Trento Film Festival 2016

Once again this year Trento Film Festival presents numerous appealing events, with many guests from the world of mountain climbing, theworld of culture and cinema and fromthe show business. 108 films are on the agenda, 23 of whichin competition; more than 500 works were registered.

The “Guest country” is Chile, with an extensive programme of films and meetings, in collaboration with the Chilean Embassy in Italy and the National Museum of Mountains CAI-Turin.

Reinhold Messner is the protagonist of the first evening event (29^th April at 21.00, Santa Chiara Auditorium) entitled “South! The last trip”, (directed by Sandro Filippini), which represents the storyof the greatest adventure of all times: the Ernest Shackleton's Endurance Expedition in Antarctica.

Luca Mercalli and don Luigi Ciotti speak about “Environmental and ethical crisis: two sides of the same coin” (30^th April at 21.00, Santa Chiara Auditorium).

Neri Marcorè performs a show on the Patagonia and on the Tierra del Fuego entitled “The Edge of the World”. Besides his impossible interviews with Charles Darwin and Padre Alberto de Agostini, there will be the participation of Ferdinando Boero, Michele Lanzinger and Cristian Casarotto (3^rd May at 21.00, Santa Chiara Auditorium).

Marco Albino Ferrari brings to the stage the adventure of Bill Tilman in the Dolomites (4th May at 21.00, Fisarmonica Hall).

Two great evenings are dedicated to mountain climbing: “Nanga Parbat 2016” with Simone Moro and Tamara Lunger (5th May at 21.00. S. Chiara Auditorium); “Yesterday, today and… Ragni”, with the “Ragni of Lecco” Matteo Della Bordella, Luca Schiera, Matteo De Zaiacomo, Fabio Palma (6th May at 21.00, Social Theatre).

The Festival has also a programme for children entitled “Mountain trades park”. With the “Montagnalibri” fair, other exhibitions and symposia, the Festival offers high-quality events.

The Festival poster is the work of the illustrator Michele Tranquillini. The famous Chilean director Patricio Guzmán and the downhill world champion  Peter Fill are two of the guests of the film evenings.

Many anniversaries are celebrated this year: besides the 30th “Montagnalibri” fair, the 64th Festival commemorates the centenary of Shackleton's Endurance expedition, 70 years after the birth of the “Ragni of Lecco”, 60 years of the service “Safety and Rescue in the mountains” of the State Police, 60 years after the first climb to Mount Sarmineto in Chile, 400 years after the first crossing of Cape Horn, 250 years from the birth of Malthus and150 years since the word “ecology” has been coined. These anniversaries are to be discussed during the Festival.