The Wind Blows Round
 

Director: Giorgio Diritti
Screenplay: Giorgio Diritti, Fredo Valla
Photography: Roberto Cimatti
Music: Marco Biscarini, Daniele Furlati
Cast: Thierry Toscan, Alessandra Agosti, Dario Anghilante, Giovanni Foresti
Editing: Edu Crespo & Giorgio Diritti
Production: AranciaFilm, Imago Orbis Audiovisivi - Simone Bachini, Mario Chemello, Giogo Diritti
International Distribution: AranciaFilm, Imago Orbis Audiovisivi, via Drapperie 8, 40124 Bologna - Italy, tel. +39 0516569657,
fax +39 0515883723, e-mail: info@aranciafilm.com
Year: 2005. Running Time: 110’
 
Giorgio Diritti’s strongly felt first feature, The Wind Blows Round, takes us to a tiny mountain hamlet near the French border, where the Provençal or Occitan language is still spoken. In the name of cultural preservation, it has become a mere attraction for summer tourists. The villagers, set in their ways, are shaken to the core when French goatherd Philippe (Thierry Toscan), his young wife Chris (Alessandra Agosti) and their children decide to move in. What happens next is told with a subtle and knowing hand. Stunning landscapes form a dramatic background to an extremely topical story of intolerance and its evil fruit
 
  
 
 

 

 
  

  

  

          

    
 
 
              
 

                   

     
Giorgio Diritti 
He developed his career working with Italian directors, like Pupi Avati. He also made film castings in Emilia Romagna, among these La voce della luna by Federico Fellini. He joined the activity of “Ipotesi Cinema”, an institution coordinated by Ermanno Olmi to train young authors. As a director he produced numerous documentaries and works for television programs. His first documentary A Sailor Hat was chosen for competitions in many European Festivals such as the Clermont Ferrand festival.