Other Mountains
by Giorgi Mrevlishvili
33’, Georgia, 2011
Italian premiere
In the 1920s, the geologist William Osgood Field visited Georgia, capturing photos and images on film: a voyage through time to discover how these mountains have changed.
by Federico Betta, Alessandro Genovese
28’, Italy, 2011
A documentary-investigation of the porphyry-extraction sector in the autonomous province of Trento that reveals the shadowy knots and contradictions in the largest industry in the region.
by Lucian e Nataša Muntean
50’, Serbia, 2011
Italian premiere
In the poor Ugandan village of Kilembe, at the foot of the Rwenzori Mountains, Mbambu performs in a theatre group and wants to become a tourist guide in order to earn money to study.
by Sandra Hebler
23’, Switzerland, 2010
Italian premiere
The nomadic Kirghiz do not know the art of making cheese. From Switzerland, Marlène Galletti travels to the mountains of Kirghizistan to teach them how to transform milk into cheese.
by Yan Chun Su
30’, USA, 2010
Italian premiere
The Lisu live amongst the mountains in the canyon of the Nu River, in Tibet. A lute maker, Ah-Cheng, carries on a tradition threatened by the musical impoverishment caused by the evangelist missionaries from the west.
by Marie-Catherine Theiler
10’, Switzerland, 2010
Italian premiere
What is a big cowbell doing on a road, in a meadow, in a pharmacy, in a school, and in many other workplaces? Sixty sites and sixty players.
by Murat Erün
77’, Turkey, 2010
Italian premiere
They climb the mountains that rise above the coast of the Black Sea to cut the hay: these farmers, with their luminous smiles, may be the last to continue this ancient tradition.
by Renata Medero Aguilar
53’, Italy, 2010
Hube and Irene have even set up a yurt next to their farm in the Alps where they have chosen to live. The story, through the seasons, of a life paced by the rhythms of nature.
by Gerhard Baur
43’, Germany, 2010
Italian premiere
Water is a curse and a blessing. It gives life and destroys it. At times, this is the fault of Man who alters the natural course of rivers like the Iller, in Allgäu, the protagonist of the devastating flood in 1999.