Pietro's family returns to Grana, but it’s not the same without Bruno. However, Bruno’s father soon takes him away to work for the summer and they do not see each other again.įive years later, the 16-year-old Pietro and Bruno coincidentally meet at a bar, but neither speaks to the other. One day, Bruno tells Pietro that Pietro’s parents have offered to adopt Bruno so he can go to school in Turin, and his uncle has agreed Pietro, fed up with city life and believing Bruno should not be uprooted from his present life, protests this decision. Months later, Pietro’s father Giovanni arrives as well and the trio go on a hike. Pietro and Bruno quickly become friends and while the summer away. Estranged from his parents, he lives with his uncles and aunt. There, they meet Bruno, the last kid remaining in the village. In the summer of 1984, Pietro, an 11-year-old from Turin, and his mother, Francesca, rent a house in Grana in the Italian Alps. The next year it was awarded the David di Donatello for Best Film. The film premiered in competition at the 75th Cannes Film Festival on, where it won the Jury Prize tying with EO.

The title is a reference to the concept in Buddhism and ancient Indian cosmology that the world is composed of nine mountains and eight seas, specifically eight concentric circular mountain ranges separated from one another by eight seas, with the ninth and tallest mountain, Mount Meru, at the center. The film depicts a friendship between two men who spend their childhood together in a remote Alpine village and reconnect later as adults. The Eight Mountains ( Italian: Le otto montagne) is a 2022 Italian drama film co-directed by Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch, who co-adapted the screenplay from the novel of the same name by Paolo Cognetti.

Le otto montagne by Paolo Cognetti