Be Water, Rai Cinema Unveil 'Bianco' Images Before Cannes
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- Be Water Film and Rai Cinema unveiled new images for Bianco, Daniele Vicari's €11.5M ($13.2M) drama recounting the 1961 disaster in which seven elite alpinists attempted Mont Blanc's Frêney pillar and were trapped for four days without food or shelter
- Alessandro Borghi stars as Italian alpinist Walter Bonatti, joined by Pierre Deladonchamps, Finnegan Oldfield, Marlon Joubert, Quentin Faure, Alessio Del Mastro, and Jonas Bloquet in the international cast
- Production spent three months shooting at altitudes of 3,000 to 3,500 meters in Italy's Aosta Valley and recreated the pillar in three sections inside a studio, with Benuts handling VFX
- Rai Cinema International Distribution will present first footage at the Cannes market, with the film slated for completion in Q4; the project is a co-production with France's The Project Film Club and Belgium's Tarantula
- Be Water Film CEO Mattia Guerra called the project the company's most ambitious to date and its first major international feature, with a stated goal of producing one large international project per year
Why it matters: For Be Water Film, a Rome-based company launched in 2021, this €11.5M multi-country co-production with Rai Cinema, France's The Project Film Club, and Belgium's Tarantula marks a scale-up to A-list international filmmaking under new CEO Mattia Guerra. Rai Cinema International Distribution using the Cannes market as a world-sales launchpad signals commercial ambitions for a prestige mountaineering drama anchored by Alessandro Borghi and a story that still divides the climbing world six decades later.
