White Summer

Drama

An elderly hitman is forced by his fugitive sister to accompany his nephew from Sicily to Switzerland – a rapid but shocking journey and a radical change of landscape and context that will change all their existences. At first worlds apart, the slow rhythms of Val Bavona force them together, overwhelming them with a closeness they would never have imagined possible. Yet their fate looms, giving shape to a violent and cruel tale of survival in which not even the calm of Canton Ticino is what it seems…

“I don't need to draw the little star on my hand anymore... because now I've found dad's friends, right?”

Story and screenplay by Fabrizio Bozzetti and director Stefan Jäger.

A Swiss-Italian co-production by tellfilm (Zurich).

  • Project winner of the Casa Patronvà creative residence in Villa Carona (Switzerland).