Documentary, by Mattia Mura, Italy, 2020.
Damanhur is a community of spiritual seekers located in Valchiusella, Piedmont. The people of Damanhur, who live in the largest ecovillage in Italy, consider themselves to belong to a micronation, although it is not recognized by the Italian state. The community, active since the mid-seventies, secretly built an underground temple recognized today by the Guinness Book of Records as the largest underground religious structure in the world. Through the eyes of Celastrina, a Swedish girl who arrived in the community to shoot a documentary and who instead chose to stay and live inside, the film tells the story of lights and shadows of the spiritual community, amidst the accusation of being a sect and the creation of a possible alternative society.

Damanhur constantly appears to the director in a series of coincidences, as if there were a calling, a mission. So Mattia Mura proposed the project to Fabrica who rejected it because it was "not in line with his editorial choice". But Mattia believes in his intuition and manages to carry out the project on his own, independently. It was a long journey, but the documentary was finally made.

LANGUAGE: Italian, English
SUBTITLES: English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese