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First session: 16:00 Святилище грез / EL SANTUARIO DE LOS SUEÑOS 30’ Ukrainia/Ukraine 2009 Zuzendaria/Director: Sergey Volkokv Ekoizlea/Producer: Stanislav Pil’tyay. Art Way Production. This is a movie about a will. About freedom and value of a human life. About desire to be in harmony with the World and ability to recognize the present. About the height to which a man can climb. And about fall, which makes a man think about the meaning of everything and about his real strength. ![]()
SHOSHALA 38’ Frantzia/France 2011 Zuzendaria/Director: Yannick Boissenot Ekoizlea/Producer: Yannick Boissenot www.redpointmovie.fr
Last year (2010), during a bouldering trip, Elie Chevieux found a big wall in Baspa Valley. He decided to go back this year with Giovanni Quirici and Yannick Boissenot to open a new route on this virgin summit : “The Shoshala”. After 2 months in India, 3 weeks at the base camp with only 3 sunny days, they opened a 2,300-foot route with many pitches in the 7th degree and reached the summit, standing at 15,400 feet. This is the last expedition of Giovanni Quirici.![]()
MUNDO PERDIDO: ACOPAN TEPUY 41’ Euskadi/Basque Country 2011 Zuzendaria/Director: Adolfo Madinabeitia Ekoizlea/Producer: Bost Grupo de Gestión Audiovisual SL Spring 2010, Adolfo Madinabeitia travels to Venezuela. There he joins André Vacampenhoud, and together they travel to Yunek with the aim of climbing in the Acopan Tepuy. The face wall chosen, they start the climb… “ Right from the first stretch the face wall starts to collapse and doesn’t show any intentions of righting itself”. The documentary narrates the opening of the “Lost World” route which Adolfo and André opened in the Acopan Tepuy.![]()
Second session: 18:30 SIGNATURES 50’ Japonia-AEB / Japan-USA 2009 Zuzendaria/Director: Nick Waggoner Ekoizlea/Producer: Sweetgrass www.sweetgrass-productions.com From the orange and gold of fall to the pink cherry blossoms of spring, Signatures follows an entire winter deep in the backcountry Woods of Hokkaido, Japan. From deliciously deep January blower to April corn, we bring you a film about expresión and the art of riding on snow. Every turn has a personality, and every personality has its own unique style: the air, the smear, the spin, the grab, the laid-our curback carve.![]()
CONFERENCIA: "Speed of Life" - SEAN LEARY Bulimia has settled for good in the world of mountain climbing from the hand of such hungry characters as Sean Leary. Resident in Yosemite, this climber recently clocked up, together with Alex Honnold three routes of El Capitan in one day (The Nose, Salathé Wall and Lurking Fear), that’s 2,400 metres of climbing in 24 hours. Not content with devouring metres, they also do it at full speed: the record in The Nose accompanied by Dean Potter and new projects in mind to break old records in the valley. A real spectacle. ![]()
THE LONG HOPE 60’ Britainia Handia/UK 2011 Zuzendaria/Director: Paul Diffley Ekoizlea/Producer: Paul Diffley. Hot Aches Productions & Rare Breed Productions. www.hotaches.com / www.rarebreedproductions.co.uk St John’s Head on the island of Hoy is a wild and remote 1000-foot sea cliff. It was first climbed in 1970 by climber and poet Edwin Drummond. Drummond, together with Oliver Hill, took 7 days to climb the cliff, sleeping on ledges and in hammocks on the way. ![]()
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