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The Trento Film Festival returns with the 72nd edition which bears the subtitle of “mountains and cultures”. The oldest festival dedicated to mountain cinema, but also to books, meetings and much more, is scheduled from 26 April to 5 May

The Trento Film Festival will propose a total of 120 films, divided between seven sections, and 166 events. Many guests, such as the Slovenian mountaineer Silvo Karo who will talk about his ascents in the “Light and fast” evening, the philosopher Umberto Galimberti, the writers Mauro Corona, Arno Camenisch, Enrico Brizzi, Fosco Terzani and Erri De Luca, as well as actor Alessio Boni who will host an evening of stories and music at the Teatro Sociale.

The opening film will be the Tunisian “Oura El Jbel – Behind the Mountain” by Ben Attia Mohamed, presented at the last Venice Film Festival, while the closing film will be the Peruvian “Kinra – Motherland” by Marco Panatonik.

Another important moment of the Festival was the screening of the restored version of the documentary “The shining mountain – Gasherbrum – Der leuchtende Berg” by Werner Herzog from 1984, with the presence of Reinhold Messner, protagonist with his climbing partner Hans Kammerlander of a little-known film and very Herzogian.

The international competition includes 25 titles of various formats, including the Armenian short film “Qar” by Arman Ayvazyan about the war in Nagorno Karabakh. Five Italians in the competition: “Marmolada – Mother rock” by Matteo Maggi and Cristiana Pecci, “Api” by Luca Ciriello, “Segnali di vita” by Leandro Picarella, “Terra nova, the land of long shadows” by Lorenzo Pallotta and “ Il Picco della Ventura” by Mattia Tafel.

Two more French ones, the science fiction “Pyramiden” by Damien Faure and “Maurice Baquet, l’accordé” by Gilles Chappaz which pays homage to the transalpine cinema of the 30s and 40s through the figure of a mountaineering cellist, while the animation is Swiss “Seventeen” by Thomas Horat about a young partisan on a mission on Lake Maggiore.

The Alp&Ism” competition dedicated to mountaineering films is always very important, including “Toni’s Trace – Toni Gobbi from Citizen to Alpine Guide” by Antonio Bocola (his “Chemical Hunger” directed with Paolo Vari in 2003 is memorable).

Reserved for the ever-growing production of Trentino and Alto Adige are the nearby Orizzonti: worth highlighting is the very personal “Across” by Irene Dorigotti, one of the discoveries of the Venice Days of Authors which in recent weeks begins a distribution tour across Italy; “Bambini di frontier” by Manu Gerosa (known for “Between Sisters” and “One More Jump”); “Border farmers” by Michele Trentini; “That’s life. Endrizzi, the stories behind the story” by Katia Bernardi (to be remembered for “Funne”).

The documentary “Souvenir of War” by Georg Zeller on Bosnia 25 or more years after the war still appears, filmed between Jajce, Srebrenica, Sarajevo and Tuzla, especially following foreign tourists, amid unresolved traumas and war tourism. Joining the conversation is Adnan, an unemployed conflict veteran who is looking for work and accompanies German visitors to the Sarajevo tunnel.

In the Previews section, “Gondola” stands out, a Georgia / Germany production by the German Veit Helmer (who already won over the audiences of Trento years ago with the surreal comedy “Absurdistan”), a love story without words, “à la Jacques Tati”, about “ gondolas” of a mountain cableway.

The previews are completed by the philosophical thriller “The theory of the universal” by Timm Kröger, already in competition at the last Venice Film Festival, the French “Soudain seuls” by Thomas Bidegain with Mélanie Thierry and Gilles Lellouche, the German psychological thriller “Cuckoo” by Tilman Singer and the Nepalese fairy tale “Snow Leopard”, the last film by the late Pema Tseden.

The Terre Alte section, expanded in numbers this year, includes the short film “Ever since, I have been flying” by the Swiss-Turkish Gökmen Aylin.

The overview of a specific country has been confirmed, this year Ireland with Destination Ireland, which includes the screening of 16 titles linked to the Emerald Isle, including shorts and feature films, documentaries and fiction works. These include the Italian-Irish animation “Mary and the Midnight Spirit” by Enzo D’Alò, the documentary “North Circular” and “The Quiet Girl” by Colm Bairead. Cisco from the Modena City Ramblers will also be present and will perform the songs from “Riportando tutto a casa”, 30 years after the album’s release.

There is also a lot to discover among the special screenings, starting with a cornerstone of mountain cinema “Der Berg des Schicksals” (1924) by the pioneer Arnold Fanck. In the lead are “Ambin – The Rock and the Feather” by the Piedmontese Fredo Valla (known and awarded several times as a screenwriter with Giorgio Diritti) and “Flavio Paolucci. From Guelmin to Biasca” by Villi Hermann from Ticino.

Last but not least, there is a special event in memory of Francesco Nuti with the revival of one of his most beloved films, “Tutta fault del Paradiso” (1985) with Ornella Muti, filmed in Valle d’Aosta.

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