

Two brothers, one buffalo farm, and the mob coming for their land. Southern Italian noir hits different.
Two brothers who own a buffalo farm near Caserta attempt to resist the pressures of local mobsters who want to turn their land into an illegal landfill.
Acting
Massimiliano Gallo's simmering, never-explodes performance
Cinematography
Mist-shrouded Campanian wetlands as suffocating character
Direction
Olivares lets dread accumulate like toxic groundwater
Director
Diego Olivares
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Caserta's 'Land of Fires' is real: the region has hundreds of illegal toxic dumps controlled by Camorra clans, making this essentially docufiction.
The buffalo—silent, lumbering, commodified—mirror the brothers themselves: bred for production, disposable when inconvenient.