It will always be the small secular breviary of Acclimarsi alla luce that will kick off the fourth day of the Trento Film Festival: forty-five minutes daily between sounds, silences and words, scheduled starting from 7am at the Church of Santa Maria del Suffragio and designed in collaboration with the diocesan Chieseacolori project.
At 10.30, in the setting of the Alpine Space SAT, the meeting Future Memories: landscapes and stories of abandonment, organized by Marco Ferrari and Sara Favargiotti of the University of Trento and with the participation of Simonetta Zanon of the Benetton Foundation, Massimo Bernardi and Alice Labor of MUSE and the artist and photographer Silvia Camporesi. A journey into the future scenarios that await abandoned landscapes and marginal areas, among new protagonists and alternative visions.
Again at 10.30, but in the spaces of Radio Dolomiti in Piazza Duomo, it will be the turn of 3D reconstructions and augmented reality to reconstruct the historical identity of the city of Trento: Elisa Mariarosaria Farella, researcher at the 3D Optical Metrology (3DOM) unit of the Fondazione Bruno Kessler will present the CICATRICI project, financed by the Caritro Foundation, which combines historical, geographical, geomatic and sociological sciences for the study and digital reconstruction of places with high symbolic value for the Trentino capital.
At 11.30, in Piazza Cesare Battisti, the first appointment of the Adventure out of town column is scheduled: You don’t go only to Santiago will see the participation of Enrico Brizzi, Valentina Scaglia and Leonardo Bizzaro, in a dialogue regarding everything there is to know about the routes, from the most famous to the lesser known ones. In case of bad weather, the event will be held in the conference room of Palazzo Benvenuti.
At 12.15 pm the MontagnaLibri Literary Lounge will be the scene of the daily meeting What do I see today? with the director of the film program Mauro Gervasini and the guest directors at the festival, to present the films of the day and guide the public to discover the screenings. Then leaving space, starting at 4pm, for the presentation of the winning book in the “Mountain Life and History” section at the 2024 ITAS Award: Golden Years by Arno Camenisch (Keller), the ironic and nostalgic story of a luminous world that risks to disappear forever, in a story that makes a small corner of the mountains a mirror of our times. Enrico Cereghini will dialogue with the author.
At 5pm, space for the second masterclass of this edition: Zitti e Nuti, hosted at HarpoLab, is a laboratory that starts from the role played by Francesco Nuti in the history of Italian cinema, recently told in a podcast of the same name. Dialogue among themselves and with the public were the director and writer Emiliano Cribari, the podcast producer Clara Collalto (Officina del Podcast) and the film historian Rocco Moccagatta.
At 5.30 pm, in the MontagnaLibri literary lounge, the meeting entitled Dolomite resonances. When the sublime questions man, with the participation of Paolo Costa, Loredana Ponticelli and Davide Baldrati. The three, moderated by the journalist Giambattista Zampieri, will discuss our responsibilities in the presence of “dizzying beauty”, on the occasion of the Franz Dantone exhibition. Dolomite photographer (1839-1909).
At 6pm, in the spaces of Palazzo Roccabruna, appointment with The via ferratas in the Alps: a cultural history. The event (organized by Tsm | adm – Accademia della Montagna, in collaboration with Cantieri d’Alta Quota, SAT, the College of Alpine Guides – Mountaineering Masters of the province of Trento and SOSAT) will see Luca Gibello, Gianluca Cepollaro, Riccardo Decarli, Simone Elmi and Luciano Ferrari regarding the history of the construction of via ferratas in the Alps, read through the evolution of ways of thinking and frequenting the mountains.
Also at 6pm, but in the Church of Santa Maria del Suffragio, the presentation of the book Semi di memoria: a dialogue with the author Roberto Vettori, edited by ViTrenD, which will become an authentic journey through family memories, between nature, places and emotions, but also feelings and words of ancient knowledge.
At 6.30 pm, in the conference room of Palazzo Benvenuti, Trentino for Tibet odv will illustrate the Ice Stupa project, the future of Zanskar, created to tackle climate change and grant an alternative tomorrow to the local people. Engineer Wangchuk Sonam, the inventor of the Ice Stupas, a sort of artificial glaciers, will speak.
For the column An hour to acclimatise, at 7pm in Piazza Cesare Battisti, Luigi Torreggiani, Francesca Locatin and Riccardo Rizzetto will discuss in an event entitled Wood-Punk, trying to understand the state of health of Italian forests through the voice of those in woods works and who tells them. If forests are fundamental natural and human ecosystems in the fight against the climate crisis, how should we manage them so that they truly become our allies? In case of bad weather, the event will be held in the spaces of the MontagnaLibri literary salon.
