YEAR:
2020
Sow the Wind
Nica, 21, drops out of her university course in agronomics and returns home to Apulia in southern Italy after three years away. She finds her father deep in debt, a polluted, devastated region, and olive trees destroyed by a parasite. Everyone seems to have given up in the face of the vast ecological disaster, while her father is obsessed with uprooting the olive grove to make money from the land. Nica fights with all her might to save the ancient trees. But the pollution has also contaminated people’s minds, and she will have to face unexpected obstacles…
- 2020, Berlinale: Panorama
- 2020, International Thessaloniki Film Festival
- 2020, Cairo International Film Festival
- 2020, Cinemed – Festival Cinéma Mediterranéen Montpellier
- 2020, The Norwegian International Film Festival
- 2020, Warsaw Film Festival: Discoveries
- 2020, Denver Film Festival: Italian Showcase
- 2020, Festival du Film Italien de Villerupt: Sélection Officielle
- 2020, Italy on screen today – USA film & tv series fest
DIRECTOR(S):
Danilo Caputo
WRITER(S):
Danilo Caputo, Milena Magnani
PRODUCER(S):
Jacques Bidou, Marianne Dumoulin, Paolo Benzi
CAST:
Yile Yara Vianello, Feliciana Sibilano, Caterina Valente, Espedito Chionna
CINEMATOGRAPHER:
Christos Karamanis
PRODUCTION DESIGNER:
Federica Bologna
EDITOR:
Sylvie Gadmer
MUSIC:
Valerio Camporini F.
RUNTIME:
90 minutes
COUNTRY:
Italy, Greece, France
PREMIERE:
West Coast
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About the director
Danilo Caputo grew up in a village in Apulia, Italy. At 17, he left for the US where he studied classical music. In 2011, he moved back to Apulia to shoot his first feature, Late Season, without any budget, with non-professional actors and a tiny crew. He then moved to Paris to work as a postman and began writing what would become Sow the Wind.