30. Film Festival della Lessinia
Bosco Chiesanuova (Italia)
23 August - 1 September 2024

THE FOREST THAT HEALS

A forest bathing with Simona Boseggia, an environmental guide trained in TeFFIt - Forest Therapies in Italian Forests. A walk in the woods in which you will experience a series of sensory activities with the aim of increasing the level of biophilia, or the innate attraction that human beings have towards the natural element. Walking in the woods with awareness means giving importance to the therapeutic value of contact with nature thanks to its biodiversity and biocomplexity. You are asked to bring a towel with you.

FROM CAP TO CAP

The story of a plastic cap that falls to the ground in the mountains and reaches the sea where it settles at the bottom, and, together with hundreds of other caps, causes the suffocation of the ecosystem that generates more than 50% of the oxygen we breathe. And a new story: the cap becomes the eye of the fish sculptures created during the workshop, under the guidance of Massimo Marchiori, an artist who has been collecting plastic on beaches and river banks for years and reusing it to create sculptural lamps. A game to educate us about reducing the use of plastic and respecting the environment.

NOMADLAND

Chloé Zhao / 107 min / 2020 / United States

After losing her job and her husband, Fern sets off in her van towards the horizon of the great American West. She meets other nomads like her with whom she forms temporary communities, looks for seasonal jobs, and never stops travelling. It is the story of a life, of strength, hope and resilience, outside of social norms.

THE MISUNDERSTOOD MOUNTAIN

Among influencers, bloggers and testimonials, the mountains are experiencing a moment of hyper media exposure in which, due to misunderstandings, exploitation or bad faith, there is often a risk of conveying an erroneous, reductive and superficial image. Three academic members of the GISM (Italian Mountain Writers Group), taking up the theme proposed in the 2024 yearbook of the association entitled Raccontare la montagna (Telling about the Mountains), reflect on the way of recounting and perceiving the high lands, highlighting their constraints. Journalist Vittorio Zambaldo moderates the meeting.

APERITIF WITH THE DIRECTORS

Learn about the day’s film programme and meet the filmmakers present at the festival. At the end of the meeting there will be a tasting of products from small producers, with non- alcoholic cocktails and wines from Lessinia wineries. Organized by GAS (Social Purchasing Group) Lessinia.

NUBE

Diego Alonso  Sánchez de la Barquera Estrada, Christian  Arredondo Narvaez / 8 min / 2023 / France, Hungary, Mexico

After seeing a large black cloud dissolve painfully in a strong thunderstorm, a white cloud fears that its small one, also black, will dissolve in the same way. In trying to protect her, she goes so far as to overcome a massive mountain range, to no avail. However, a sacrifice can be the origin of hope and new life.

TOTS ELS MEUS COLORS

ALL MY COLOURS

Marc  Riba , Anna  Solanas / 5 min / 2023 / Spain

Sadly, the mother of a little girl has passed away, taking with her all the colours of life. Thanks to her animal friends, the little girl gradually recovers the joy of living and with it recolours her days and those of her father.

MOINEAUX

SPARROWS

Rémi Durin / 12 min / 2024 / Italian premiere / Belgium, France

A group of young Tibetan monks awaits the arrival of a wise elder who can reveal the secrets of life to them. A lively little monk, however, is distracted by a sparrow fluttering in the temple. Following him, he will embark on a lifelong journey during which he will learn the very essence of existence, only to be able to recount it, one day, to some child monks. However, a sparrow distracts one of them…

LA PÂQUERETTE-RACLETTE

THE CHEDDAR DAISY

Liselotte Macagno / 5 min / 2023 / Italian premiere / France

Every day tourists trek up and down from the top of Pic-O'don to see the amazing cheddar-daisy. Claude, guided by his friend the goat, also tries to climb the mountain, but he is a little late compared to the others and now that he is tired of all that coming and going, might not take things very well...

