Sow the Wind.
21 year old Nica drops out of university and returns to her Southern Italy home to find her father deep in debt and leading a movement to remove the area’s ancient olive trees, with the promise of financial compensation. Can Nica save the region’s beautiful ecosystem or will greed win out?
About the film.
Available online, 15 Oct - 14 Nov ‘21
$12 / $9 conc (passes available)
2020 | 91’ | Italy | Italian | Danilo Caputo
Nica, a 21 year old agronomics student, drops out of her university studies and returns to her home in Southern Italy to find her father deep in debt and leading a movement to have the area's ancient, but now insect ridden olive trees uprooted for financial compensation.
What emerges is a fierce battle between Nica, vying to save her home's beautiful ecosystem, and the greed contaminated minds of those living in the region.
Sow the Wind serves at once as a desperate plea to protect our ecology, a powerful human drama, and an enthralling immersion into the myriad sights and sounds of nature. Atmospheric, visually striking and powerfully performed, this film offers a dramatic, dark, yet urgent expression of the necessity to protect nature — and the memories and traditions so often woven through it — and the many unexpected, personal challenges that pursuit can bring.