ROUTE 230° - RETURN TO THE LAND OF THE FATHERS by Igor Biddau - Italy, 2024 - 66' A journey to reconstruct the memory and reinterpret the tragedy of the Julian Dalmatian exodus which tore up the roots of many Italians, forced to abandon the Adriatic coasts. Some of these found hospitality in Fertilia, Sardinia, to start a new life. From there, after more than 70 years, the Klizia boat, together with its crew commanded by the eighty-six year old Giulio Marongiu, sets off again for a long journey, to reunite the threads of history, to return to the land of the fathers.

Presented as a preview at the 81st Venice International Film Festival, the film retraces in reverse the route followed, in the spring of 1948, by 13 fishing boats carrying 53 families of exiles from Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia who, after having had to abandon the land in which they were born, after 20 days and 20 nights of navigation along the coasts of our peninsula, they reached Fertilia, a small city founded unfinished house built near Alghero in Sardinia, causing the seed of a new life to germinate. A meeting between a city without inhabitants and a community without a home anymore.

Event organized together with the Municipality of Lucca. Director Igor Biddau will be in the theatre to present the film. (In Italian) MORE INFO