The 72nd edition of the Trento Film Festival continues vigorously. Tuesday 30 April, the fifth day of the event, will begin with «Acclimating to the light», a small daily secular breviary hosted every morning starting from 7 in the spaces of the Church of Santa Maria del Suffragio. A moment made of sounds, silences and words promoted as part of the Chieseacolori project.
Morning meetings
The very busy agenda of the festival offers a concert starting from 10.30 in the morning. The concert of the ensemble of the jazz department of the Bonporti Conservatory of Trento will be held in Piazza Cesare Battisti, on the occasion of International Jazz Day, curated by Maestro Domenico Santaniello, with an afternoon repeat at 3.30 pm. In case of bad weather, both performances will take place in the Conservatory Auditorium.
Also at 10.30, in the spaces of Le Garage Lab, there will be Breakfast with the fairies – Astro Monte, curated by Maria Chemello and the Le Fate collective. An opportunity to experiment with creation, writing and imagination exercises together, among dreams, prophecies and constellations connected to the mountain and its elements.
Another appointment at 10.30 will be the one in Piazza Duomo, in the spaces of Radio Dolomiti, with Cutting your bills: Sara Verones, from APRIE (Agency for Water Resources and Energy of the Autonomous Province of Trento) will guide us through strategies and small gestures newspapers capable of leading to global energy efficiency, also significantly impacting the cost of our bills.
At 11am, research carried out by the Tourism and Sports Service of the Autonomous Province of Trento in collaboration with Tsm | adm – Accademia della Montagna and the Association of Trentino refuge managers to try to understand the evolution undergone over time by the professional figure of the refugee. To discuss the topic in the meeting entitled The managers of Trentino refuges. Profile, skills and expectations will be Alessio Bertò from the Tourism and Sports Service of the Autonomous Province of Trento, Roberta Silva, president of the Association of Trentino refuge managers, Gianluca Cepollaro from Tsm| adm – Academy
della Montagna, Raffaele Alimonta, architect and manager of Rifugio Alimonta, Umberto Martini of the University of Trento and Maurizio Rossini of Trentino Marketing.
At 11.30 in Piazza Cesare Battisti, second meeting for the Outdoor Adventure column. The art of finding the path will be a dialogue between the English writer and explorer Tristan Gooley, the geographer Franco Michieli and the journalist Leonardo Bizzaro regarding the necessity or otherwise of
go to the other side of the world to find adventure. In case of bad weather, the event will take place in the conference room of Palazzo Benvenuti.
At 12.15pm, in the MontagnaLibri Literary Lounge, the daily appointment with What do I see today?: the director of the film program Mauro Gervasini and the guest directors at the festival will present the films of the day, to guide the public in discovering the screenings.
The afternoon meetings
After the first immersion in culture in the morning and the lunch break, the event starts again at 3pm, at the Piedicastello Galleries, with the meeting with Cinzia Angelini entitled Animation and inclusion. Designed in collaboration with Tsm | adm – Accademia della Montagna and Fondazione Museo Storico del Trentino, the event intends to stimulate reflection on the ways in which animation can promote inclusion, both during the processes of cultural production and in the communication of messages capable of giving value to the people.
At 4pm, in the spaces of the MontagnaLibri Literary Lounge, Controstoria dell’alpinismo by Andrea Zannini (Edizioni Laterza and CAI) will be presented. The author, in dialogue with Fabrizio Torchio, will explain how mountaineering finds its roots in culture and society
alpine, dismantling the cliché that sees frequenting the Alps as the fruit of a rationalist discovery.
At 4.30 pm, in Piazza Cesare Battisti, for the International Jazz Day, it will be the turn of the Meeting Point Quintet – Giulio Ferraro on trumpet, Thomas Badocchi on tenor sax, Enrico Giorgetti on piano, Luca Porcelluzzi on double bass and Daniel Scarian on drums – engaged in a concert of
original compositions that draw inspiration from the languages of the most modern jazz, exploring its possibilities and often going beyond its boundaries, in search of a balance between composition and free improvisation. In case of bad weather, the concert will take place in the Conservatory Auditorium.
Also at 4.30 pm, but in the MUSE conference room, the meeting entitled Mongolia and Siberia: the thousand faces
of the shaman. Speaker was David Bellatalla, anthropologist from the University of Ulaanbaatar and cultural ambassador of the Republic of Mongolia, who has investigated the topic for decades and is one of the leading experts on shamanism at an international level.
Starting from 5pm, in the Alpine Space SAT, the double meeting entitled Designing at high altitude. Interior with a view. Refuges and bivouacs constitute exceptional mountain garrisons: with their architecture and their service they mark the landscape, defining places of welcome and shelter. For this peculiarity, their design requires care and attention, even more so in a perspective marked by unequivocal environmental transformations and constantly changing attendance. In the first part of the afternoon, Luca Gibello, Roberto Dini, Angelo Longo, Mara Nemela, Alberto Winterle and Andrea Fregoni will discuss the topic Forms, functionality and values
of the alpine refuge. At 8pm, in a talk entitled Sobrie hospitality, Luca Gibello and Roberto Dini will reflect on the issue of hospitality at altitude.
At 5.30 pm, in the literary salon of MontagnaLibri, Matteo Righetto will present his latest work, The Wild Path (Feltrinelli), in dialogue with Claudia Gelmi. A novel in which Tina Thaler, the most beloved character from the author’s previous work, The Room of Apples, returns, immersed in a Dolomite setting.
