30. Film Festival della Lessinia
Bosco Chiesanuova (Italia)
23 August - 1 September 2024

“The are five reasons to drink: the arrival of a friend, good wine, the thirst you feel and that to come, and any other.” The vineyards on the rocks, on the northern side of the Valtellina, are the remote terraces on mountain slopes still fashioned today by manual labour, according to a tradition that dates to 1400. There grow the grapevines from which the wines of the Valtellina are made. Ermanno Olmi turns to documentary and embarks on a voyage among the valleys, slopes, tradition, and culture. 

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  Ermanno Olmi

  Ermanno Olmi (Bergamo, 1931 – Asiago, 2018) was a director, screenwriter and author. He began his early career directing documentaries that describe the world of industrial production for Edison-Volta. After conceiving and directing more than forty documentaries, he made his debut film, Il tempo si è fermato (Time Stood Still) in 1958. His career continued for more than fifty years, with a rigorous and poetic expressiveness attentive to the description of the relationship with nature, focusing his gaze on the daily life of the humble, in the memory of his own peasant origins.