La prima neve

Michele is eleven and lives in a small town in the mountains of Trento with his mother and his grandfather Pietro. He lost his father not long ago and talks to nobody. Dani, who has come from Togo, settles in the same town. Dani carries a loss of his own and is seeing snow for the first time in his life. The two slowly find each other. Andrea Segre's Italian film takes up migration not in the language of the news but through the grief of two people. The telling makes nobody a rescuer and builds no easy friendship. The mountain landscape, the beekeeping and the work with timber give the film its rhythm. Giuseppe Battiston is also in the cast. The tone is quiet and the pace slow.