Vittoria Theater at 9 pm

Opening Ceremony

Opening of the XIII Film Festival della Lessinia 

Il postino di montagna

(The Mountain Postman)

by Adolfo Baruffi
based on a work by Dino Buzzati
15’, Italy, 1951

special event
In collaboration with the Museum of Fondazione Cineteca Italiana.
Shot at Colle Santa Lucia, at the foot of Mount Pelmo, the film paints a picture of a day in the life of a small village located in the Bellunese Dolomites. 

Das Gold des Himalaja - Nomadenleben in Ladakh

(Gold of the Himalayas - The Nomad Life in Ladakh)

by Thomas Wartmann
43’, Germany, 2006

competition
Life as lived at 4000 meters by the Chanpa nomads on the mountains of southwestern Ladakh.

O tempo dos bullós

(Chestnut season)

di Chus Domínguez
12’, Spagna Spain, 2005

competition
A visual and auditory refelection on “time-passage” and “time-metapassage” filmed on the Spanish mountains of the Caurel.

Schatten der Wüste - Salzkarawanen im Niger

(Shadows of the desert - Salt Caravans in Niger)

di Bettina Haasen
43’, Germania Germany, 2006

competition
Thirteen-year-old Djibrilla makes his first trip by salt caravan over 1000 kilometers of the Niger desert.