A Flower Of Mine
Direction: Paolo Cognetti
Plot. When in the summer of 2022, Italy suffered a period of extensive drought, for the first time in his life Paolo Cognetti saw the spring run completely dry at his home in Estoul, a small village about 1700 metres above the valley of Brusson. This event upset him so much that it triggered off the idea in him to tell the story of his beautiful mountains, landscapes and glaciers now destined to disappear or change forever as a result of climate change. So, Cognetti tells the story of his mountain along the same lines as Hokusai’s Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji’, a work in which the Japanese artist portrayed Fuji from many different viewpoints, recounting life on different levels: on the mountain sides, in the valleys below, on the summit, but also in nearby towns, from where the mountain's majestic profile can still be seen, in the distance, beyond the fog caused by pollution.
A FLOWER OF MINE, the first film written and directed by Paolo Cognetti, which he also stars in, will have its world premiere at the 77th edition of the Locarno Film Festival as a pre-opening event on 6 th August in Piazza Grande. After the success achieved with The Eight Mountains – based on his novel of the same title and directed by Felix Van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch, which won the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize in 2022 – Paolo Cognetti comes to cinemas in Italy on 25th, 26th and 27th November with a new film, produced by Samarcanda Film, Nexo Studios, Harald House and EDI Effetti Digitali Italiani with the support of the Film Commission Valle d'Aosta.