The Municipality of Sant’Anna Arresi, through AngoLazioni Film Festival, launches a new film residency in Sulcis, Sardinia: a 7-day program for emerging filmmakers to experience the territory through cinema, nature, jazz, and everything that can emerge in between.
Over 7 days, the residency will host maximum 6 participants, both international and Sardinian. They will live, learn, and create together, shaping their own journey through a curated program of artistic film production, masterclasses, film screenings, and collective discussions. Participants will be hosted at Posada Candiani / Porto Pino, immersed in a centuries-old pine forest facing the sea. Set in this exceptional coastal location, the residency offers time and space for filmmakers to write, develop, experiment, or simply reconnect with their cinematic practice away from urgency and distraction.
The residency invites participants to encounter the territory as living cinematic material. The Sulcis is a layered landscape where coastal and rural environments, archaeological traces, mining memory, small communities, vineyards, caves, and wild stretches of sea coexist in a compact and powerful geography. It is a place where the relationship between people and landscape is still visible, and where slowness, distance, and attention can become part of the creative process.
The residency will coincide with the Sant’Anna Arresi Jazz Festival, one of the most important jazz gatherings in Sardinia. Participants will be immersed in a parallel program of live music, sonic experimentation, and artistic encounters between cinema and jazz. In Sant’Anna Arresi, where archaeological heritage and contemporary cultural production coexist, the residency becomes a space where image, sound, memory, and landscape can enter into dialogue.
The residency is part of the Municipality of Sant’Anna Arresi’s broader commitment to supporting cinema, cultural exchange, and new forms of artistic engagement with the territory.
OUTCOME & FINAL SCREENING
Each participant will develop and complete a short film during the residency. Documentary, experimental, and hybrid forms are welcome, provided the project is feasible within a short production period and limited resources.
The completed films will be presented in a public screening on September 9 in Sant’Anna Arresi, on the same stage that hosts the Jazz Festival.
All rights remain with the authors, who will be free to continue developing, distributing, and submitting their films after the residency.
MENTORS
The residency will be led by Stefano Obino and Roser Corella, whose latest co-directed film premiered at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 2025 and has been selected by more than 40 international festivals.
STEFANO OBINO is an Italian screenwriter, filmmaker, and story editor based in Berlin. His work moves across different formats, from documentary cinema to television series and fiction development, with a strong focus on memory, territory, popular culture, and personal history. He directed Vinicio Capossela – Nel paese dei Coppoloni, together with the renowned Italian folk singer Vinicio Capossela, which was finalist at the David di Donatello Awards. He later wrote and directed three documentary series for Rai Italia, developing projects shaped by a strong narrative structure and an ability to work across different cultural and production contexts.
Over the years, Obino has moved from a journalistic approach toward more personal and formally ambitious documentary work. His feature documentary War Is Over premiered at Alice nella città – Rome Film Festival and was awarded at the Nastri d’Argento 2022 – National Italian Film Critics Award. Alongside his work as a director, he is deeply involved as a developer, story editor, and screenwriter for both documentary and fiction projects, collaborating with independent producers, broadcasters, and international production companies, including Wild Bunch Italy and Netflix.
ROSER CORELLA is a Spanish independent documentary filmmaker and producer based in Berlin. She studied Visual Arts at the University of Barcelona and continued her film training at EICTV – International School of Cinema in Cuba. She began her career as a video journalist for Catalan television, before moving toward self-produced documentary work and developing a personal cinematic language rooted in human stories, social realities, and critical engagement with contemporary society.
Her films are marked by a highly visual narrative style, combining creative documentary filmmaking with investigative research and a strong attention to the human dimension behind global issues. Her documentaries have been selected by major international festivals including CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, Thessaloniki Film Festival, Shanghai Film Festival, and Zurich Film Festival, among many others. The film received several awards and distinctions, including the Amnesty International Award at DocsBarcelona and the Best Film Award – Human Rights Documentary at the Festival del Cinema dei Diritti Umani di Napoli.
