Cows on the Roof directed by Aldo Gugolz won Festival international du film alpin des Diablerets Prize of the Development Society of Vers-l'Eglise (World culture).
Tuesday 10 August at 16.30 and Wednesday 11 August at 10.00
Fabiano is haunted by nightmares. They are a reflection of his life as the heir of his father’s small-scale agricultural business, located in an isolated valley of Southern Switzerland. He owns fifty goats and eight cows and is trying his best to produce the special alp cheese that first made his hippie parents back in the 1980s. But nothing is going the way it should... He is in debt, the alpine hut that he rents for the summer is dilapidated, and the goats cheese business is no longer profitable. His thoughts wander back to a fatal accident occurred the previous year to a Macedonian illegal worker. His death is haunting him, because he feels that he is at least in part responsible for it. Fabiano is not exactly in a good place to start a family, but will be a father soon. His girlfriend Eva is expecting – and is hoping to fulfill her dreams of a simple life surrounded by nature and animals. But how can they build a life together in such difficult circumstances?
Festival Internazionale del Cinema Alpino di Les Diablerets
The objective of the Festival is to enhance, promote and develop the production (cinema and television) of Alpine films and the protection of environment in the mountains. Furthermore, the Festival's mission is to present Swiss productions, also open its selection to those from abroad.