Vermiglio

Program:

Festival of festivals

Year:

2024

Country:

Italy, France, Belgium

Genre:

Fiction

Duration:

119'

1944. In Vermiglio, a high mountain village of the Italian Alps where war looms as a distant but constant threat. The arrival of Pietro, a refugee soldier, disrupts the dynamics of the local teacher’s family, changing them forever. During the four seasons marking the end of World War II, Pietro and Lucia, the eldest daughter of the teacher, instantly drawn to each other, led to marriage and an unexpected fate. As the world emerges from its tragedy, the family will face its own.

Schedule

Maura Delpero

Born in Bolzano, after graduating in literature in Bologna and Paris, she studied dramaturgy in Buenos Aires. After exploring the boundary between fiction and non fiction through her documentaries, she premiered her first fiction MATERNAL winning four awards in the International Competition of the 72. Locarno Film Festival and more than thirty in over hundred festivals worldwide. In 2020 she won the Kering-Festival de Cannes Women in Motion Young Talent Award. The script of VERMIGLIO was selected in Torino FilmLab, Nipkow Program, Mediterranean Film Institute Lab. It has been awarded the Coprocity Award and the ARTE Kino International Award.

Filmography: Vermiglio (2024), Maternal (2019), Nadea e Sveta (2012), Signora Professori (2008)

Creative team

Director

Maura Delpero

Screenplay

Maura Delpero

Camera

Mikhail Krichman

Editing

Luca Mattei

Production design

Pirra