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COWS ON THE ROOF

ANCHE STANOTTE LE MUCCHE DANZERANNO SUL TETTO

By Aldo GUGOLZ

ROUGH CAT - as PROD

Social issues - Completed 2020

Visions du Réel 2020

Compétition Nationale

Trento Film Festival 2021

International Competition: award for Best Film

Dolomitale Film Festival 2021

International Competition: award for Best Film

Apricot Tree International Ethno Film Festival 2021

Feature-Lenght Competition: The Folk Arts Hub Foundation Special Award

Festival International du Film Alpin Des Diablerets 2021

"World culture" Competition: Diable d’Or for best film

Solothurn Film Festival 2021

Panorama

Ladek Film Festival 2022

Man & Mountain competition: award for Best Film

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Social issues, Biography, Documentary
- Countries
- SWITZERLAND
- Languages
- ITALIAN, SWISS-GERMAN
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 82 mn
- Director(s)
- Aldo GUGOLZ
- Producer(s)
- Nicola BERNASCONI, Christina CARUSO
- Synopsis
- Fabiano has a simple dream: making goat cheese in an alpine hut located in the mountains an isolated valley in the mountains of southern Switzerland. That’s the way his hippie parents used to live and that is also his dream. A dream shared by Eva, his wife, who will soon be a mother. But times have changed and the harsh reality of the global economy transforms his alpine utopia into an ordeal. Furthermore, Fabiano is haunted by nightmares and guilt feelings. He thinks he is responsible for the death of an undocumented Macedonian worker. Torn by all these conflicting feelings, Fabiano can barely keep up with his debts that are piling up. Aldo Gugolz directs an extremely fine-tuned film about what it means today to try to live according to one’s own ideals. Cows on the Roof is a critical rethinking of the traditional Heimat documentary (and feature film) that dares to show a different reality of a country struggling between its official imagery and the harsh realities of a global economy. Pushed forward by an unrelenting dramatic pace and extremely precise editing, Cows on the Roof asks serious questions that need to be answered.
  
  Giona A. Nazzaro