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

PREISTO-RISI

Take on the role of a hominid and explore the world! Preisto- Risi is the fun role-playing game of prehistory that will make you live the experience of human evolution, challenging your friends and discovering which species will be able to populate the greatest number of ecosystems and adapt most successfully. How to play? The rules are inspired by the most famous strategy game, Risk. The management is entrusted to the staff of the Fumane Cave.

AMBIN - LA ROCCIA E LA PIUMA

AMBIN - THE ROCK AND THE FEATHER

Fredo Valla / 63 min / 2023 / Italy

The Ambin Massif is an acrochore, a high-altitude desert between Italy and France. The camera explores fifteen peaks over three thousand metres and the little ice that has resisted global warming. This is a  vast mountain with a panorama of seasons and geological eras, a living memory of conflicts, explorations and linguistic diversity. It is a changing place with a thousand-year history and a symbol of human and environmental challenges.

PASCOLO VAGANTE

NOMADIC GRAZING

Bruno Zanzottera / 36 min / 2024 / Italy

"Where there are sheep there is a home." Fabio and Alice are two young shepherds from the Veneto who, with their child, live in a caravan for most of the year, following their thousand sheep in transhumance between the Po Valley and the Belluno Dolomites. In addition to taking care of the shearing, feeding and vaccination of the sheep, they narrate transhumance with passion, making their profession a lifestyle.

MAKING FILMS IN LESSINIA

Verona Green Movie Land brings together representatives of institutions and professionals from the film industry in a round table to reflect on the possible development of the Lessina as a film set. The participants reflect on the landscape, and the naturalistic, cultural, as well as logistical and infrastructure potential, and on the economic and promotional development opportunities that the Veronese mountains possess as a location for a cinema attentive to social values and sustainability. Moderated by Mariangela Bonfanti.

ORIENTWALKING

Orienteering is reaching the places indicated on a map in the shortest possible time, orienting yourself with a compass and map. The recreational-tourist form of orienteering is orientwalking, in which there is no chronometric control and you can reach the points marked on the map by walking calmly. It is a fun activity similar to a treasure hunt in which you can test your ability to read a map and use a compass. Our guide will be the Italian orienteering champion Walter Peraro. If available, we recommend you bring your own compass.

WILD SUMMON

Karni  Arieli , Saul  Freed / 15 min / 2023 / United Kingdom

From the waters of a mountain river emerges the exhausted body of a wild salmon, embodied by a woman. Its young try to escape predators and pollution, swimming for kilometres and kilometres, in a race for survival aimed at reaching the sea. Only those who are saved, once grown, will be able to return to the river to reproduce, becoming an essential part of the ecosystem.

ORGANISERET VILDSKAB

ORGANIZED WILDERNESS

Phie Ambo / 55 min / 2022 / Denmark

Immediately after Bangladesh, Denmark is the second most cultivated country in the world, but in the last 20 years 80% of its species have become extinct, hence the need for something to help get biodiversity back on track. Amid controversies and questions, the documentary follows the largest Danish rewilding project in Hammer Bakker, Northern Jutland.

AU 8ÈME JOUR

ON THE 8TH DAY

Agathe Sénéchal, Alicia Massez, Elise Debruyne, Flavie Carin, Théo Duhautois / 8 min / 2023 / France

Animals of every species, plants, mountains, rivers, deserts: all the things in the world are interconnected through coloured threads, to form a balance in which "tout se tient". But the balance of nature is precarious if you interfere, and if black arrives it overwhelms the colours. It took seven days to make everything perfect but only one, the eighth day, is needed to mark the end of life on the Planet.

Franco Michieli
THE INVISIBLE WAYS

Franco Michieli, among the most original Italian explorers of our time, has for decades opted to experiment with a radical, more genuine and authentic form of research, giving up maps, compasses, GPS and other support tools during his long and difficult journeys through mountains and places inhospitable on the planet. With Le vie invisibili (Ponte alle Grazie, 2024) Michieli accompanies us through his forty-year explorations among the Alps, the Andes, and the northern regions of the planet, in search of that special and profound relationship that technology sometimes hides from us. Beppe Muraro converses with the author.

AWARD CEREMONY

MARMOLADA 03.07.22

Giorgia Lorenzato, Manuel Zarpellon / 76 min / 2023 / Italy

The tragedy that occurred on the Marmolada on 3 July 2022 is seen and told through the eyes and voices of the rescuers and those who sprung into action, even at the risk of their own lives, to try to save as many lives as possible. Interviews and unpublished audiovisual material show the impotence of man in the face of the strength of the mountains and the generosity and professionalism of those who do their utmost every day to help those up there who are in difficulty.