive and revealing choices of one's essence. The mysterious masks of the Mamuthones shrouded in smoke in the intro of the film have a bit of the task of ferrying us towards this universal question: who is really behind there?