The sixth day of the Festival will open with the daily morning column Acclimating to the light: starting from 7am, in the Church of Santa Maria del Suffragio, this small secular breviary will take place, made up of sounds, words and silences and promoted by the diocesan project Chieseacolori.
At 8.30, in the splendid setting of the Buonconsiglio Castle, the program Radicamento: having your feet on the ground in nature, an activity promoted by the Parco del Respiro di Fai della Paganella, is scheduled. Stefania Agostini, naturopath and expert in forest bathing, will guide us through some simple but effective practices to stimulate presence and rooting.
The appointment with the Story Climbing with Wafaa Amer and Marzia Bortolameotti of Donne di Montagna, at the Falesia Celva, is brought forward to 9.30, but is already sold out.
At 10.30, in the spaces of Radio Dolomiti in Piazza Duomo, the Butterfly Forest at MUSE will be presented: a social and conservation project. Chiara Steffanini will explain how raising butterflies has important ecological and economic impacts on the territory and on people. The MUSE butterflies come mainly from Costa Rica, where thanks to this practice deforestation is limited and the already degraded territory is reconverted into original forest.
At 11am, for Destination… Ireland, we highlight the Irish Festival in Piazza Cesare Battisti, organized by the dancers of the CLOVER dance school. An opportunity to discover the social dance of the Green Island and immerse yourself in the all-Irish tradition of dancing parties. Also accompanying the dances are GUESS AM, a very young Irish music ensemble. In case of bad weather, the event will be held at Parco dei Mestieri, the T4Future space in Piazza Fiera.
At 12.15, in the literary lounge of MontagnaLibri, the daily meeting with the director of the film program Mauro Gervasini and the directors guests at the festival – What do I see today? – to present the films of the day and guide the public to discover the screenings.
At 2pm it will be the turn of the Story Trekking entitled Urban Trekking: nature is in the city. An afternoon in the company of Luca Stefenelli (Montanamente – walking in the landscape), in search of urban biodiversity, walking along the streets of Trento to discover how nature is present in the city more than we imagine.
At 2.30 pm, in the spaces of HarpoLab, the Miyazaki Sensei masterclass will take place on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Heidi, born from the pen of the brilliant Hayao Miyazaki. Her latest film, The Boy and the Heron, released in Italy last January, was a box office hit and confirmed the Japanese artist as one of the great filmmakers of our time. Andrea Fontana recounts his work, from the beginning to the glorious titles of his personal “workshop”, Studio Ghibli.
At 4pm, in the literary salon of MontagnaLibri, the presentation of Holy Spirits and Heroes. Irish folk stories by Antonio Bibbò (Feltrinelli). Literary critic Fulvio Ferrari will be in conversation with the curator of the work – a collection of ancient stories from traditional Irish literature but still capable of enchanting the modern reader.
Also at 4pm, but in Piazza Cesare Battisti, the meeting – promoted by Viaggia con Carlo – entitled Beyond the K2 base camp: it is the story of the long journey to Pakistan undertaken by Gabriele Canu, videomaker, mountaineer and guide. In case of bad weather, the event will take place at Palazzo Roccabruna.
At 5.30 pm, in the MUSE conference room, appointment with Narrare la coexistence, organized by Pams Foundations Coexistence and Waiting for the Coexistence Festival. Authors, young artists and teachers will meet in a space suspended between reality and fantasy, to reflect on the crucial role of narrative art in understanding and improving our relationship with nature. Among the guests, Marco Niro, author of Il Predatore and some classes from the Depero High School of Arts in Rovereto, who “illustrated the coexistence” between man and nature.
Also at 5.30 pm, but in the literary salon of MontagnaLibri, Alessandro De Bertolini will present How a skinny ant across Asia (Montura Editing), the story of the 7,500 kilometers traveled by the Trentino explorer by bicycle, crossing Mongolia, the Gobi Desert, China, Tibet , Himalayas and Nepal. Dialogues with him include Fausto De Stefani and David Bellatalla.
