Sardinia – Tradition is a feature documentary directed by Dr. Louis Lam, a medical expeditionist and cultural anthrolopogist, who travels all over the world to tell inspirational stories about the local people and culture, their views about themselves versus the world, and current issues that reflect much wider influences. Sardinia is about the Italian island west of the “Continent”, a word used to separate mainland Italians from the Sardinians. This film is about the passion of Sardinians to preserve their own identities, through their languages, food, culture, dance, and music. It is filmed in the northern half of the island through historic towns like Sassari and Orgosolo, as well as the seaside towns of Alghero and Cala Gonone. It talks about the original Nuragic people who had inhabited the island for many years and their influences on current culture. It introduces their preservation of truly organic farming by visiting the Agri-Tourism of Su Gologine and different private organic farms of Coda di Lupo, the Berchida as well as the mountainous farm of Putzu in Oliena. It introduces some of the most important organic dishes as the snails of Sassari, the famous Pane Carasau bread, Cordula the fireplace roasted lamb intestines, roasted suckling pigs, the local Bortega, and the native pasta of Culurgiones. It interviews a linguistic professor about the language traditions, and takes the audiance into the bandit town of Orgosolo. It shows the beauty of their dance and music traditions through the legendary Mamutzones, the mountain brotherhood songs of Tenore, and the love dance of Passu Torrau. It introduces the most organic form of farm to table cuisines with no preserved ingredients and the interdependence of farming communities instead of commercialized products or supermarkets. Finally, the film also reveals the matriarchal structure of Sardinia

and the importance of women in society.

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Filmed April 2023.