Other Mountains
(On the River of Ice of Grossglockner)
by Matti Bauer
44’, Germany, 2009
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The Grossglockner glacier, although retracting from year to year, remains the largest in Austria. Millions of people go up each year to admire and study it, following the route of the spectacular Hochalpenstraße.
(Genius Loci - The Spirit of Place in South Tyrol)
by Duccio Canestrini, Luciano Stoffella
28’, Italy, 2010
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This is a research expedition to the Alto Adige region, in search of the spirit of this border location. For Italians, it is the extreme north of the peninsula, while for the Austrians it is the lower Tyrol.
(Nature that Cures)
by Michael Wachtler
45’, Italy, 2010
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Horsetail, fern, conifer, and lycopod are ancient plants with valuable medicinal properties. This is a voyage along the trail of the “herb witches” and “men of the forest”.
(The Life of Pier)
by Giovanni De Grandi, Paola Novarese
30’, Italy, 2010
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Since infancy, Pier Luigi has spent every summer with his cows and goats in the Alps. He is now 15 and loves his work, his animals, and his mountains, and has no intention of changing his way of life.
(Santina of Fusio)
by Mirto Storni
48’, Switzerland, 2009
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In the Maggia Valley, above Fusio, there is a garden of colours and sweet perfumes. It was created by Santina, who cultivates vegetables, flowers, and medicinal herbs, and lives on what her garden produces.
(Dawn Rose Up)
by Reza Majlesi
37’, Iran, 2009
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In the inaccessible territory of northern Iran, protected by the Alborz mountain range, a tribe still lives today according to ancient and mysterious traditions, jealously guarding its secrets.
by Vangelis Eftymiou
26’, Greece, 2009
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In the Grammos Mountains, in northeastern Greece, an old man walks in search of bees, creatures essential to the balance of nature, but threatened by pollution and increasingly rare.
by Holger Preusse
43’, Germany, 2010
CLIP
475 kilometres separate the cities of Manali and Leh in Ladakh. The impervious Himalayan passes and the altitude, that reaches 5000 metres, make this road one of the most dangerous in the world.