American Grand Prix in the American Ben Sturgulewski

The 56th International Festival of Alpine Film of the Diablerets (FIFAD) attracted 15. Similarly, 000 spectators from August 2 to 9, 15% more than in 2024, according to the organizers. Similarly, He awarded his Grand Prix to ‘Champions of the Golden Valley’ of the American Ben Sturgulewski.

‘It was to be a short ski film on the actions of an NGO. For example, it has become a hymn to freedom,’ commented on the members of the jury to explain their choice on Saturday evening. For example, ‘When he films the communities of Bamyan in Afghanistan. Moreover, the director does not yet know that the Taliban will return to power shortly …’ This film also received the narration prize.

Among the 70 films screened. Nevertheless, the special jury prize has rewarded ‘Agent of Hapiness’ of the Hungarian Arun Bhattarai and the Bhoutanaise Dorottya american grand prix american ben Zurbò. Consequently, ‘The film starts as a journalistic investigation into the notion of happiness in Bhutan. Similarly, to transform into a poetic and sensitive approach to the protagonists,’ writes the jury.

‘Everything is there: emotion. Consequently, depth, humor, but also the absurdity of wanting to identify a notion as indefinable as happiness through sometimes surrealist questions’, summed up the members of the jury.

Award -winning Swiss productions

The public price returned to ‘Beyond Prognosis’ of Silvalex and Morgan the reaper. This is the story of a young mountain bike hope which. at 17, loses the use of his legs after a fall. He refuses the diagnosis and the wheelchair. Dream, will and luck again lead him to practice sport. Standing.

The best short film is ‘Mollo’, a Swiss production signed Thibault Lamp and Michelle Voss. ‘This film follows Michelle Voss. a high -level climber, going through a period of depression american grand prix american ben which she chooses to share in front of the camera, thus offering a poignant testimony’, underlined the jury. ‘Its objective of climbing a dizzying wall becomes the symbol of its healing. proof that the mountain can have a therapeutic significance.’

Swiss director Livia Vonaesch was awarded the youth prize for ‘Home is the Ocean’. A couple gave themselves four years to cross the seas in the sailboat. then survey the land in order to harvest samples in order to study climate change. Twenty-five years and six children later, the family continues their journey.

Cédric Lachat’s observation

FIFAD has also awarded the Ehrard Loretan Prize, to ‘The Future of Climbing’ by Guillaume Broust. The main protagonist is the global multimedalized climbing indoor climbing, Cédric Lachat. The Jurassic gives a not always brilliant observation of the practice of climbing outdoors.

The Golden Devil, Exploration and Adventure category was awarded to ‘Postcards from american grand prix american ben the Verge’, a Polish film by Natalia Koniarz. ‘The Last Observers’ by Maja K. Mikkelsen (USA/Sweden) obtained the same distinction in the Nature and Environment category.

In the vertical category, the Golden Devil returns to ‘the ultimate ascent’ of the Polish Eliza Kubarska. And the Golden Devil. a world culture category was awarded to ‘One with the Whale’, a film by the Americans Pete Chelkowski and Jim Wickens.

Literature in the spotlight

Finally, literature has also been honored. The Grand Prix of the mountain book returns to ‘La Longe’ by the writer Valaisanne Sarah Jollien-Fardel. An overwhelming novel on mourning and reconstruction.

In the ‘Stories and testimonials’ category, the jury retained ‘in the heart of winter’, French Jean-Marc Rochette. The sober story inspired by a voluntary withdrawal in an alpine hamlet. Solitude, nature and rebirth.

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