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

“Never, ever had the mountain shown itself to be so powerful. Never had we felt so small in the face of this strength. The mountain is our teacher, and that winter we were to receive our finest lesson in humility”. And so, Anne and Erik Lapied recount their adventure in the heart of the Gran Paradiso National Park, where they spent the better part of a year making a documentary about the king of those mountains: his highness, the ibex. A film within a film, that shows us the work that went into the making of this documentary beginning in the autumn, still warm and filled with animals, fruits, and colours, through the heart of the winter, when metres upon metres of snow slowly cover the mountains, making life difficult for the fifty inhabitants who still remain in this valley. Despite the challenges of filming in the snow, we are able to follow the movements of the ibex, chamois, hares, eagles and other small animals that are able to survive the rigid winter, which is only beginning. 

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  Anne Lapied

  Anne (1959) works together with Erik Lapied (1954). They began their career as photographers, and later became documentarists and, as they define themselves, “mountain filmmakers”. Their films deal with the mountain environment, animals, and the people who live there, and are filmed in France, but also in northern Europe, Africa, and the Himalayas. They won the Lessinia d’Oro in 2011 with Voyage au bout de l’hiver.

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  Erik Lapied

  Erik (1954) works together with Anne Lapied (1959). They began their career as photographers, and later became documentarists and, as they define themselves, “mountain filmmakers”. Their films deal with the mountain environment, animals, and the people who live there, and are filmed in France, but also in northern Europe, Africa, and the Himalayas. They won the Lessinia d’Oro in 2011 with Voyage au bout de l’hiver.