Italian Film Series: Il vento fa il suo giro [The Wind Blows Round, 2005) Giorgio Diritti
29 August 2025, 6 pm, Building 201 Room 265, University of Auckland
Discussion and refreshments to follow the screening
This month we start the first in a series of three films in the lead up to La Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo (International Italian Language Week), whose theme this year is 'confini'-borders. In addition to considering the Italian language beyond its territorial borders, we also consider internal ‘border’ issues including the survival of minority languages in Italy and the challenges to speakers from other linguistic or cultural backgrounds. This month’s film is set in a small town in the Italian Alps where the language of Occitan is still spoken. A former French teacher decides to relocate his family there to produce goat cheese. At first met with suspicion due to his unconventional ideas and lifestyle, the community eventually welcomes the young family and sees in them a possible rebirth of the town. But little by little misunderstandings, envy and conflicts take over.
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