Other Mountains
by Ugo Slomp
35’, Betacam SP, Italy, 1995/2007
Sheep, pigs, donkeys, mules, frogs, even mice: it’s all Albino Brisaghetto cares about, as he kills to quell his terrible hunger.
(The Guards of Mount Ararat)
by Martin Thoma
44’, Digital Betacam, Germany, 2007
12-year-old Erhan wants to become an alpine guide of the Ararat, the only way he can guarantee himself a future in the place where, according to legend, Noah’s ark landed.
(Olga and Time)
by Manuele Cecconello
56’, Mini DV, Italy, 2007
Slowness, waiting, and silence are everything to Olga, the solitary icon of the Biellese shepards.
(Postman of the Himalaya)
di Ines Possemeyer
52’, Digital Betacam, Germany, 2007
Dolmar, 64 years old, delivers mail where cars cannot go to the most isolated villages located in the high mountains of the Indian region of the Himalayas.
(Memories Re-sewn)
by Anja Medved e Nadja Velušček
47’, Betacam SP, Italy, 2006
Short stories reflecting on the general history of the borderland between Italy and Yugoslavia which experienced dramatic depopulation after 1947.
(All the Saints and Drunken Horsemen)
by Tomas Leach
53’, Digital Betacam, Switzerland, 2007
Every year the inhabitants of the city of Todos Sanctos, Guatemala take part in a drunken horse race. For the first time in his life, Roman prepares for this event.