On the occasion of the screenings in the theater today, the first four special awards will be awarded: Dolomiti Patrimonio Mondo, the Banca Solidarietà Award for Trentino – Alto Adige, the Green Film Award and the Anthropocene MUSE Award.
The Dolomites World Heritage Awardestablished by the UNESCO Dolomites Foundation and the SAT Società Alpinisti Tridentini for the best film that documents the awareness of communities regarding the exceptional universal values recognized by UNESCO and the capacity for active conservation of the territory, was attributed to Contadini di Confine / Grenzbauern’s 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 still mechanization” on a human scale”, which, thanks also to the richness of the mountain pastures, allow the production of a fine cheese such as Trentingrana. The choice of interviews almost always conducted with the couple is appreciable. Finally, the theme of the border which exists politically, but not in people’s feelings, should be underlined.” The award will be presented to the director at 3.00 pm at Cinema Modena Sala 2.
A special mention was given to Bergfahrt by Dominique Margot (Switzerland/2023/97′)
The Bank Solidarity Award for Trentino – Alto Adige, established by the Bank for Trentino – South Tyrol to the work that best knows how to interpret situations of poverty, injustice, marginalization and social isolation which, in solidarity and mutual help, can find their redemption, instead 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, Michele Goller and Franco Dapor. The same film also wins the Green Film Award, established by the provincial agency for environmental protection and by 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 local knowledge of
a mountain community that has fully understood the need to change the paradigm for having experienced the consequences of the climate crisis first-hand”, reads 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.
It will also be delivered on the same occasion the Anthropocene MUSE Prize, 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′): «By mixing period and current footage, a narrative is created 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 borders and conflict, where the apparently distant problems of globality become dramatically close and tangible, inevitably involving the inhabitants of these places.”
