In Venice, the volunteers of Laguna nel Bicchiere comes together to make wine so as to take care of an increasingly fragile environment, but during the course of the year bureaucratic hold ups, climatic events and other problems put everything at risk, even its own existence.

“The Venetian Year” follows a year in the life of Laguna nel Bicchiere, a cultural association whose aim is to safeguard the abandoned vineyards in the Venice lagoon. The story begins as a fable with a group of cheerful and noisy people getting to work on a grape harvest. The stranger gazes in amazement upon the discovery of a secret world of walled vineyards, boat journeys and even a cellar in a 16th century monastery on the island of San Michele, the city’s cemetery.
Yet, as the season continues, it becomes clear that something is not quite right in this bucolic picture; something elusive, less obvious, but much more important...
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Audio: Italian, English, Veneto
Subtitles: English
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A film by Andrea Mignòlo.
With Renzo De Antonia, Vanna Purisiol, Silvio Franceschet, Cesare Benelli, Jutta Palmen, Alberto Crovato, Coleen McCann, Gigi Miracol, Simone Salin, Gianpaolo Simonetti, Giuliano Tessier, Sergio Torcinovich, Davide Tuzzato, Massimo Tuia, Lia Vianello and the other volunteers of “Laguna nel bicchiere”.