From a documentary film about mountaineering and what it means today to pursue summits, one could hardly expect anything but spectacular settings, and the locations of For Silence and Wind, the latest work by Marco Zuin arriving in theaters on September 21, 2026, do not disappoint: as scholars, climbers, farmers, and residents speak about their relationship with the mountains, on screen thrilling images of the Dolomites unfold.
Discover where the film was shot, which, precisely for its ability to tell the mountain heritage in an unconventional way, received support from the Trentino Film Commission, Veneto Film Commission, Montura, CAI Nazionale, and Fondazione Dolomiti UNESCO.
What It’s About
A writer, Matteo Righetto, finds himself in a small mountain hut reading the notes for his next book. His reflections on writing, the value of time, and a daily life often marked by haste that pushes him to forget the things that truly count form the through line for the entire film. As he encounters climbers from different generations, a young climber, a legend of the eight-thousanders, several scholars, and people who have chosen to remain living at high altitudes, the writer—and, along with him, the viewer—realizes how the mountains are often the first sentinels of major crises in progress: starting with the climate crisis and ending with the socio-economic one. From the peaks, however, there also comes the hope of a possible change.
Where Was the Film Shot
As Matteo Righetto himself confirmed in a post on Instagram at the end of filming, the locations where the film For Silence and Wind was shot are mostly in Italy—between the Veneto, Trentino Alto Adige, Piemonte, and Valle d’Aosta—but with shoots also in Switzerland. True co-protagonists, more than mere locations, of For Silence and Wind are the Dolomites, as mentioned.
The journey begins in the Belluno Dolomites, the place where the writer chose to live and is now known for years for his ecological and mountain activism.
Here, among renowned mountain centers, particularly Cortina d’Ampezzo but also the same Belluno, regarded as a kind of “little Venice” of the mountains, a certain stereotype about mountains and what it means to go for peaks has taken shape over the years.
There is, however, a mountain completely different from the one captured in the Instagrammable shots of the Tre Cime di Lavaredo, the Marmolada, and the Tofane, which nonetheless remain among the most fascinating sights to behold in the area, recommended by National Geographic among the Best of the World 2026 and increasingly chosen as sets by major film productions.
It is a mountain far from mass tourism, made up of majestic rock faces to climb, dense forests in which to get lost so as to truly rediscover oneself, spartans shelters in which to appreciate the simple, genuine routine of those who have chosen to live at high altitude. Matto Righetto and Marco Zuin attempt to tell this story in the film with extraordinary on-site footage and archival images.
The real highlight of the documentary is, in fact, clips from the writer’s family archive where the extraordinary beauty of the Dolomites captured on Super8 vividly conveys the passage of time and the changes, even in nature.
