Sceneggiatura / Screenplay: Fabian Volti, Stefania Muresu. Fotografia / Photography: Fabian Volti, Luigi Bosio, Roberto Farace. Montaggio / Editing: Stefania Muresu, Carlotta Guaraldo, Enrico Masi. Musica / Music: Federico Fenu. Suono / Sound: Saverio Damiani. Voci narranti / Narrator: Alberto Masala, Odeh Khalil Kharabshe. Produzione / Produced by: Roda Film. Con il sostegno di / Supported by: Regione Autonoma della Sardegna, Sardegna Film Commission, Fondazione di Sardegna, Ministero della Cultura- Next Generation EU. In collaborazione con / In Collaboration with: Caucaso, 4CaniperStrada, Società Umanitaria Cineteca Sarda, Ponti Non Muri, Associazione Sardegna Palestina, Meridiano Zero.
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. The narrative intertwines images of the landscape with archival footage of the shepherds’ ancestors and scenes from their daily lives.
“We searched for the imaginary Abel all the way to biblical Palestine. Is Abel this latent, eternal image of a life at the origin, before the outbreak of conflict?” (F. Volti)
Fabian Volti
Fabian Volti is an Italian filmmaker and photographer. After studying Political Science, he worked between Berlin and Madrid on audiovisual projects combining visual research and documentary cinema. He lives and works in Sardinia, where he founded the production company Roda Film, dedicated to creative documentaries. Abel, his debut feature-length, was selected at the IDFA in Amsterdam, among others.
filmografia scelta / selected filmography 2014 Luci a mare cm / sf 2016 Strascico a Nord cm / sf 2021 Umbras doc. 2025 Abele doc.
