The screening cycle "Ecological Settings: documentaries for land and sea" came to a close on 6 June 2026 at the VeGAL offices in Portogruaro, as part of the Interreg VI-A Italy-Slovenia POSEIDONE project. The final event drew a full house of around forty attendees, reflecting the interest the series had generated over the course of the weeks.
The programme, organised by VeGAL in collaboration with the Caorle Film Festival© and the Estate Violenta cinema club, presented four short films and documentaries selected from works previously screened at the Caorle Independent Film Festival. All titles were chosen for their ability to address, with both poetic vision and documentary rigour, the core themes of the POSEIDONE project and the other Interreg programmes in which VeGAL is a partner: biodiversity, climate change, coastal erosion and sustainability.
The cycle opened on 16 May at the Portogruaro Public Library with Studio2091 – A Venetian Story (directed by Naù Germoglio), an intimate portrait of a Venetian creative space inhabited by artisans and artists — a metaphor for a quiet resistance to throwaway culture. On 22 May, at the National Museum of Sea Archaeology in Caorle, the audience was treated to 2100 (directed by Fabrizio Antonioli), a scientific and visual journey through Sicily exploring how sea level variations have shaped the Mediterranean over millennia and what the future may hold. On 23 May, again in Caorle, came Wounded Dunes (directed by Franco Blandi), a documentary tracing a thousand kilometres of Sicilian coastline to capture the state of the coastal dunes — a fragile bastion of biodiversity and beauty, caught between degradation and conservation efforts. The cycle concluded with Biopatriarchi (directed by Lorenzo Scaraggi), screened at VeGAL's premises: a journey through Apulia among the last guardians of rare plant varieties, asking how agricultural memory from the past might help save humanity's future.
Through the lens of these four films, VeGAL offered the public a journey of environmental awareness centred on the themes driving the Interreg programme in the Italy-Slovenia cross-border area, bringing the local community closer to the POSEIDONE, Ero-STOP, Central-BIC and AWASTER projects.
The strong attendance recorded across all four evenings — with a sold-out final event — confirms the value of this format: cinema as a tool for scientific and cultural communication, capable of reaching diverse audiences and turning complex issues into accessible and emotionally resonant narratives.
Through the lens of these four films, VeGAL offered the public a journey of environmental awareness centred on the themes driving the Interreg programme in the Italy-Slovenia cross-border area, bringing the local community closer to the POSEIDONE, Ero-STOP, Central-BIC and AWASTER projects.
The strong attendance recorded across all four evenings — with a sold-out final event — confirms the value of this format: cinema as a tool for scientific and cultural communication, capable of reaching diverse audiences and turning complex issues into accessible and emotionally resonant narratives.
