Italy
77′42″, 2025
DIRECTED BY
Fabian Volti
PRODUCED BY
Fabian Volti, Roda Film
SCRIPTWRITER
Fabian Volti, Stefania Muresu
CINEMATOGRAPHER
Fabian Volti, Luigi Bosio, Roberto Farace
EDITED BY
Stefania Muresu, Carlotta Guaraldo, Enrico Masi
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.
Fabian Volti is a filmmaker and photographer. After studying political science he worked between Berlin and Madrid producing audiovisual projects between visual research and documentary cinema. Since 2005 he has directed numerous short films, reportage and documentaries, including Light at Sea (2014, SIEFF), North Trawling (2015), Umbras (2021, Cinemambiente), and as co-author and director of photography for Princesa (Venice Days, 2021). He lives and works In Sardinia, where he founded Roda Film, a production of creative documentaries. Abel is his first feature film.
