

Herdsman Fabiano will be a father soon. He owns fifty goats and eight cows and is trying his best to produce the alpine cheese that his hippie parents made a name for themselves with in the '70s, in an isolated valley of Ticino. But nothing is going the way it should. He's in debt, and feels guilty for a fatal accident which occurred the previous year, which haunts him. How can he and his girlfriend build a life together under such difficult circumstances?
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Aldo Gugolz's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
“Every frame feels alive. Cows on the Roof is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”