Santina da Fusio
Santina of Fusio
Mirto Storni / Switzerland / 2009 / 49 min / Colour
Italian premiere
Santina’s “garden of wonders” is above Fusio, at 1400 metres, at the top of the Valle Maggia. Up there, Santina, tiny and energetic, with a vivacious expression and ready laugh, lives in a small house without electricity, television, refrigerator, or washing machine. A wood-burning stove is all she needs. She lives on what she produces in her garden, where she cultivates vegetables, flowers, and medicinal herbs, guided by the bio-dynamic calendar. In summer she scours the mountains for berries and herbs. In winter, she sews peduli, antique cloth shoes.
Mirto Storni
Credits
Language Italian, Ticino Dialect Subject Mirto Storni Cinematography Riccardo Brunner Sound Riccardo Pasquali Editing Emanuela Andreoli Music Andrea Belloni Producer Federico Jolli Production company RSI - Radiotelevisione Svizzera