Il mondo salvato dalle ragazzine

Il mondo salvato dalle ragazzine
short film

Directed and written by Maria Luisa Usai
Artistic supervision Claudia Mollese
Director of photography Laura Piras and Claudia Mollese
Sound engineer Marcella Mancini
Editing Lea Dicursi
Production assistant Francesca Panu
Sound post-production Antonio Giannantonio
Original music Alessandro Olla
Color correction Sebastiano Greco

featuring Viola Manganelli, Matilda Pigliaru, Elisabetta Orani, Lana Sulejmanovic, Maria Sulejmanovic
special guest Sandra Sulejmanovic, Eduardo Becciu

Produced and distributed by Istituto Superiore Regionale Etnografico.

Winning project of the Avisa 2021 call (Visual Anthropology in Sardinia) by ISRE.

With the support of Sardegna Film Commission and Asce Sardegna.

A slide carries us into the lives and inner worlds of five teenage girls born in Sassari, Sardinia, in the island’s northwest. Alternating between city streets and the black holes of imagination, a shared journey unfolds through the making of a film and a deep immersion in reality.

The girls want to save the world — whether they will succeed remains unknown. What we do know is that they possess superpowers, have something to say, and harbor unpredictable desires.

A docu-fantasy where dreams, imagination, and the eviction of a Roma camp coexist within the same experience. Life breaks into cinema and vice versa. The protagonists are convinced they have made a fantasy film; the author believes she has created a documentary.

Adolescence is always a battleground, and imagination is always revolutionary.