During the economic boom of the ‘60s, Europe’s highest building is being built in Italy’s prosperous North. Meanwhile, at the other end of the country, young speleologists explore Europe’s deepest cave in the untouched Calabrian hinterland, reaching the bottom of the Bifurto Abyss, 700 metres deep, for the first time. The intruders’ venture is unnoticed by the inhabitants of a nearby village, but not by the solitary old shepherd of the Pollino plateau, whose hermitic life begins to interweave with the group’s own journey. 

Another work of captivating, near mystical beauty from Frammartino, pitched somewhere between a drama and a documentary study of the mysteries of organic life and nature, Il Buco chronicles an investigation into the unknown depths of the world and parallels two great voyages to the interior. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Venice 2021.

“It's a magnificent piece of work, completely beguiling from end to end and one which wears its immense philosophical profundity with admirable lightness.” Little White Lies