Cows on the Roof directed by Aldo Gugolz participates at Cervino CineMountain IFF (Grand Prix)...
July 31 - 02 August 08, 2021
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?
Cervino CineMountain International Film Festival
The highest international mountain film festival in Europe, takes place at the foot of the Matterhorn (Cervino) and it's one of the most important cultural events in the Aosta Valley, Italy.
The nature of its program and its aims make it, together with the Trento Film Festival, the most important festival dedicated to mountain films in Italy.
As well as putting together the winning films of other IAMF (International Alliance for Mountain Film) festivals and awarding the “Oscar of the Oscars” for the best mountain film of the year, the festival offers a selection of top quality works which portray the mountains under all their different facets: environment, climate, adventure, sport, culture and history.