La Duna

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.''