Nina, a 21-year-old agronomy student, leaves Rome and returns to her native Apulia. Her family is in financial dire straits, awaiting the promised state compensation for the area’s dying centuries-old olive trees. This defeatist approach is rejected by Nina, who embarks on a quest to restore balance, having almost religious faith in nature’s survival forces. A mystical blend of social realism and environmental activism that delves into the secrets of ancestral pagan traditions.
Sow the Wind
Semina il vento
61st TIFF: Greek premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Danilo Caputo
- Script: Danilo Caputo, Milena Magnani
- Cinematography: Christos Karamanis
- Editing: Sylvie Gadmer
- Sound: Maximilien Gobiet
- Music: Valerio Camporini F
- Actors: Yile Yara Vianello, Feliciana Sibilano, Caterina Valente, Espedito Chionna
- Production: JBA Production, Okta Film, Graal Films, Rai Cinema
- Producers: Jacques Bidou, Marianne Dumoulin, Paolo Benzi
- Co-producers: Konstantina Stavrianou
- Sets: Federica Bologna
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: Italy, France, Greece
- Production Year: 2020
- Duration: 91΄
- Contact: Pyramide International Ilaria Gomarska ilaria@pyramidefilms.com
Danilo Caputo
Born in 1984, Danilo Caputo grew up in a village near Taranto (Apulia, Italy). At 17, he left for the US where he studied classical music. Three years later, an arm injury forced him to quit music and move back to Europe. Quite lost, he began studying philosophy hoping to find some answers, but he found cinema instead. In 2008 he wrote and directed his first short film (Polvere). Other shorts followed (Banduryst, Il Posto Fisso). In 2011, he moved back to Apulia to shoot his first feature La Mezza Stagione (Late Season), without any budget, with non-professional actors and a tiny but happy crew. The film premiered in 2014 in Karlovy Vary and was selected in various international festivals. Following that adventure, Danilo moved to Paris where he found work as a postman in the 15th arrondissement. At the same time, he started working on what would become Semina il Vento (Sow the Wind). Coproduced between Italy, France and Greece, the shooting took place in the rustic countryside surrounding Taranto, in that very part of Italy that Danilo has been trying to escape for almost two decades, quite unsuccessfully.
Filmography
2020 Sow the Wind
