Mountaneeiring and exploration
1° giorno:
Chasing Ice di Jeff Orlowski – USA, 2011 – 75’ – v.o. con sottotitoli italiani
In spring 2007 James Balog, an important photographer for the “National Geographic” magazine decided to travel to the North Pole, with the scope of carrying out unprecedented photographic documentation: an archive of images clearly showing the damage caused by global warming. The result was an extraordinary adventure and one of the most read reports in the history of the magazine. Furthermore, the research was also the starting point for Extreme Ice Survey, the most important photographic project on glaciers ever conceived, to record the changes throughout the planet year after year.
2° giorno:
Hiver nomade di Manuel Von Stuerler – Svizzera, 2012 – 85’ – v.o. con sottotitoli italiani
Premio del Pubblico Lungometraggi al 61° Trento Film Festival 2013
Pascal, 53, and Carole, 28, are shepherds. In the month of November 2010, they embark on their long winter transhumance: four months during which they will have to cover 600 km in the Swiss-French region, accompanied by three donkeys, four dogs, and a eight hundred sheep. An exceptional adventure is about to begin: they brave the cold and the bad weather day in day out. This saga reveals a tough and exacting profession requiring constant improvisation and unflinching attention to nature, the animals and the cosmos. An odyssey through a region undergoing profound changes that render this kind of expedition more difficult every year, particularly when the grass for the sheep has to be found between villas, railroad tracks and industrial areas. An eventful journey with surprise encounters, moving reunions with farmer friends, nostalgic figures of country life that is shrinking away fast. Hiver nomade is an adventure film, a contemporary road movie, a reflection of our current world, which takes us back to our roots and our inner questions.
3° giorno:
The summit di Nick Ryan – Irlanda/UK 2012 – 98’
v.o. con sottotitoli italiani
Although K2 is only the second-highest peak in the world, it is renowned as the most dangerous and revered by mountaineers as their ultimate challenge. In August 2008, 18 of 24 climbers reached the summit of K2. Forty-eight hours later, 11 people were dead. What happened on that fateful day has never been resolved. Utilizing found footage, interviews with survivors, and seamlessly realistic reenactments, The Summit zigzags back and forth in time, interweaving multiple narrative threads and piecing together events, hoping to solve the mystery of what actually happened on that day—the deadliest in mountain-climbing history. At the heart of the mystery is the story of Ger McDonnell, one extraordinary man who chose to risk his own life to save others. With the help of breathtaking cinematography by Robbie Ryan and Stephen O’Reilly, director Nick Ryan creates a tension-filled, experiential film that will have viewers on the edge of their seats. The Summit pits Man against Mother Nature in her most majestic and terrifying extreme.
4° giorno:
Der Filmbringer di Martin Guggisberg – Svizzera, 2011 – 2′
A man dragging a film in the snow places it on reels mounted on trees. In this manner, the film rolls from reel to reel and can be watched at any given site with a film projector. The film bringer meanders through the different landscapes, serving as the bearer of cinema culture.
La dura dura di Josh Lowell – USA, 2012 – 28′ – v.o. con sottotitoli italiani a cura del Trento Film Festival
Chris Sharma has been the “king” of sport climbing for 15 years, and has created a mecca for hard routes near his home in Catalunya, Spain. Now, the Czech wunderkind, 19 year old Adam Ondra, has come to Sharma’s home turf to take the torch. Sharma and Ondra battle to establish the world’s first 5.15c, while Sasha DiGiulian and Daila Ojeda shred women’s standards with strong ascents of their own.
Honnold 3.0 di Josh Lowell e Peter Mortimer – USA, 2012 – 32’ – v.o. con sottotitoli italiani a cura del Trento Film Festival
Alex Honnold has become known as the boldest soloist of his generation. In this dangerous game, how does he balance pure ambition with self-preservation? From highball boulder first ascents to 8a free solos, from far-flung trad climbing adventures, to speed records on The Nose, Honnold wrestles with this question in preparation for his biggest adventure yet – the Yosemite Triple. In under 19 hours he climbs Mt. Watkins, El Cap, and Half Dome, 95% of it free solo.
5° giorno:
Exposed to dreams di Alessandro Filippini e Marianna Zanatta – Italia, 2012 – 24′ – v.o. italiana con sottotitoli inglesi
On Everest in Spring 2012, Simone Moro attempted a feat which had never been completed before: the concatenation of the highest mountain in the world with the nearby Lhotse. The film is the story of how and why the mountaineer from Bergamo, famous for his winter ascents of eight-thousanders, on this occasion decided to abandon the attempt when he was already at an altitude of over 7500 metres, when faced with an infinite queue of mountaineers heading towards the south face who refused to let him pass. It is also an unforgiving portrait of what has happened to mountaineering in the Himalayas in our times: is it still an adventure as it was in the years of the first expeditions, or nothing more than a new form of extreme tourism?
The waiting game di Emilio Previtali – Italia, 2013 – 41’ – v.o. inglese con sottotitoli italiani
Questions without answers, one after another. Sleepless nights, days of planning, study and research, always with the same question in mind. Where in the world is it still possible to find unexplored areas? Where is it possible to leave the first tracks in the snow? Where can you enjoy the greatest isolation? Is there a place where you can be yourself without compromises, away from everything and everyone, counting only on your own resources? If you are looking for such a place and you also want the best climbing there are not many possibilities left.