Competition
by Alessandro Stevanon
25’, Italy, 2010
“I thought I was a kite going upwind”. A portrait of the Valdaostan painter, Francesco Nex. Born “elsewhere”, on the verge of turning 90, he is still chasing his great dream.
by Titus Faschina
93’, Germany, Romania, 2010
A Transylvanian family: father, mother, and son, within the immensity of the Carpathian Moutains, run their own farm in an uncontaminated corner of Europe.
by Matti Bauer
44’, Germany, 2010
Italian premiere
Uschi will soon be a mother again. Her first child, Jakob, has already grown up among the farm animals that his mother cares for alone. Uschi is now forced to sell the dairy cows.
by Skule Eriksen
24’, Norway , 2009
Nærøyfjord, one of the narrowest fjords in western Norway, has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2005. This film without dialogue captures its atmosphere and tells its story.
by Katia Bernardi
52’, Italy, 2011
They were the “men of light”, the workers who in the 1950s built the monumental hydro-electric plants in the mountains as were such directors as Olmi and Risi who tell of them in their films.
by Nicolas Steiner
70’, Germany, 2011
Italian premiere
The traditional battle of the cows in the Alps is recounted from three points of view: the competing breeders, a curious journalist, and three teenagers more interested in finding girls than in the spectacle of muscles and dishorning.
by Selin Gunes
82’, France, Turkey, 2011
Italian premiere
After his father winds up in prison, the family of twelve-year-old Hasan becomes impoverished. His mother goes to work in the city. Left alone, the boy attempts to survive the winter by selling ayran.
by Rodion Ismailov
52’, Russia, Azerbaijan, 2010
Italian premiere
It takes one week of long, exhausting, walking to lead the flock to the meadow. A harsh land and a life of deprivation. The shepherds guide and protect their sheep and with them arrive up there, bone-weary.
by Mariana Cengel Solcanská
108’, Slovacchia, 2010
Italian premiere
This film narrates the legend of a scientist-monk who lived in a remote monastery in the mountains. His name was Cipriano, and he built a flying machine that he used to fly up to God.
by Grzegorz Zariczny
39’, Poland, 2010
Italian premiere
From May to October, in a meadowed corner of the Polish mountains, four men live with only their 400 sheep. They are of different ages and temperaments, but one topic unites them: women.
by Sylvia Rothe
83’, Germany, 2011
Italian premiere
In Mont, the house where Vreni and her three children live is a place where, thanks to various social projects, young people who have had problems with drugs, alcohol, and crime fi nd themselves anew by working on a farm.
by Dieter Auner
87’, Ireland, 2010
Italian premiere
A year with Albin Creta in the Transylvanian Mountains: the glance of a young shepherd toward a rural world which, since Romania’s entry into the EU, is transforming.
by Srdjan Sarenac
83’, France, 2010
Italian premiere
Three brothers and an old man are the inhabitants of the Serbian village of Zabrdje. There are no roads, no water and, naturally, no women. Zoran, the youngest of the three siblings, makes every effort to find a wife.
by Manuele Cecconello
94’, Italy, 2010
Andrea is sixteen when he leaves school and decides to become a nomadic shepherd in the Biella region, far from the collective rites of adolescence and noisy society.
by Piotr Złotorowicz
15’, Poland, 2010
Italian premiere
Marek and Janina are both coal workers. They spend every summer in the Bieszczady mountains. From dawn until dusk their day is filled with the smoke and dust from coal.
by Marcos Negrão, André Rangel
52’, Brasil, 2010
Climate change is drying up the rivers and transforming many valleys into deserts in the region of the Western Himalayas. And the old shepherd Sonam sees his life changing.
by Mahdi Moniri
72’, Iran, 2009
Italian premiere
Four seasons in the life of a young Galesh shepherd, who spends a great part of the year alone working in the meadows of northern Iran, even if he is just a child.
by Jean-Michel Bertrand
75’, France, 2010
“To become invisible, to stop existing…”. Hidden behind a rock or in his tent, with patience Jean-Michel Bertrand hunts wild animals with his video camera.
by Anne, Erik Lapied
78’, France, 2010
After an autumn of sun, in just one day a metre and a half of snow covers the Parco Nazionale del Gran Paradiso. It is a difficult winter for chamois, ibex, hares, eagles, and human beings.
by Buyanbadrakh Markhaakhuu
29’, Mongolia, 2010
Italian premiere
More than 7 million head of cattle perished from the cold in Mongolia during the winter of 2009/2010. Bayanbat and his family fight for the survivial of their animals.