Il Canto del Respiro

Direct: Simona Canonica
Year: 2025
Running Time: 110 minutes
Language: Italian, Mongolian, English, Yolnu
Production: Amka Films Productions
Co-production: Redibis Film, RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera, in associazione con Emide Productions
Awards & Festival: Vision du Réel – World premiere, official selection 2025; 41st IDA Documentary Awards  – Best sound design – nominee – 2025; Miami Women Film Festival – Best documentary feature – 2025; Glocal Film Festival – Best director – 2025; Rotterdam Independent Film Festival – Best cinematography – 2025; Trento Film Festival – International competition – 2025; UBIFF – 17th Ulaanbaatar; International Film Festival – Opening film – 2025; IsReal – Documentary Film Festival – Best ethnomusicological film – 2025; CinemAmbiente – Official Selection – 2025; Contemporanea Film Festival – Official selection – 2025; Solothurn Film Festival – Panorama – 2025

Un viaggio in quattro culture lontane per ripercorrere gli stadi dell’origine del soffio vitale: la sua scoperta primigenia, la circolarità della respirazione, l’armonia del canto, il colore di ogni singola voce e la connessione con la parte più profonda di se stessi. Un percorso di crescita dal sogno originario alla sua trasformazione in tradizione e cultura, oggi salvaguardata come patrimonio dell’umanità. Verso una nuova consapevolezza delle manifestazioni del respiro.


An immersive journey through some of the world’s most ancient cultures, rediscovering the invisible element that connects all living beings to Nature: ànemos, the “vital breath” that becomes vibration, sound, voice, and song. In Australia, a descendant of the natives travels across the country to pass on the memory of his people and the power of the didgeridoo’s circular sound. In Mongolia, a boy searches for the primordial vibration of his voice, the wonder of harmonic singing. In Italy, in the heart of the Paneveggio woods, a red fir tree holds and reveals (to those who know how to listen) its own secret: the very essence of musi