Private Project

Snow and blood

Central Italy. Sibillini mountains. Six years after a terrible series of earthquakes that destroyed most of the villages in the mountain area, the old farmer Giuseppe lives isolated in an old farmhouse with his animals. The adverses circumstances and the reconstruction that is slow in coming, force Giuseppe to consider a painful choice: to deal with the mayor Alfredo Moretti who would like him to sell his farm to develop a large speculative project to boost the tourist economy of the territory. Giuseppe is about to accept the proposal when fate calls him to face a dramatic reality of illegal unemplyement that convinces him to resist again.

  • Giorgio Cingolani
    Director
  • Giorgio Cingolani
    Writer
  • Linda Di Dio
    Producer
  • Nazzareno Mignini
    Key Cast
    "Giuseppe"
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Neve e Sangue
  • Project Type:
    Other
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 24 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    June 21, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    51,800,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Language:
    Italian
  • Shooting Format:
    Digitale
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
Distribution Information
  • Arbash
    Distributor
Director Biography - Giorgio Cingolani

Giorgio Cingolani is a PhD in HUMAN SCIENCES and lecturer from 2006 to 2011 in Cultural Anthropology and in 2016/17 in Cinematographic Language at the University of Macerata. In 2001 he founded VIEW a small independent film production’s company that produce cinematographic project and anthropological and historical-religious research projects. He has made research in Ethiopia (Dancalia), Madagascar, Niger, Tibet, Spiti Valley, Peruvian Amazon and, since 2005, he has made various studies, publications and documentary films on some urban suburbs of Marche (Hotel House, Lido tre Archi di Fermo). His documentary film on the Cult of Bori in Possession in Niger is distributed in France, it was screened at the Musée de l'Homme in Paris and published with the publishing house Harmattan. He's a member of the Centre for the Study of Adolescent Psychology, University of Macerata. His publications include academic essays, books, films, documentaries, and screenplays. For info: www.giorgiocingolani.com

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Director Statement

The film is set in the territories affected by the earthquake of 2016, and this necessarily assumes a certain dose of reality. Seismic events are the central focus from which the plot of the film develops: after six years there are still evident signs of the destruction of the earthquake in villages, in ruins and rubble or in SAE areas, but also in the difficulty of rebuilding, in the depopulation of mountain areas and especially for the consequences left in the soul of the inhabitants of the country. We chose to leave this scenario always present in the background, as a reference context from which the characters move in a situation of precariousness and uncertainty that is also a metaphor of modern times. In this sense, it is important to say that the protagonist is a non-professional actor who lives in a small mountain village, he moves in the real places of a tragedy and this removes many filters and limits to the maximum the need to build emotions in an artificial way. Giuseppe acts and moves in the places devastated by the earthquake, where there are the real inhabitants of those places and because of this desire for realism have been involved as actors in small roles many inhabitants of the places devastated by the earthquake (still living in SAE areas). In the film there are many animals and is always alive the anthropological attention to the territory, the peasant traditions of the past and the local culture that is manifested in various ways such as the use of the dialect and, in particular, on an ancient tradition of the Marche, the "Pista" or "salata", that is, the slaughter and processing of pork. In the film the anthropological attention to the territory, to the peasant traditions and to the local culture serves in order to emphasize a sense of loss of values of the present, to describe a world of values now lost and compromised by an economic development that has helped erase the identity that fed the communities of the past. In this sense, the images of the past, the vintage repertoire, serve to emphasize the need to recover the deeper meaning of their cultural roots, that sense of "sacred" that founds the human community now broken up.