(2025, Italy, Slovenia , 122')
Remis is a small mountain town, idyllic and seemingly in perfect harmony. Too perfect. When Sergio Rossetti (Michele Riondino), a new PE teacher, arrives seeking a second chance, he’s greeted only by smiling faces and an eerie calm that soon reveals something deeply disturbing. His encounter with Michela, a young innkeeper, leads him to uncover a chilling truth behind Remis’s cheerful façade: an ancient, unspeakable ritual that drags him beyond reason into the heart of a nightmare.
Director and screenwriter Paolo Strippoli (b. 1993) studied film in Italy and began his career as assistant director for Gianni Amelio, Daniele Luchetti, and Gianni Zanasi. In 2019, he won the Solinas Prize for Best Story with L’angelo infelice. He co-directed Netflix’s A Classic Horror Story (2020) and followed with Piove (2022). With La Valle dei Sorrisi, which he also wrote, he continues his journey in genre cinema.
