Cinema and mountains: the winning combination

From the Dolomites to the Matterhorn via Trento: cinema and the mountains have created an indissoluble bond that is getting stronger and stronger, with new ideas, new tricks to tackle the pandemic (see streaming events) and new dreams. The latest was that of a great protagonist of the big screen, Carlo Verdone: «A film about Cortina? Why not, why not. I would like to come and shoot something, the area is too beautiful, it deserves it. But not a comic thing, it would be too banal “The Roman actor and director said this to” Una Montagna di Libri. “, A literary review held in the Ampezzo valley, to which he intervened to present his book” La carzza of memory “.
Meanwhile, right here on March 22, the film festival “Cortinametraggio” will start, now in its sixteenth edition, which will take place in a hybrid form and will see the shorts and directors of the competition in streaming on mymovies.it and meetings with the authors on Canaleeuropa.tv. The jurors and guests will instead be in attendance in compliance with the anti Covid rules.
Meanwhile, Trento is also preparing for the new edition of the Film Festival which, barring last-minute surprises, will be staged from 30 April to 9 May. The host country, namely Greenland, has been announced: the Arctic nation is a topical issue, given the climatic emergencies and the related environmental, economic and geopolitical consequences. A fascinating place, in some ways still mysterious, to be discovered through the festival films. Like the docu-film “The Red House” by Francesco Catarinolo: the film tells the life and work of Robert Peroni, the well-known South Tyrolean explorer and writer who, after several expeditions to Greenland, has chosen to live in the remote location of Tasiilaq, where he opened a reception center for tourists, which has become a resource and point of reference also for the local community.

«It is precisely climate change that imposes a new and different relationship between man and the environment – said the president of the Trento Film Festival Mauro Leveghi -. A new relationship that characterizes the economic and social restart of the post-pandemic, in the sign of real change ».
There is also talk of cinema in the shadow of the Matterhorn, where registrations for the highest mountain film festival in the world have started: the Cervino CineMountain will be staged from 31 July to 8 August between Breuil-Cervinia and Valtournenche. Also in this edition (we are at the twenty-fourth) the Oscar of mountain cinema will be awarded, or the “Grand Prix des Festivals – Conseil de la Vallée”, selected among the winning films of the most important international festivals belonging to the circuit of International Alliance for Mountain Film: from Trento to Kathmandu, passing through the most important festivals around the world.