Paolo Mainetti, president of Cai Imola, awarded the special “Città di Imola” prize, within the 72nd Trento Film Festival, to the documentary Marmolada – Mother rock by Cristiana Pecci and Matteo Maggi (Italy/2024/76′). The award was awarded directly in the theater last Friday 30 April during the screening of the winning work.
President Mainetti was accompanied by the lawyer Carlo Machirelli, member of the CAI of Imola and organizational coordinator of the Imola participation in the festival, by the member Roberto Paoletti, coordinator of the Award for many years and by Davide Bonzi, past-president of the CAI Imola.
The “Città di Imola” Award, which aims to valorise the Italian cinematographic or documentary work that has stood out most for its artistic and technical qualities as well as for the exaltation of the founding values of the CAI, the originality of the theme covered or of the story narrated, had the following motivation:
«It is the overwhelming view of the dizzying slabs of the southern face of the Marmolada that hosts the conquest of “Madre Roccia”, a route that has long been unsolved, unique and inaccessible. Four strong mountaineers and four generations compared, a perfect combination of technique, intuition, imagination, talent and irony. In addition to the pure and compelling sense of vertical adventure, the film then highlights the serious fragility of our natural heritage due to inexorable climate change, also thanks to the testimony of the refugee workers of Val Ombretta, a fundamental garrison and historical memory of the Queen of the Dolomites”.
The award jury, chaired by the South Tyrolean mountaineer Tamara Lunger, was composed of Mauro Bartoli (filmmaker from Imola), Giacomo Gambi (Councillor for culture of the Municipality of Imola), Giuseppe Savini (head of the culture office of the Cassa di Risparmio di Imola Foundation), Nicoletta Favaron (vice-president of the Trento Film Festival) and Carlo Machirelli (Cai Imola).
It is thanks to the collaborative relationship with the Municipality of Imola that the Imola section of the Italian Alpine Club was once again able to renew the tradition of supporting Italian cinematic artistic expression with a special award named after the city. The importance of the support of the Mayor Marco Panieri, the Councilor for Culture Giacomo Gambi and the president of the Cassa di Risparmio di Imola Foundation Rodolfo Ortolani should not be forgotten, moral contributions necessary to support the organization of this award, already awarded in the past on the occasion of the Venice Film Festival (among the winners, among others, Monicelli, Visconti, Olmi, Pasolini, Bellocchio, Pontecorvo, the Taviani brothers) and which in more recent years has found its own space within the Trento Film Festival, the first and oldest international cinema festival dedicated to the themes of mountains, adventure and exploration.
Now the appointment is for next Thursday 11 July, when the winning work will be screened at the Teatro Comunale dell’Osservanza, in via Venturini 18 in Imola, in the presence of the directors and local authorities.
