This year too he returns to the Trento Film Festival An hour to acclimatisethe event promoted by Il Dolomiti e l’AltraMontagna, in collaboration with Alto Rilievo, a blog edited by Pietro Lacasella, There will be a Bel Clima, a project dedicated to raising awareness of climate change and its impacts, and POW – Protect Our Winters , a community committed to protecting the climate and the environment.
Already a few months ago, the podcast was born from the collaboration between the Trento Film Festival and AltraMontagna A quarter of an hour to acclimatise, a weekly format dedicated to understanding the environmental and social crises currently taking place in the highlands, through the voices of those who experience them every day, study them and work to combat them. Written and hosted by Sofia Farina, meteorologist and science communicator, the podcast is edited by journalist and forestry doctor Luigi Torreggiani, with editorial support from Pietro Lacasella, Michele Argenta and Luca Pianesi.
Returning to the column planned during this 72nd Trento Film Festival, An hour to acclimatise, it represents an unmissable opportunity to address the crucial issues linked to climate change in a similar way, deepening its connections with the mountains. This will be done every day, during the ten daily appointments scheduled for 7pm in Piazza Cesare Battisti, a precious opportunity for debate and comparison between and with the main scholars of these topics.
Today, April 26th, it will be up to Luigi Dall’Armellina (manager of Malga Cere), Erica Balduzzi (freelance reporter) and Andrea Membretti (professor of Sociology of the territory at the University of Pavia) to inaugurate this space, discussing the theme New mountain people. What is the profile of the new mountaineers? Who wants to move to the valleys today, to fill the social voids caused by depopulation, even if services are scarce? With the climate crisis, the mountain will once again become the protagonist of contemporary living. Stories of those who stay and those who return, accompanied by an academic perspective and structured experiences in the mountains.
The story of the highlands and its inhabitants will also be at the center of tomorrow’s second meeting, Saturday 27 April. In Tale is mountain, mountain is story, Marco Albino Ferrari (journalist and screenwriter) and the journalist Camilla Valletti will question themselves on the role that the narrative component has had – and still has – in the process of building mountain imagery.
The third appointment, Uncontaminated does not existscheduled for Sunday 28 Aprilwill see Mauro Varotto (professor of Geography at the University of Padua) and Irene Borgna (writer and popularizer) discussing the importance of some “contaminated” territories, the myth of wilderness and the fate of the most anthropized mountains in the world: the Alps and the Apennines .
The link between natural and human ecosystems will instead occupy the fourth appointment of the event: Wood-punk, scheduled for Monday 29 April. Starting from the popular Ecotoni podcast, we will try to understand the state of health of Italian forests through the voice of those who work in the woods themselves, but also that of those who tell stories about them. A journey in the company of Luigi Torreggiani (journalist, writer and forestry doctor), Francesca Locatin (first woodcutter in Val di Fassa) and Riccardo Rizzetto (doctor in forestry sciences).
Sport, environment and ecological struggle will be the themes at the center of the fifth appointment, Tuesday 30 April. The athletes Lorenzo Barone (cyclo traveller), Eline Le Menestrel (climber) and Eleonora Delnevo (paraclimber), together with the photographer Elisa Bessega, will discuss the topic of cycling in the climate crisis. Here the bicycle becomes the protagonist: a formidable means of visiting the mountains, while at the same time paying attention to the environmental needs of the present.
The sixth appointment, Wednesday 1st May, it will be dedicated to the theme of political and/or mountain ecology. A dialogue between climate activists, those who live in the mountains and those who have seen their territory change irremediably: the researchers Francesca Talamini, Alice Dal Gobbo and Anna Castiglione, together with the writer Fabio Deotto, will question what is holding back the ecological transition and how to communicate , even through historical events, a revolution of this magnitude.
Thursday 2 May, in the seventh appointment of the column, local scientific bodies and provincial structures will come together to address the topic Agriculture and extreme events: how to adapt. Lavinia Laiti (APPA), Matteo Bortolini (Sant’Orsola), Loris Bonato (ITAS) and Alessia Felicetti (Felicetti) will discuss the importance of connecting science to the concrete experience of those who work in the area: farmers, for example, protagonists of the recent protests that have animated the whole of Europe.
The need to maintain communication in step with the times will instead be at the center of the eighth appointment. The influencers Giselda Torresan, Valentina Ciprian, Luca Baz and Carlo Budel, manager, among other things, of the Capanna Punta Penia in Marmolada, will discuss Friday 3 May in the meeting entitled Influencer: the mountain on Instagram. A crucial question serves as the basis for the discussion: can the Alps and the mountain people be described without stereotypes even through social networks?
In the ninth meeting, Saturday 4 May, the theme of collective memory will be addressed: the Vajont case. Cristina Da Rold, journalist, Irma Visalli, provincial councilor of Belluno, and Marcello Mazzucco, direct witness of the tragedy, will participate in a discussion focused on the ways in which to keep alive the memory of the tragedy that struck the villages of Erto and Casso, sixty years later and despite the evolution of forms of communication and historical interpretation.
In the tenth and final appointment, Sunday 5 May, space for a debate on the present and future of the Apennines, through virtuous examples of those who live and talk about the Apennines. The writer Sandro Campani, the head of LAMA Alessandra Zagli, Andrea Barzagli of Fogliatonda and Marco Tamarri, head of the Culture and Tourism Sector of the Union of Bolognese Apennines Municipalities, will be the Voices from the Apennines who will discuss, among other things, how depopulation has affected the “backbone” of Italy.
by Luca Zumerle
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