Ferrino at Trento Film Festival 2020 with Carie and Kinnaur Himalaya

“Carie” and “Kinnaur Himalaya” two small productions of great sensitivity towards social and environmental issues related to the mountain world have been selected for this 2020 edition of the Trento Film Festival.

From August 20 to September 2 it will be possible to watch the screening of these two films to which Ferrino has chosen to bind itself for the quality of their cinematographic work, but above all for the importance of the themes dealt with.

“Two films in line with the principles of cultural respect, responsible tourism and protection of the territory that Ferrino has always promoted” says Anna Ferrino, Ceo. “We are proud to have supported and supported projects with a wide artistic profile and great cultural depth that address with seriousness and depth two themes to which we are very sensitive”.

On the one hand the story of a story close to us, in the Apuan Alps, where the excavation of marble has changed the shape of the mountains, transforming them but at the same time ensuring a source of income for the local population. On the other hand a story that finds locations at the foot of the largest mountains on Earth, in a territory where the arrival of modernity has upset the social balance.

Carie

By Achille Mauri

The perception of a place, the idea that we have of it and what emotions it arouses in us are closely related to the type of interaction between the parties. Carie is the discovery of a new dimension of climbing, but at the same time an excuse to stop at riflettere on what it means to maintain the balance between environmental protection and human development, creating a multi-voiced discussion on the issue.

“Carie” was born at the same time as a Ferrino – Rock Slave photo shoot, organized by Marzio Nardi together with Achille Mauri and Federico Ravassard at the Carrara marble quarries. A project that starts from climbing and extends to the relationship with a wounded territory, such as the Apuan Alps, mountains no longer mountains because destroyed by mining. This is where the idea of Marzio, Achille and Federico came from: not just to take photographs, but to give voice to a territory, a community. Above all, to study that relationship between mountains, verticality and obstinacy, which represent the soul of these places, somehow bringing us back to the soul of climbing.

Himalayan Kinnaur

By Emanuele Confortin

The Kinnaur is a tribal district in the Indian Himalayas, a place of spirits, exorcisms and great peaks where the cult of village oracles survives. After centuries of isolation, in recent decades the Kinnaur has had to face the challenges of a pressing modernity that has upset social equilibrium, replaced ancient agro-pastoral activities and attracted thousands of migrants. Apple monoculture is the most obvious transformation, but it may be short-lived due to climate change.

“Kinnaur Himalaya” is a project that combines ethnographic investigation, journalistic analysis and reporting. “The investigation takes place among the Kinnaura, a population threatened in its integrity by the water crisis caused by climate change and the seductions of one of the most vibrant economies on the planet,” explains the author, who lived in Kinnaur for more than six months, between 2003, 2005 and 2018.