ATOMIC CHICKEN

Thibault Ermeneux, Lucie Lyfoung, Solène Polet, Capucine Prat, Morgane Siriex, Anna Uglova / 5 min / 2023 / Italian premiere / France

A quiet chicken coop wakes up in a small French village. But something unusual stands out in the background: a huge nuclear power plant. Soon, this imposing presence makes itself felt even in the monotonous life of the chickens, which is no longer so ordinary.

TÊTE EN L'AIR

HEAD IN THE CLOUDS

Rémi Durin / 10 min / 2023 / Belgium, France

Alphonse the squirrel is different from his peers. He has the soul of an artist, and instead of playing with others he prefers to climb alone to the top of the trees to admire and photograph clouds of all types. His adventurous spirit will lead him to discover new things and mysterious wonders.

KANOPOS IR PAČIŪŽOS

HOOFS ON SKATES

Ignas Meilūnas / 13 min / 2024 / Lithuania

A little pig happily skates on a frozen lake and invites his friend the cow to join him. Between vaults and slides, they have a lot of fun, but under the thin layer of ice there is a mysterious and disturbing shadow.

Gigliola Cinquetti
SOMETIMES YOU DREAM

Gigliola Cinquetti, an artist known and loved throughout the world, with millions of records sold and songs translated into eight languages, has Veronese roots and a special bond with Cerro Veronese. This has been her place of retreat and tranquility during the breaks of a frenetic career and between one long journey and another. In the book Sometimes you dream (Rizzoli, 2023) she dedicates affectionate and moving words to Lessinia. In a dialogue with Alessandro Anderloni, Cinquetti talks about her life, her career, and her particular relationship with Lessinia, which she considers her home and the place of her soul.

SOUND OF THE SPIRITS

Lin Hnin Aye / 63 min / 2023 / Italian premiere / Germany, Myanmar

In the village of Chaung Gyi, Myanmar, the Lisu people live in deep connection with nature, passing on ancient traditions. The mellifluous voice of shaman Byar Wu echoes through the mountains, where he ritually summons the lost souls of his community to prevent misfortune and illness, revealing an intangible world of souls that continue to persist. 

HUNNUN SOONDAN

Misha Voropaev / 55 min / 2023 / Italian premiere / Russian Federation, Georgia

Tuva, a mysterious land between vast prairies, mountains and dense taiga north of Mongolia, is the kingdom of the Huun-Huur-Tu group, guardians of traditional Tuva music. Despite the temptations of a comfortable life in Europe, success in Hollywood and the patronage of Arab sheikhs, the group prefers to return to their homeland to verify that the roots of the Tuvan musical tradition are solid and evolving.

1925 - 2025 A CENTURY OF EXPLORATIONS IN THE ABYSS

Francesco Sauro and Simone Grossule, speleologists and photographers of the dark, present the new 2025 calendar dedicated to the Veronese Caves (Bussinelli Editore), an initiative that coincides with the centenary of the first exploration of the abyss of Spluga della Preta, which took place in June 1925. Recounting the darkness of Lessinia and Baldo is an undertaking that speaks to us of a hidden world that is still largely unknown. During this presentation, the events that will take place in 2025 to celebrate this important anniversary will be announced.

PHALÈNE

Sarah-Anaïs  Desbenoit / 20 min / 2022 / France

Two twin sisters live in a suspended world, performing every gesture in perfect synchrony, according to their dual ritual. The dialogue of images and sounds breaks down the dimensions of earthly time and space. Immersed in a dreamlike atmosphere, the repetition of gestures merges their souls and their bodies with similar features, now and forever, crossing the mysterious darkness in the direction of the light.

UN PASTEUR

A SHEPHERD

Louis Hanquet / 71 min / 2024 / France

Félix is a young shepherd with a melancholy temperament who lives a life outside of time. From autumn to spring he works with his father to care for the family herd, while in summer he makes a long journey on foot to lead the animals to summer pastures in the French Pre-Alps of Ubaye. There, immersed in a rocky and inaccessible environment, he faces solitude and the presence of the wolf.