I Can Feel the Wind

original title:

Il senso del vento

production:

Quatro Film

country:

Italy

year:

2007

film run:

52'

format:

DV - colour

status:

Ready (09/09/2007)

festivals & awards:

In a small town on the shores of Lake Garda two instructors-volunteers organise a sailing course for six blind boys. The students learn the techniques and the basic concepts of sailing and become familiar with the board instrumentation. They also start living together. The training continues and the boys learn the rules and the strategy of competition, practising sailing with sonorous buoys and challenger boat, feeling the atmosphere of competition. It's only a simulation of match race, but for each of them this experience represents a personal evolution; human, social and sporting growth related directly to sailing.