Làstima, Mario Piredda’s second feature film, is a road-movie that bridges the lives of two foreign women, through a scorching Sardinia.
Làstima is a Sardinian language term, difficult to translate literally: it means a sense of pity that becomes mockery, compassion, and tenderness. What a làstima, when things do not go as they should, when – anyway – you cannot do anything about it, because everything is already predestined. Vera and Ana, two very different foreign women whom life has brought together in Sardinia, observe the island from the outside, in its most authentic and ambiguous characters and situations. Everyone is an outsider and equally condemned, saved only by irony and human solidarity.
The film has already received support from Creative Europe MEDIA Slate, and the Development and Production Fund of the Region of Sardinia.
YEAR
2025
FUNDING IN PLACE
Creative Europe MEDIA Slate
Regione Sardegna – Development
Regione Sardegna – Production
GENRE
Second feature film, drama
STATUS
Late development
“Apparently all the characters resemble wandering monsters, but they are human beings, endowed with their own dignity, part of our everyday life. People whom I portray without judgement, with tenderness and true affection - with làstima, actually.”
An Articolture production
in co-development with Tangaj Production (Romania)
written and directed by Mario Piredda
