A hidden valley where time forgot to hurry—and neither will you.
Documentary about the isolated farming communities in Valchiusella, Italy and the methods they use to survive.
Cinematography
Patient, wordless observation that trusts viewers to pay attention.
Direction
Swedish filmmakers who vanished into Italian hills and never left.
Director
Mari Marten-Bias Wahlgren
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mari Marten and Anders Wahlgren were a Swedish filmmaking couple who specialized in disappearing European subcultures; this was their final collaboration before Marten's death.
Valchiusella's Occitan-speaking communities were already vanishing in 1986; today fewer than 200 native speakers remain, making this documentary accidentally archival.
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