Village people: 'The Wind Blows Round' tells story of human struggle in the Italian Alps

Compelled to relocate after their home in the Pyrenees became host to a nuclear power plant, a French cheese maker, his wife, and their three children move to a remote village in Northern Italy in director Giorgio Diritti's culture clash comedy-drama.

The people in the village of Chersogno still speak Occitan, and little has changed there over the past century; the dying village mostly sustained by the flocks of summer tourists seeking a brief respite from the big city. When Philippe and his family first arrive there, the residents are very suspicious. Nevertheless, the townspeople hoped that the new arrivals might reinvigorate Chersogno's failing economy. All the family wanted was a peaceful place where they could herd their sheep and make their cheese, but before long tensions are simmering and the town quickly starts to turn on them. As things go from bad to worse, even the well-intending village elder proves unable to restore the peace.

One showing only at the Detroit Film Theatre, Thursday, April 2 at 7:30 p.m.
 
The  screening of Il Vento Fa Il Suo Giro (The Wind Blows Round) is a presentation of the Italian Film Festival USA of Detroit, and is free to the public thanks to the collaboaration of The Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago, Dante Alighieri Society (Michigan Chapter), Federazione Abruzzese del Michigan, Circolo Italiano of Wayne State University and the DIA's Detroit Film Theatre.

Entrance to the theater is from the John R side of the building. The DIA is at 5200 Woodward Avenue, in Detroit's Midtown.