At 6pm, for Destination… Ireland, Palazzo Roccabruna will be the scene of the meeting entitled Irishness and where to find it, in collaboration with the Fondazione Museo Storico del Trentino and the Caritro Foundation. Symbols, characters, songs and practices: the reflection on the ways in which a country enters the collective imagination will be the theme of the new issue of History Lab Magazine. But also of this meeting, with the participation of Francesco Filippi and Sara Zanatta.
For the column An hour to acclimatise, at 7pm in Piazza Battisti, the researchers Francesca Talamini, Alice Dal Gobbo and Anna Castiglione will talk with the journalist Fabio Deotto on the topic of political ecology and/in the mountains. Between activism, political ecology and psychology we will reflect on the reasons that hold back the ecological transition and on how to communicate, even through historical events, a revolution of this magnitude. In case of bad weather, the event will take place at the MontagnaLibri literary salon, in Piazza Duomo.
Highlights | Cinema program
Here are the films not to be missed on this sixth day of the Festival.
In Competition, we highlight The Great White Whale by Michael Dillon (Multisala Modena, Room 3, 9.15 pm), the extraordinary story, in Italian premiere, of two expeditions in the middle of the Southern Ocean, to climb a snow-capped volcano, 2,745 meters high, rising out of the sea like a great white whale. Let it Bärn by Hannes Tell (Supercinema Vittoria, 7pm) is a national premiere short film that tells the story of the genesis of a bouldering movement in Bern, the capital of Switzerland: a sort of “counterculture” that develops secretly with the intention not to limit climbing to the big international stages.
The Destination… Ireland section will host two of the three Cincontri scheduled today. The first with Mary and the midnight spirit by Enzo D’Alò (Multisala Modena, Room 2, 4.45 pm), one of the international masters of animation, who will talk about the genesis and development of his latest film, inspired by a story by the Irish writer Roddy Doyle. The second will be with the two Italian previews Für Bettina by Adrian Duncan and North Circular by Luke McManus (Multisala Modena, Sala 2, 7pm), with the two directors discussing their respective films and the Irish scenarios they are inspired by.
Among the special screenings, we remember another, highly anticipated appointment with the Cincontri column: Erri De Luca will in fact be present in the room during the national preview screening of the film in which he is the protagonist, The Experimental Age by Marco Zingaretti (Supercinema Vittoria, 8.45pm). De Luca and the director will reflect together with Fausto De Stefani on the reasons that pushed them to tell through this documentary the way in which the Neapolitan writer and climber is dealing with advancing age. Also for the Special Screenings section, Flavio Paolucci. From Guelmin to Biasca by Villi Hermann (Multisala Modena, Room 1, 3pm, in the presence of the director) is the Italian premiere story of the ephemeral artistic gesture conceived by the Swiss painter Flavio Paolucci: that is, creating a large mural work in his own studio, to then destroy it.
For the Terre Alte section, the program includes Carpenter by XelîGl Sehragerd, in national preview, and Oltre la Valle by Virginia Bellizzi (both at the Modena Multiplex, Room 2, 9.15 pm, in the presence of the directors). If the first testifies to the story of the Kurdish carpenter Hussein Mahmood, who in a remote mountainous region of Iran, searches for the best wood with which to create prosthetic legs intended for the victims of anti-personnel mines, the second is the portrait of a valley on the border between Italy and France, which has always been a land of transit, where the lives of migrants and those of reception center workers intersect.
For the Orizzonti vicini section, the Italian preview of Stanze by Simona Palmieri will be screened (Multisala Modena, Sala 3, 4.30 pm): having recently moved to Bolzano, a young woman, fascinated by a spot of color in a gray area of the city, begins the search for the man behind this “mirage”.
For the Alp&Ism section, we finally highlight the national preview of Monte Corno – It seemed like I was in the air directed by Luca Cococcetta (Multisala Modena, Room 3, 7pm). The film traces the story of Francesco De Marchi, who on 19 August 1573 was the first to climb the impervious and rocky peak of Corno Grande, on the Gran Sasso. The documentary reconstructs this climb through the words written in his memories by De Marchi himself and images of breathtaking scenery.
Complete program on www.trentofestival.it
