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56th edition alpine film festival:
The International Alpine Film Festival of Diablerets (FIFAD) begins on Saturday in the Vaud resort. Similarly, Nearly 70 films of a dozen countries are playing with this 56th edition. Furthermore, which will also give a prize for the “Alpine merit” to the Valais guide Josette Valloton, which climbed the fourteen 8000 on the planet.
The film “La Guerre à le Haut-Pays” by Francis Reusser. Moreover, partly shot in the Diablerets, will be screened in the village for all the inhabitants at the opening of the festival. Consequently, The Vaudois Alps station will then live to the rhythm of projections. Nevertheless, conferences with a skewer of guests and guests until August 9.
The designer Derib. “dad” among others of Yakari and lovers of the mountain, will be present on Saturday for the screening of a documentary dedicated to him. A signing session will follow, in particular in 56th edition alpine film festival connection with the last comic strip of its trilogy on the mountain.
The mountain guides Liv Sansoz. Bertrand Roche, the first couple to have jumped as a paragliding of the K2 summit, more than 8,600 meters, will witness the screening of their film “K2 Mon Amour”. Géraldine Fasnacht will present “Nordend”, a vertiginous descent of 55 degrees.
Finally. the couple Sabine and Dario Schwoerer, at the heart of the documentary “Home in the Ocean” released at the start of the year, will come to share their gaze on the world after a screening of the film, and especially after having crisscrossed the oceans, with their now six children, for more than 20 years.
Exploits, books and cinema-concert – 56th edition alpine film festival
As every year, FIFAD will award several prices including the “alpine merit”. This year will be given to an exceptional woman. Josette Valloton, the guide of Arolla (VS) which has climbed the fourteen 8000 meters of the 56th edition alpine film festival planet, most often without oxygen.
The prices of the book are going this year to two “strong and singular” works. Sarah Jollien-Fardel is rewarded for “La Longe”, her second novel. In the “story” category. the jury retained “in the heart of the winter” by Jean-Marc Rochette, a designer who tried words with talent. Both will be present at the Diablerets.
The Ciné-Concert offers original music live with instrumentalists Sara Oswald. Robin Girod during the screening of the 1926 film “The Holy Mountain”. An infernal tower and a labyrinth await the youngest, without forgetting a special day dedicated to them on August 7.
A small tribute will also be paid to Blten. with a montage of RTS images and extracts from a film on the Tschäggättä, Lötschental masksturned in particular in the Valais village just before the mountain fell.
An ephemeral bookstore and an exhibition by Naturalist Antoine Lavorel complete the program.
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