The barefoot valley

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The barefoot valley (La valle scalza)

original title:

La valle scalza

production:

country:

Italy

year:

2025

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colour

status:

In post-production (15/09/2025)

Val Grande, Italy's largest wilderness area, for more than 15 years was home to Gianfranco Bonaldo, known to everyone as Gianfry, the barefoot hermit. After his death, caused by strychnine poisoning, a camera has been found. The footage, shot by himself, is about his wild life. Starting with this precious footage, the documentary aims to reconstruct his life from a harsh and difficult childhood to his days as a hermit, finding his redemption and peace among the streams, rocks, and woods that Gianfry called home, when he chose to give a second chance to the child he had never been able to be.