Il rito

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Il rito

original title:

Il rito

directed by:

cast:

Antonio Murru, Cesare Serra, Giovanni Murru, Laurana Caria

screenplay:

cinematography:

production:

Mommotty, Luches Film, Terra de Punt, Regione Sardegna, with the support of Sardegna Film Commission Foundation

country:

Italy

year:

2020

film run:

28'

format:

colour

status:

Ready (14/10/2020)

festivals & awards:

In a small agro pastoral community in Sardinia, between repeated daily gestures and dilated times, two pastures are blocked. a baby cries incessantly. a kid is not able to score goals in front of a defenseless soccer net. everyone in the village knows that only Antonio, a peasant who works in sharecropping vineyards, can intercede through the ritual of eye medicine: water, grains of salt, oil and "brebus" - prayers recited with the lips without ever being pronounced orally. however, the rite is not always successful. Antonio needs to recharge himself from the one who handed down this gift to him, so that “the invisible power" is transmitted again to each other like a breath between two bodies.