Valtournenche Centro Congressi
VITE D’ALTA QUOTA
with Kurt Diemberger, Patrick Gabarrou and Gerald Salmina
Two of the greatest exponents of the international mountaineering worlds in discussion with the audience of Cervino CineMountain. Our two guests will re ect on their lives and experiences in their own words with the help of lm footage. Joining them will be Gerald Salmina, one of the greatest contemporary directors of mountain cinema.
Kurt Diemberger, awarded the Piolet d’Or for lifetime achievement in 2013, was the rst person to climb Dhaulagiri and the only mountaineer, together with Hermann Buhl, to make the rst ascent on two eight-thousanders.
Patrick Gabarrou known as the Gab, was one of the most outstanding French climbers of the 80s and 90s, he has 300 rst ascents to his name, most of which were in the Monte Bianco range.
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Valtournenche Centro Congressi
DALL’ ALPINISMO EROICO
with Alessandro Filippini and Mauro Bartoli
Biographical paths and existential trajectories of some of the main protagonists of the history of Italian mountaineering. Some speak to the camera, like Reinhold Messner and Walter Bonatti and some are behind the camera, like Mario Fantin a lmmaker from Bologna, who lmed the Italian expedition to K2 in 1954.
Alessandro Filippini, sports journalist worked for «Tuttosport» and for «La Gazzetta dello Sport». He is a lmmaker and writer; among other works he authored “Walter Bonatti, il fratello che non sapevo di avere” together with Reinhold Messner.
Mauro Bartoli, director, screenwriter and producer, has made over twenty documentaries which have been shown at festivals, on tv or made for home video.
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proiezione dei film in concorso
FRATELLI SI DIVENTA. OMAGGIO A WALTER BONATTI, L’UOMO DEL MONTE BIANCO di Alessandro Filippini (Italia, 2021, 58’)
IL MONDO IN CAMERA. MARIO FANTIN IL CINEASTA DELL’AVVENTURA di Mauro Bartoli (Italia, 2022, 75’)
Valtournenche Centro Congressi
Doppio evento in collaborazione con MONTURA
Proiezione speciale del film
SARABANDA A FILO DI CIELO di Gian Luca Rossi e Luca Bich (Italia, 2022, 28’)
This film, set entirely amongst the natural surroundings of Valtournenche, tells the story of a memorable encounter between the musician Mario Brunello and the mountain climber Nives Meroi, both united by a love of mountains and beauty, and determined to bring the magic of Bach’s music to life against the amazing backdrop of the outline of Mt. Cervino.
Guest speaker, Don Paolo Papone, parish priest of Valtournenche, mountaineer, musician and co-protagonist of the film.
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LA LINEA NEL DESERTO
con Max Calderan
e Anteprima Internazionale del film:
INTO THE LOST DESERT di Christopher Cassel (Stati Uniti, 2021, 75’)
Max Calderan is the “king of the desert”: the extreme explorer who has crossed some of the most inhospitable and impassable environments in the world, surviving on his own, dependent solely on the supplies he carries, with no medical assistance and with sleeping rationed to micro cycles, all at temperatures that can exceed 58 °C. In 2020, he entered into the annals of exploration history by being the rst person to cross the world’s greatest sand desert il Rub’ al Khali in Saudi Arabia on foot, traversing 1,100 km of previously untouched sand to inaugurate the “Calderan Line”, now visible on geography maps of Arabia. In honour of this event, Max will speak to the audience at CCM about his experience of this legendary place, shrouded in mystery, while retracing his extraordinary journey to the limits of human endurance.