Cinema at the summits
From October 16-22, the Diablerets Film Festival, held in the Vaud Alps at the popular ski resort of the same name, will offer an opportunity to explore nature through three themes: mountains, exploits and environment. Originally reserved for mountain films only, the festival has enlarged its programme over the years, to move with the times.
Films and excerpts on extreme sports may be the main theme of the programmes aimed for film lovers in general, but the competition section is hosting over 20 documentary films aimed at a more cinephile audience.
While French films dominate – The Friend, made in the Iranian mountains by director-producer Sara Rastegar; Nyima et les porteurs by Philippe Lespinasse; Urgence au sommet (lit. “Emergency at the Summit”) by Régis Guarrigue; Un été silencieux (lit. “A Silent Summer”) by Stéphane Breton; and Une montagne de dangers by Laurent Cistac – Switzerland is also represented by Peter Ramseier’s Näkkälä (T & C Films, Zurich), a surprising encounter between an old Swiss man and the Finnish Sami tribe; and Harvest Moon by Stephan Siegrist, which recounts a climb to the summit of the Himalayas.
Richard Ladkani and Kief Davidson will present The Devil’s Miner (Germany/USA), the story of the exploitation of young boys in a Bolivian silver mine, and Hungarian director Zoltan Török pays homage to Iceland’s natural beauties in Parting Lands – An Icelandic Saga.
The awards ceremony for the Diables d’or and other awards will take place on September 22.
(Translated from French)
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