Banishing the ill wind

Banishing the ill wind

 

LA CACCIATA DEL MALVENTO

Italy

52', 2016

 

DIRECTED BY

Donato Canosa

PRODUCED BY

MuFilm di Andrea Deaglio

ETHNOLOGIST, ANTHROPOLOGIST, ETHNOMUSICOLOGIST

Prof. Pietro Angelini, University of Naples     

SCRIPTWRITER

Donato Canosa

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Donato Canosa

EDITED BY

Donato Canosa

MUSIC

Claudio Tortorici

 

At Grassano, a village in Italy’s South, an ancient magical practice aimed at mitigating the consequences of jealousy and bad luck, is used. The old women who perform the rituals have stirred opposing sentiments among the inhabitants of the village regarding the existence of divine forces beyond the dogmas of the official Christian religion.