Finally, at 9pm, at the Teatro Sociale, the long-awaited Legami mountaineering evening, with Elio Orlandi and the extraordinary participation of the actor Alessio Boni. If for Orlandi what matters most is not so much the rock wall, but rather the links with places and people who meet thanks to mountaineering, the voice of Alessio Boni will try to unravel this network of encounters, thanks to guests, stories and music, along the thread of 50 years of activity carried out by the Trentino mountaineer between the Dolomites and Patagonia. The evening will be hosted by Fausta Slanzi and Raffaello Fusaro, accompanied by the music of Miscele d’aria Factory.
Highlights | Cinema program
Here are the films not to be missed on this fourth day of the Festival. In Competition, we highlight Maurice Baquet, l’accordé by Gilles Chappaz (Supercinema Vittoria, 5.15 pm), an Italian premiere documentary focused on the figure of Maurice Baquet: French musician, playmaker, actor, mountaineer and skier. From Paris to Chamonix, from theater stages to granite slabs to snowy slopes, the film retraces his adventures, with a dense repertoire of vintage images and videos. Terra Nova, the land of long shadows by Lorenzo Pallotta (Multisala Modena, Room 3, 7.15 pm, in the presence of the director) instead tells the story of an Italian icebreaker, busy navigating on the trail of a similar expedition carried out by another ship to Antarctica in 1988, with the aim of reaching the southernmost point of the planet.
For the Destination… Ireland section, it will be the turn of Ballywalter by Prasanna Puwanarajah, accompanied by the short An Irish Goodbye by Tom Berkeley and Ross White (Multisala Modena, Room 3, 9.15 pm), winner of the Oscar for best short film in 2023 If the first is the story of Eileen, who has dropped out of university and has now abandoned her dream of a successful life in London to try to make ends meet by working as an illegal taxi driver in Belfast, the second is a black comedy, set on a farm in rural Northern Ireland, which follows the reunion of two brothers, Turlough and Lorcan, following the untimely death of their mother.
For the Terre Alte section, the program includes Zinzindurrunkarratz by Oskar Alegria (Multisala Modena, Sala 2, 3pm), the story of a director who decides to go in search of the mountain path that the shepherds of his town once followed by practicing transhumance, and the Italian premiere of Sadpara by Gabriele Canu (Multisala Modena, Room 3, 5.15 pm, in the presence of the director), a journey through the heart of the Pakistani mountains, chasing the roots of a name that becomes a people and of the bond that unites with the high lands.
For the Orizzonti vicini section, the national preview of Marmolada 03.07.22 by Giorgia Lorenzato and Manuel Zarpellon will be screened (Supercinema Vittoria, 7pm, in the presence of the directors), a film which, through interviews, unpublished archive material and new footage, constitutes a true dedication to those who lost their lives that day and to all those who did their utmost to help and recover survivors and non-survivors. Also for Orizzonti vicini, Across by Irene Dorigotti (Multisala Modena, Sala 2, 5pm, in the presence of the director) is an autobiographical documentary that tells the story of Irene, who grew up in the Italian Alps in a family linked to travel and scout culture, who, taking advantage of the exhibition of the Shroud in Turin, sets off in search of his own religious path.
For the Alp&Ism section, we highlight Toni’s trace – Toni Gobbi from citizens to mountain guides by Antonio Bocola (Supercinema Vittoria, 3pm, in the presence of the director): a tribute to the life of Antonio Gobbi, known as Toni, famous mountaineer and mountain guide , who followed his passion with determination, leaving behind a legacy that survives the test of time. Also on the program for Alp&Ism is Nuptse: l’inaccessible absolu by Hugo Clouzeau (Multisala Modena, Room 2, 7pm), the story, in Italian premiere, of the long and fascinating dream of Hélias Millerioux, Frédéric Degoulet and Benjamin Guigonnet: that to open a new extreme route on the legendary south face of Nuptse, a wall of almost 8000 meters in the heart of the Himalayas. Finally, again for Alp&Ism, we remember the appointment with today’s Cincontri: Þetta Reddast by Valentin Rapp (Supercinema Vittoria, 9.15 pm), the national preview story of the expedition that the mountaineer Tamara Lunger faced together with her father through the fascinating landscapes of Iceland. Guests in the room include the director, Tamara and Hansjörg Lunger.
Complete program on www.trentofestival.it
