The Julian director Franco Giraldi, who passed away a few months ago, would have recently turned 90: the cinematographic works that Giraldi dedicated to Istria are the subject of the new publication by the film critic and National Vice President of the Anvgd Alessandro Cuk. "The Istrian trilogy in Franco Giraldi's cinema" is the title of the publication, of which we publish the introduction with the kind permission of Alcione Editore. The project to create this publication began three years ago with the intention of taking a further step in the study of the relationship between cinema and the eastern border. After the two monographs, concerning the two films...