Film Commission Torino Piemonte

Bormida is the story of a river and the encounters taking place along its length. Like a travelogue, the narrative follows its course from the Ligurian mountains down to the planes of the Lower Piedmont. This is not just a story, but a cascade of intertwined narratives whose source is the physical landscape itself, and which plunge the audience into a sensory, informative experience.
Two perspectives guide the viewer through this journey: the voice of an agronomist, who evokes the life of the community, and its relationship with, and stewardship of, the land, and that of two activists, whose tales explore the protest marches made on the local roads, highlighting the violence which formed the backdrop to the earliest significant environmentalist struggles in Italy. The places though, form hugely important characters too: the river, the woods, the dam, the factories, the roads and the railway. The film follows the trajectories of a man and girl through this space, and their search for clues to the past, present (and future) life of a valley and its inhabitants.