In a small town in the Appennins, young and devout Antimo lives an uneventful life between the local church, the chaste dates with his girlfriend and the cowshed where he lazily works with his dad. One day, he meets Lazzaro, a simple and wild man who works as a helper in the nearby farm. Antimo sees a spark in Lazzaro and sets out to convert him. The religion he starts teaching him doesn’t reflect what he learnt at Sunday school though. It’s a personal and heretic reading of Christianity, which leads the two on unbeaten paths, with no way back.

Where the Wind Blows is the perfect continuation of Marco Righi’s debut feature, Days of Harvest (2010). This small film, with a small cast, and script, progresses not so much by action, but rather by the feelings of the protagonists and the relationships established between them.

The writing is straightforward and reaches into dark, troubled areas of the unconscious with eternal questions about God, sin, death, and responsibility for one’s actions. The narrative is set in motion by the meeting between the protagonist Antimo and Lazzaro, a stable worker. Antimo is a pious young man committed to seeking Christ and believes that in order to find him, he must become involved in society and heal people’s wounds. Lazzaro is a simple man, without superstructures, a lonely soul, seeking a guide to show him the meaning of life.

Where the Wind Blows is a fictional story exploring sacred themes. The film is devoid of Manichaeism, it focuses on the atmosphere and on the intimate and

prosaic bond that binds the inhabitants of the village in which the story is set.

The italian title of the feature film – Il vento soffia dove vuole – refers to the biblical words with which Jesus addresses Nicodemus, a religious man who wonders who the young man from Nazareth is, who is causing trouble in his country. Jesus answers him that: “the wind blows where it will”; that the Spirit of God is more valuable than the rules of the Church.

"If in "Days of Harvest" the desire was to recount a few days of “discovery” of a teenager named Elia in a late summer in the province of Emilia-Romagna, in Where the Wind Blows the intent is to show the complexity of the inner life of Antimo, its protagonist. There is still a daily scanning of time, during Holy Week, there is the province – a mountain village – and there is on Antimo’s part a personal quest", declared the Director Marco Righi.

"With the film “Where the Wind Blows” we wanted to believe in the promising path started by director Marco Righi who had not been able to make his second work for cinema for more than 10 years. Despite a very tight budget that forced us to make courageous choices on the production side, we managed together with Marco to package an impactful film capable of bringing the viewer into a world that we are no longer used to seeing on the big screen" added the Producer Emanuele Caruso - Obiettivo Cinema.

Budgeted at €196,000, this independent film was shot in 3 weeks with the support of Emilia-Romagna Film Commission.