The last day of the 72nd Trento Film Festival will open with Acclimatare alla luce, the small daily secular breviary promoted by the diocesan project Chieseacolori, which accompanied the awakening of the Festival for all ten days of the festival, with forty-five minutes spent between sounds, silences and words at the Church of Santa Maria del Suffragio, starting at 7.
At 8.30, we meet well-being in the park of Castello del Buonconsiglio through mindfulness with Massimiliano Corrà, forest bathing instructor and trainer. Sitting on the lawn and protected by the walls, the participants will observe, listen and let themselves be carried away by the sensations that nature will transmit to their bodies.
Also at 8.30, appointment with the last Story Trekking: Walking on the Path of Peace in Alpe Cimbra, an excursion from Luserna to Passo Vezzena, accompanied by the Va’ Sentiero team who has entirely remapped the 500 km of this highly valuable route historical and cultural.
At 10.30, in the spaces of Piazza Cesare Battisti, we will discover gin and its main botanicals with Igor Masella of Ginificio Microdistillery, a workshop on the creation of home-made gin through the use of real botanicals, with short maceration and filtration.
At 10.30, at Radio Dolomiti in Piazza Duomo, the presentation of the Nevermore project, with Sara Stemberger and Alessia Torre of the Bruno Kessler Foundation and Alessio Berto of the Autonomous Province of Trento. This is a scientific initiative that will develop models and tools to simulate and evaluate the impacts of climate change and create digital tools for better understanding by citizens and policy makers.
At 11am, in the conference room of Palazzo Benvenuti, the conference Between Heidi and Sofia Goggia with the participation of the scientific committee of L’Altra Montagna. A semi-serious meeting on the present and future of the highlands, analyzing the use of stereotypes and predefined models that satisfy the needs of tourism marketing: the arcadia of the happy alpine world or the space of skiing holidays and sporting prowess .
Also at 11, but in Piazza Cesare Battisti, the “Città di Trento” musical group will present a concert – The legends of the mountains – where some of the most significant legends linked to the world of the high lands will be told through music.
At 5pm, in the conference room of Palazzo Benvenuti, another interesting afternoon conference entitled The Mountain Cannot Wait. The geographer Marco Blatto, the mountain guides Michele Comi, Luca Vallata and Sergio Rosi – manager of the Passo Principe refuge – and the mountaineer and environmentalist Carlo Alberto Pinelli, co-founder of Mountain Wilderness, will discuss the challenges posed by the ongoing climate crisis and from the consequent transformation of the mountain into an object of consumption, which requires conscious and precise choices and behaviors.
At 5.30 pm, at Le Gallerie di Piedicastello, the meeting entitled Records is scheduled. Connecting links: this is a guided tour – organized by the Fondazione Museo Storico del Trentino and the Autonomous Province of Trento, in collaboration with the Fondazione Milano Cortina 2026 – to the large Records exhibition, hosted in the Galleria Nera, where the curators of the itinerary exhibition proposed an immersive and scenographic journey through the history of the Olympics and Olympism.
At 6pm, in the spaces of the Church of Santa Maria del Suffragio, the appointment – promoted as part of the Chieseacolori project – is with the conversation Climate suffering and human suffering on the relationship between climate and migration, with the participation of the Centro Astalli of Trento.
At 6.30pm, Le Garage Lab will host the last event of Before there were fairies – Astro Monte, the opportunity to admire the display of the banners created by the Le Fate collective and watch the story linked to the project.
At 7pm, for the column An hour to acclimatise in Piazza Cesare Battisti, the writer Sandro Campani, Alessandra Zagli of the LAMA agency, Andrea Barzagli of Fogliatonda and Marco Tamarri of the Unione Comuni Appennino Bolognese will discuss the topic of Voices from the Apennines, talking about the present and future of the Apennines, how to narrate them, how to plan the territory and how depopulation has affected the “backbone” of Italy.
Finally, the great closing event of the Festival, Roped for Solidarity, with two consecutive events at the Santa Chiara Auditorium in the company of famous names in mountaineering and the highlands, who will take turns on stage to tell the profound messages that the mountain is capable of conveying and supporting the solidarity project of the Rarahil School in Nepal, created by Fausto De Stefani. During the first part of the evening, starting from 8.30 pm, De Stefani himself, the Dolomiti Open mountaineers and the SOSAT Choir will discuss the theme Èpos. The epic of the mountains and its values. From 9.30pm, Mauro Corona will present his latest book, Le swings (Mondadori): a dialogue with the author, Simone Marchi.
In the afternoon at Cinema Modena and Supercinema Vittoria there will be reruns of all the films awarded in this 72nd edition.
Considering the great success of the two scheduled screenings, which were sold-out, a repeat of Marmolada 03.07.22 by Giorgia Lorenzato and Manuel Zarpellon (Italy/2023/76′) has been scheduled at 11.00 at the Supercinema Vittoria.
