Project selected for the Meditalents Award at the Milano Film Network

One winter morning, while walking in the northern outskirts of Milan, I came across a fallow deer staring at me from behind an iron gate. Over time I discovered his name is Spillo and he lives on an educational farm surrounded by tall apartment blocks among geese, ducks, chickens, ponies, turtles and many species of birds. That strip of land has belonged to the Turati family for more than a century and four generations and contains an unexpected soul: behind the fence and the farm there is a funeral home, with an underground marble workshop and a shaded courtyard where one can say a final goodbye to a loved one. The Last Day of Winter is a documentary that tells the story of this special place through the everyday gestures of work, the mourning conveyed through the eyes of surveillance cameras and the relationship with the animals.

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