TRENT. The top four have been awarded special recognitions at the Trento Film Festival. Double prize for The Ice Builders by Francesco Clerici and Tommaso Barbaro. Mentions for Bergfahrt by Dominique Margot.
The Dolomites World Heritage Awardestablished by UNESCO Dolomites Foundation and from Sat-Tridentine Mountaineers Society the best film documenting the awareness of communities regarding the exceptional universal values recognized by UNESCO and the capacity for active conservation of the territory was awarded to Contadini di Confine / Grenzbauern by Michele Trentini (Italy/2024/72′).
This is the motivation of the independent jury, composed of Maria Carla Failo, Mauro Pascolini And Massimiliano Corradini: “The film proposes the theme of ‘resistance’ on the high lands, in this case based on breeding carried out with traditional systems and mechanization still ‘on a human scale’, which, thanks also to the richness of the mountain pasture, allow the production of a fine cheese like Trentingrana. The choice of interviews almost always conducted with the couple is appreciable. Finally, the theme of the border exists politically, but not in people’s feelings”. The award will be presented to the director at 3.00 pm at Cinema Modena Sala 2. A special mention has been awarded to Bergfahrt Of Dominique Margot (Switzerland/2023/97′).
The Bank Solidarity Award for Trentino – Alto Adige he went to the work that best manages to interpret situations of poverty, injustice, marginalization and social isolation which, in solidarity and mutual help, can find their redemption. The award goes to The Ice Builders by Francesco Clerici and Tommaso Barbaro (Italy/2024 /15′).
“The commitment of the inhabitants of the Zanskar territory, subjected to the glaciers that provide them with water for cultivation and livestock, face climate change and the negative externalities of the recurring drought by joining forces to build, with ingenuity and patient solidarity, small artificial glaciers to feed the aquifers, concretely demonstrating that things and existences are interdependent and connected”, wrote the jurors Ermanno Villotti, Michael Goller And Franco Dapor.
The film also won the Green Film Awardestablished by the Provincial Agency for Environmental Protection and the Trentino Film Commission for the film that most effectively expresses the values and practices of environmental protection and sustainability, with particular attention to the mountain environment and climate change.
“Told in an effective and engaging way, it raises awareness of a particular bottom-up climate adaptation strategy, based on the local knowledge of a mountain community that has fully understood the need to change paradigm having experienced the consequences of the climate crisis first-hand”, law in the motivation of the jury, composed of Marco Niro, Lavinia Laiti And Linnea Marzagora. The award will be announced at 6.45pm at Cinema Modena Sala 1. The jury of the Green Film Award also awarded a special mention to Bergfahrt by Dominique Margot.
On the same occasion the Anthropocene Muse Award, awarded to the work that best describes the relationship between humanity and the rest of the natural world in the Anthropocene era. The independent jury – composed of Stefano Zecchi, Massimo Bernardi, Davide Dalpiaz, Luca Scoz, Alice Labor And Fabio Pupin – awarded the prize to Death of a mountain by Nuno Escudeiro (Portugal, France/2023/37′): “Mixing period and current footage creates a narrative between reality and metaphor that shows the protagonist’s disenchantment with the mountains. From an idyllic place of childhood memories, the mountain becomes a land of border and conflict, where the apparently distant problems of the global world become dramatically close and tangible, inevitably involving the inhabitants of these places”.
