26 Aprile 2024
Si apre oggi la settantaduesima edizione del festival internazionale di Cinema di Montagna di Trento. Le proiezioni cominceranno domani, sabato 27 aprile, e continueranno fino al 5 maggio. Sei sezioni, (Anteprime, Terre Alte, Proiezioni speciali, Orizzonti vicini, Destinazione Irlanda e Alp&ism), oltre alla principale sezione di film in concorso i cui vincitori saranno annunciati nella serata di sabato 4 maggio. E moltissimi eventi, fra presentazioni di libri, sessioni di “Montagnaterapia” con esibizione del Coro Prisma; mostre fotografiche; incontri con alpinisti, registi e scrittori; feste irlandesi e concerti.
The exhibition was inaugurated this morning The ice builders curated by Andrea Zatta, Fabio Saitto and Francesco Clerici, which will remain open for the entire duration of the festival. In the evening the festival will kick off at the Teatro Sociale, where Beppe Severgnini will talk about the mountains through his childhood memories, while the Polish mountaineer Krystof Wielick will present his new book, entitled Solo and published by Crobaccio: an opportunity to talk about the expedition of 17 February 1980, when Wielick managed, in the middle of winter, to reach the top of Everest.
Due to its beauty and its harshness, the mountain is a landscape with which an intimate, profound, private relationship is created. In the stories of those who have experienced it even in limited or distant moments of their lives, mountain memories are often conveyed as particularly precious and affective. It would seem that everyone, whether their contact with the mountains is daily or just a childhood memory, perceives their relationship with the mountains as one of particular choice. In the stories of mountaineers, writers and filmmakers, the mountain is never a background setting but always a co-protagonist of the narratives. Perhaps this is precisely why it needs dedicated bookshops and festivals, moments to broadcast its own mountain and listen to that of others.
Today the high lands are also among the most vulnerable landscapes in the face of the climate crisis. The rise in temperatures, but also the forced rhythms and anthropization imposed by mass tourism, have modified the environment, making it more vulnerable, fragile and dangerous.
The Trento Festival, has always been a reference event for the cinema dedicated to high altitude culture and the world of great explorers and mountaineersreflects these changes and the increasingly urgent reflections on the High Lands of the Planet and on need to learn how to protect mountain ecosystems.
And in fact this year it is one of the most anticipated films Marmolada – Mother rock by Cristiana Pecci and Matteo Maggi, which will be screened for the first time on Tuesday 30 April. A documentary that tells the story of the opening of a new route on the south face of the legendary “Queen of the Dolomites” and questions the relationship between the world of mountaineering and climate change. With Marmolada – Mother rock in fact he will dialogue Marmolada 03.07.22 by Giorgia Lorenzato and Manuel Zampellon, which will be screened on April 29 in the out-of-competition section Special screenings: a collage of interviews and archive material to reconstruct the tragedy which in July 2022 caused the collapse of a mass of 64 thousand cubic meters of ice and It cost the lives of eleven people.
The relationship between humans and the environment will be investigated by many of the films in competition over the next ten days: Le fils du chasseur by Juliette Riccaboni and the short film Intimate drinks by Samy Pollet-Villard will investigate the topic of sustainable hunting; Recordings of a weather camera by Bernhard Wenger and Bergfahrt by Dominique Margot will question the abominations of mass tourism. The return of the wolf by Tommaso Merighi and Niccolò Barca (Near Horizons section) will address the delicate topic of the return of the wolf to the Alps and its possible but difficult cohabitation with the human species.
During the first day, the book will also be presented Anthropocine, the green screen by Marino Midena, published by Altreconomia: an ecological rereading of the Italian cinema of these 120 years of cinematographic history.
Ten days of discussion, reflection and cinema, with guests such as Erri De Luca and great musical returns such as the Modena City Ramblers (Saturday 27 April). There will be more than 40 locations, 120 films screened and over 130 events planned. The complete program can be found on the site.
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Trento Film Festival
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