original title:
Abele
directed by:
cinematography:
editing:
production:
country:
Italy
year:
2025
film run:
77'
format:
colour
status:
Ready (27/05/2025)
festivals & awards:
Between Sardinia and Palestine—two geographically distant yet equally central places in the history of nomadic pastoralism from the Middle East to the Mediterranean—Abel encounters the lives of shepherds who survive on the edge of a military range, in a deconsecrated church, among the sheepfolds of Supramonte and in the Palestinian desert controlled by the Israeli army. A collective portrait in which the shepherds grapple with the geopolitical contradictions of the present. Moving within this deep fracture, Abel’s search reveals the archetype of conflict, in a narrative spiral that offers no solutions but explores the signs of a peculiar human condition.