From 26 April to 6 May 2012 Trento will once again host the international mountain film festival. Following last year’s success, the sixtieth festival promises to be fantastic considering the events and the guests who will participate. The undisputed star: the mountain in all its forms. The 60th TrentoFilmfestival is preparing an explosive celebration for this special anniversary in 2012, packed with events and outstanding personalities, protagonists of the programme in the process of being fi...

ON THE WAY TOWARDS ANOTHER TRENTOFILMFESTIVAL From 28 April to 8 May 2011 Trento will host the festival of challenges. "How monotonous the face of the earth would be without the mountains" said Immanuel Kant. And how boring would the panorama of Italian cinema be without the TrentoFilmfestival, the oldest international festival of mountain films that on 31 January will begin its climb towards the 59th year.   "Don't look for a scaffolding to climb in the...

  On her TrentoFilmfestival debut last year, young French director Marianne Chaud won the Italian Alpine Club's Gold Gentian. This year, her second entry, Himalaya, le chemin du ciel, has won the top prize of all: the 58th Gran Premio "Città di Trento" - Gold Gentian for Best Film                                 ...

The City of Trento will be feasting from 29 april to 9 may 2010. For the TrentoFilmfestival, the oldest and most acclaimed international festival of films devoted to the mountains, directed by Maurizio Nichetti, the journey to the 58th edition begins.    Regulations and entry forms are downloadable from www.trentofestival.it. Significant news in Regulations 2010, are the  wording for some of the Prizes. In particular the three "silver gentians" wil...

After 12 years, an Italian director has been awarded the Golden Gentian - “Gran Premio Città di Trento”, the most prestigious prize awarded by the International Jury at the 55th TrentoFilmfestival. Among 40 films in the competition, the prize has been awarded to the Sicilian documentary-maker Stefano Savona for his film Primavera in Kurdistan, which deals with the war of the male and female PKK guerrillas in the Iraqi Kurdistan mountains, where they are defending the freedom and self-dete...