BOOK OF PROJECTS
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MIRKO GENDUSO - ITALY
Fires Among the furthest lands of Sicily, a man called Ino, not accepting his father’s decision to die, has to face the mysterious fires spreading towards their direction.
SYNOPSIS The burnt, endless wheat fields in the heart of Sicily. Ino is a farmer who lives in the shade of a giant wind turbine, facing the disease of his father, a man attached on a ventilation machine, whose last desire is to escape from stillness and see the snow for the first and last time. Ino will not resign
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himself to his father’s choice. While earth around him is slowly burning, he will try to defend the world he has built for his father, until the day the fire arrives in his land. A fire that may be no longer destructive, but liberating.