Mònde - Festa del Cinema sui Cammini
Italian Film Festival
2024 October, Monte Sant'Angelo, Italy
Mònde, the Film Festival dedicated to the theme of walking paths and travels in Monte Sant'Angelo, returns this year from October 3 to 6. This seventh edition coincides with Monte Sant'Angelo's designation as the Capital of Culture of Apulia 2024. Many actors, directors, and producers are expected in the town, home to two UNESCO World Heritage Sites, for a packed program that will include film screenings, walk shows, school matinees, three immersive walks, workshops, exhibitions, and live performances.
The film Ardeidae is scheduled for Sunday, October 6, followed by a Q&A with director Chiara Faggionato. The film offers a dystopian vision of the Venice lagoon, a place suspended between beauty and decay. We follow a group of Asian tourists as they journey through a crumbling landscape, while an audio guide describes a Venice that drifts further and further from visible reality. The film invites reflection on themes such as cultural memory and the fragility of our environment.
THE FESTIVAL
Mònde is a film festival dedicated to the theme of travel, exploring all its nuances and meanings. But it also includes excursions and walks, the “Gargano DOC - School of Documentaries on Paths and Cultural Itineraries,” workshops, meetings with authors, exhibitions, concerts, and moments of shared conviviality. All of this unfolds in the unique setting of the historic Junno district of Monte Sant'Angelo, within the stunning natural surroundings of the Gargano National Park.
This year’s festival is dedicated to the theme of “Changes.” Once again, the event will foster collective reflection on topics like resilience, disorientation, and both personal and communal challenges.
Choosing to stay, in fact, can require as much courage as setting out on a journey. It may be seen as either an act of heresy or a civil commitment—fighting a daily battle through small gestures to protect and preserve one’s home. This struggle is not against the arrival of outsiders, but rather against those who live as if they are disconnected from their surroundings. As anthropologist Vito Teti has written, “Remaining means picking up the pieces, putting them back together, retracing one’s steps to find a new path together, and discovering, as if by revelation, that much of what we thought was dead is still alive."