07/03/2013 - The film, directed by Claudio Noce, was exclusively filmed in Trentino. The cast includes, alongside the Serb director, Ksenia Rappoport and Adriano Giannini

Filming for Claudio Noce’s (photo), La foresta di ghiaccio, has come to a close. Produced by Rai Cinema and Ascent Film and starring Serb director Emir Kusturica, Russian Ksenia Rappoport and Adriano Giannini, the film was shot over a period of two months in the Valle del Chiese part of Trentino (with support from the Trentino Film Commission). It will be ready for potential selection for the next Venice Film Festival, where the director had his debut in 2009 with Good Morning Aman [+see also:
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La Foresta di ghiaccio is a thriller set along the Bissina dam in Val Daone, where trouble on an electric plant let emerge a series of mysteries in the region. “We wanted to make a genre film, a thriller, to give it an international air, locating it in a relatively undefined place, which could be Mitteleuropa, as much as North America or Canada,” Noce said.

''The idea for the film’s story,” the director continued, “was born two years ago, but we didn’t know where to base it. After a survey along the Val Daone mountains, I felt like that was the right place for the story. The mountain contributed to enhance the film-like aspects of the thriller.” 

Distribution is being done by Bolero Film, but Andrea Paris and Matteo Rovere’s Ascent Film is set to find another foreign distributor, “to bring the film outside of Italian borders.” 

(Translated from Italian)