Can the narrative of Calabria be cleansed of the image of a land of 'ndrangheta, of the original sin of being a poor region and a land of emigration, of the most common stereotypes? It would finally seem possible to find a new way of storytelling in Calabria, both literary and cinematic, thanks to a generation of authors who are able to grasp in the present the signs of a peasant civilization that is still very much alive. This is the case with the documentary film Figli del Minotauro/Storie di uomini e animali by Eugenio Attanasio, produced by the Cineteca della Calabria, screened in Cardinale thanks to the Pro Loco chaired by Domenico Gori. The event was chosen because in the Preserre there is a great tradition of livestock farming and milk processing, which make the Municipality of Cardinale a center of excellence. The screening, attended by the director and representatives of the Pro Loco, the Municipal Administration with Deputy Mayor Massimo Rotiroti, was a great success. Professional journalist Luigi Stanizzi, introducing director Attanasio, pointed out that this work has been screened in Italy and abroad, receiving awards and international recognition. And that the docufilm on transhumance was shot before this millenary practice was declared UNESCO heritage. Luigi Stanizzi said that director Eugenio Attanasio has the great merit, through his cinematographic and literary works, of enhancing and making known traditions, personalities, masterpieces of art, and places of our land often ignored even by Calabrians themselves. The protagonists of the epic tale of transhumance, understood as a metaphor for a journey of men and animals, are the herdsmen, heirs to a millenary culture that still endures today, and which dates back to the Mesolithic, when one of the first prehistoric artists depicted the image of the Bos Primigenius in the Romito Cave of Papasidero, one of the most important sites in the world. The inspiring reasons of these first men, who chose cattle as subjects of their extraordinary works, between Papasidero, Lescaux, Altamira, and Chauvet, are still unknown, but it is certain that they date back to a period before domestication, when the animal represented evoked an idea of strength, power, and fertility that inspired awe. Aristotle mentions, in the Isthmus of Calabria, Italo, the cattle-breeding king of the Enotri, while the symbol of the bovine recurs in the art of Sybaris both with the facing bull, used in coinage, and with the sculpture of the butting bull. "The last heirs of this ancestral world," director and cultural operator Eugenio Attanasio also highlighted, "are the Calabrian breeders of podolica cattle, as they still move following the animals in search of fresh pastures, herdsmen who now use horses, now pick-ups, now quads, interpreting a modernity that is still sustainable, where men, animals, and plant species create an ecosystem." The great activism of the Pro Loco of Cardinale and of Manuela Staglianò is commendable, as she was able to promote the event by involving the local population and breeders, who responded significantly by also organizing an exceptional tasting of authentic, delicious local products, intimately linked to the tradition of the area: Azienda agricola Rotiroti Giovanni, Rotiroti Domenico, Nicola Mazza, Famiglia Gori, Nicola Raimondo, Famiglia Papis. For the occasion, a wooden sculpture was made by the artist Stella Macrì, which was donated as a memento of the event to director Eugenio Attanasio. The screening took place precisely on the day when, by tradition, transhumance was carried out in Cardinale, on St. Nicholas' Day.