Balentes

Transposing the story of the Passion of Jesus to Sardinia, Su Re draws for the very first time on the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John together. Giovanni Columbu's distinct view is shot in a landscape unaffected by modernity and played out by an amateur cast, offering still new insights into the life of Christ.

Surbiles, women who, between dusk and dawn, using drugs or in their sleep, abandoned their bodies to enter the homes of children, intent on sucking their blood. In the villages of central Sardinia, they were once blamed for the sudden and inexplicable deaths of children.