Tatti in the World

(Release 2025)

a film by Ruedi Gerber

During decades of globalization, countless rural communities worldwide found themselves

abandoned - from America's Midwest to Italy's hill villages.

In the Italian settlement Tatti, in Tuscany, elderly residents lacked strength to reinvent their fading world and lost hope. Only the arrival of outsiders began shifting this trajectory. This film chronicles the filmmaker Ruedi Gerber’s friendship with the village's last farmers - twin brothers Marco and Massimo, who had spent generations adapting to ever-changing realities. They embraced collaboration with newcomers, working to resurrect abandoned farmland.

The village's revival finds its emotional center in Marco's personal crisis. He must master self-transformation - honoring his roots while reimagining his future.

This story captures rural resilience universally. It shows how partnerships between longtime residents and committed newcomers can revive seemingly hopeless places. Marco's struggle mirrors the challenge facing forgotten communities everywhere: evolving without losing their soul, embracing change while protecting what matters most.

The film becomes both intimate portrait and broader meditation - showing that renewal requires courage to transform while preserving what should never be lost.

2025 | Switzerland | 92min. | Documentary
Dialogue: Italian
Subtitles: English