In summer, brightly colored beach bars and umbrellas line the snow-white sand dunes of Porto Pino; in winter, fighter jets and gunfire thunder over it. Over the years, the dunes, some of which are located on Sardinia's largest military site, have shrunk considerably. There is a legend among local residents that Silvio Berlusconi stole sand from the dunes and transported it to his scandalous Bunga Bunga villa in the fashionable north of Sardinia. Starting from the single grain of sand LA DUNA opens the question: who owns the land? The film connects true stories of an expropriated farmer scaring off NATO with goat skulls; an entrepreneurial fisherman bringing tourists to a radioactive contaminated peninsula; a stubborn 92-year-old shepherd chasing away an international real estate consortium; a seasonal waitress planning a yacht harbor in Matriarchy; a scattered Sardinian family, populist environmentalists; tons of sand in plastic bottles and the enduring "battle for the narrative."
Director of photography: Johanna Piechotta
Camer assistent: Moritz Rakutt, Lukas Ortel
sound recording: Roberto Cois, Claus Stoermer
Editing: Federico Neri, Emerson Culurgioni, Stefanie Schroeder
Producers: Stephan Helmut Beier, Ray Peter Maletzki, Ginan Seidl, Daniel Ulacia Balmaseda
production manager: Ayla Güney
Line Producer: Luca Manunza
Line Production Service: Tore Cubeddu (Terra de Punt)
Production Design: Caroline Sell, Daniela Groemke, Eva Radt
Boom Operator: Alejandro Weyler
Sound Design: Emerson Culurgioni, Steffen Martin
Sound Mixing: Jochen Jezussek
Colorist: Moritz Peters | Digital Images GmbH Halle
Production Company: ROSENPICTURES Filmproduktion GbR