Also at 5.30 pm but at the Parco dei Mestieri – the T4Future space in Piazza Fiera – the Irish Festival will begin with CLOVER (School of Irish dances) and GUESS AM. An opportunity, promoted by the Caritro Foundation, to discover the social dances of the Green Island, with live traditional music.
At 7pm, at the Church of Santa Maria del Suffragio and as part of the diocesan project Chieseacolori, the meeting with Mauro Neri, author of Founded on rocks, edited by ViTrenD: 25 different stories of hermitages and hermits, whose charm silent still arouses a strong appeal.
For the column An hour to acclimatise, again at 7pm but in Piazza Battisti, the explorer Lorenzo Barone, the climbers Eline Le Menestrel and Eleonora Delnevo and the photographer Elisa Bessega will discuss the topic of cycling in the climate crisis. Can sport be a political act?
From the use of the bicycle to reach Patagonia or the North Pole, to Lena Müller’s Eco-Points, a reflection on two wheels as a means of visiting the mountains while paying attention to the environmental needs of the present. In case of bad weather, the event will be held at Palazzo Roccabruna.
Starting from 7pm, in Piazza Duomo (but in case of bad weather at the Conservatory Auditorium), the In a Sentimental Mood concert by the Bonporti Jazz Orchestra is scheduled, on the occasion of the International Jazz Day, followed at 8.30pm by that of ensemble of the popular music department of the conservatory, directed by Maestro Stefano Pisetta.
At 9pm, at the Teatro Sociale, the evening event with protagonists Alex Bellini, Alessandro De Bertolini and Lorenzo Barone, in collaboration with Montura. The three explorers, in conversation with the mountaineer Tamara Lunger, will tell the public the reasons for their recent adventures in
cycling, skiing and kayaking. Journeys to extreme, fascinating and difficult lands, in which what matters most is knowing the world, with the aim of ultimately becoming explorers of oneself.
Cinema program
For the very passionate people awaiting the day’s screenings, we remind you that today there will be: in Competition, Marmolada – Madre Roccia by Matteo Maggi and Cristiana Pecci (Supercinema Vittoria, 6.45 pm, in the presence of the directors and protagonists), a film presented as an international premiere which follows the exciting feat of Matteo della Bordella, Maurizio Giordani, Massimo Faletti and Iris Bielli on the south face of the Marmolada, the legendary “Queen of the Dolomites”. Also in Competition, A vague dread seems to silence the tongue by Edward Kihn (Multisala Modena, Room 2, 2 hours), presented as an Italian premiere, which tells the story of a secret society of Irish immigrants, the Molly Maguires, who, in 1860s and 1870s, rocked a Pennsylvania mining region through a series of brutal murders.
For the Destination… Ireland section, Once a Beige Day by Seàn Mullan (Multisala Modena, Room 3, 7pm, in the presence of the director) is a short film whose setting becomes the protagonist: an empty room to be painted, full of memories, is suddenly violated
by the presence of someone.
Two unmissable special screenings today. Ambin – The Rock and the Feather by Fredo Valla (Multisala Modena, Room 2, 3pm, in the presence of the director) is a film dedicated to the Ambin Massif, on the border between Italy and France, which unites on its slopes a multiplicity of
very different cultures, traditions, languages and people but with common roots. Domus de Janas by Myriam Raccah (Multisala Modena, Sala 2, 5pm, in the presence of the director) is instead the story of everyday life in a town in the Sardinian hinterland, where drought reigns supreme and ancient legends re-emerge from memory, evoking characters and places suspended between two worlds. There will also be two previews: the horror Cuckoo by Tilman Singer (Multisala Modena, Room 3, 11.30 pm), a film presented as a national preview in which seventeen-year-old Gretchen leaves the
his home in the United States to go and live with his father in the German Alps, in a quiet holiday paradise where something doesn’t seem right, and Soudain Seuls by Thomas Bidegain (Supercinema Vittoria, 9pm), focused on sailing adventures around
world of Vincent and Laura, intending to give new life to their relationship. However, they will be caught by a violent storm and forced to take refuge in an abandoned port for the night.
For the Terre Alte section, in Italian preview, Jacques by Lysandre Leduc-Boudreau (Multisala Modena, Room 1, 6.45 pm, in the presence of the director) is a tribute to an authentic monument of Nordic exploration: for over forty years, in fact , Jacques Duhoux lived alone in the Uapishka mountains, in Groulx, carrying out his own missions.
For Orizzonti Vicini, So is the vine. Endrizzi, the stories behind the story of Katia Bernardi (Multisala Modena, Room 3, 5pm, in the presence of the director and the protagonists) is an intimate look into the events of one of the most historic families of Italian wine.
Finally, Alp&Ism offers a national preview of Via Sedna by Ramona Waldner (who will be present in the room) and Alexander Brugger (Multisala Modena, Room 1, 8.45 pm), a documentary that tells the story of Caro North and Marta Guemes, intent on sailing, accompanied by an all-female team, from France to Greenland, where the two climbers will attempt the first climb of an unclimbed big wall. Also for Alp&Ism, today’s Cincontri: Keep it burning by Guillaume Broust (Supercinema Vittoria, 5pm), presented as an Italian premiere. Edu Marin, protagonist of the docufilm, will tell the audience in the room about one of the most important mountaineering feats of recent years: the solo ascent of the Nameless Tower in the Trango Towers, in Pakistan, along a route freed by the Huber brothers.
