In the penal colony

Italy, 2025, 85 min.

Color, O.V. Sardinian, Italian, Turkish, Arab

Directors and writers: Gaetano Crivaro, Silvia Perra, Ferruccio Goia, Alberto Diana

DOP: Federica Ortu

Editing: Emanuele Malloci

Sound: Andrea Oppo, Emanuele Pusceddu, Roberto Cois

Sound design: Emanuele Pusceddu

Colorist: Andrea Gargano

Producer: Laura Biagini, Nicola Contini, Matteo Incollu, Federica Ortu

Production: Mommotty with the contribution of Fondazione Sardegna Film Commission

Synopsis. In Sardinia, hidden in almost inaccessible places, three of the last active penal colonies in Europe still exist today. In these open-air prisons, inmates serve their sentences by splitting their time between cells and daily work: they cultivate the land, breed grazing animals, and perform maintenance tasks in the same facility in which they are imprisoned. “In the Penal Colony” is a film that immerses itself in a space of exception where freedom and confinement intertwine.

Festivals:

Locarno Film Festival – Semaine de la Critique (2025) Switzerland; Bellaria Film Festival (2025) Italy; Cinemambiente (2025) Italy; Ischia Film Festival (2025) Italy.

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