The CAI talks about 'Mountain Therapy' at the Trento film festival

The mountain as a therapeutic tool for addictions but also mental disorders:CAI will talk about it with the 'Mountain Therapy' event scheduled for May 4th during the Trento film festival

TRENTO – The Italian Alpine Club, on the occasion of the next Trento Film Festival, will present the healing potential of the mountains, with an event entitled “Mountain therapy”, scheduled for Saturday 4 May at 5pm at the Philharmonic Hall.The event includes the screening of the film "Changes in altitude” by Alessandro Beltrame, who talks about three of the projects active in Italy for frequenting the mountains for rehabilitative-therapeutic purposes:“From step to step”, curated by Asst Spedali Civili Brescia with Cai Sem Milano;“Diabtrekking”, organized by the Jada Association, Cuneo hospital and Regina Margherita hospital in Turin with CAI Cuneo;“Let's contaminate ourselves”, curated by the Italian Association of People with Down's Down syndrome, Potenza section with CAI Potenza.The protagonists of these projects will be present in the room (CAI volunteers, professional operators and patients) who, with their testimonies, will tell how mountain environments are fertile ground for personal transformation.

THE MOUNTAIN AS A THERAPEUTIC TOOL

Since the 1990s, CAI has joined forces with institutions, healthcare companies and associations for projects they use the mountain as a therapeutic tool to address mental ailments, addictions, physical and cognitive disabilities and specific diseases.The CAI, with over 150 Sections involved who provide qualified support, has today extended its support also to social risk groups.This biopsycho-social approach shifts the focus from illness to health promotion, counteracting isolation and emotional apathy.Speakers will be the general president of the CAI Antonio Montani, Beltrame, Ornella Giordana, member of the operational support structure for solidarity in mountain therapy and adapted hiking and Marco Peruffo, mountaineer with type 1 diabetes.

THE DOCUMENTARY ON THE GREAT HORN SHOT AT 3,000 METERS

The Trento Film Festival will then host thenational preview of the documentary “Monte Corno – It seemed that I was in the air” (Italy, 2024, 72 minutes), directed by Luca Cococcetta and produced by Visioni Future.Cai is the main sponsor of the film, which also sees the contribution of the Directorate General for Cinema and Audiovisual.450 years later, the film faithfully retraces the history and the adventurous climb of 19 August 1573, which brought Francesco De Marchi to the rocky peak of Corno Grande, in the Gran Sasso massif, achieving an epic feat for its time:reach a peak out of curiosity to climb what he believed to be the highest mountain in Italy.Intertwined with the fictional reconstruction, the film contains a documentary story, in which experts and connoisseurs of the enterprise, such as Vincenzo Brancadoro, the historians Stefano Ardito and Roberto Mantovani, the mountaineer Hervé Barmasse and the geologist Mario Tozzi, talk about the historical figure of De Marchi directly from the places of climbing to the summit of Gran Sasso.

The film was selected in the “ALP&ISM” program of the Trento Film Festival, a section dedicated to the most spectacular mountaineering, climbing and adventure films, and will compete for the public award for the best Rotari mountaineering film. The official presentation is scheduled for Wednesday 1 May at 7pm at the Modena Multiplex.The director Luca Cococcetta and the actor Massimo Poggio, interpreter of De Marchi, will intervene and, together with the crew, he shot the entire film at almost 3,000 meters above sea level, without resorting to stunt doubles or scenes shot in the studio.“Monte Corno” will also be screened Saturday 4 May at 3pm, again at the Modena Multiplex.

Italian preview also for “Marmolada 03.07.22” (Italy, 2023, 76 minutes), documentary written and directed by Giorgia Lorenzato and Manuel Zarpellon and produced by Cineblend with the contribution of Cai.The film hosts the choral tale of rescuers of the enormous collapse which, along the slopes of the Marmolada, from Punta Penia to Fedaia, overwhelmed several people, killing 11, in July 2022.The work brings together interviews, unpublished archive material and current footage, in a single narrative language that conveys man's impotence in the face of the strength of a wounded and distorted nature.“Marmolada 03.07.22” is part of the “Orizzonti neizi” program of the festival, dedicated to authors, productions, stories and protagonists of Trentino Alto Adige.Screenings on Monday 29 April at 7pm at the Supercinema Vittoria and Friday 3 May at 9.15pm at the Modena multiplex.

There will be two books from the Italian Alpine Club's editorial production that will have their own space at the Trento Film Festival:on Saturday 27 April at 10.30, at the MontagnaLibri literary salon in Piazza Duomo, Jacopo Merizzi will present his "Life in the eyes", coming out at the end of April for the series "Personages” published by CAI.Tuesday 30 April at 4pm, again at the MontagnaLibri literary lounge in Piazza Duomo, will be the turn of the book "Controstoria dell'alpinismo" by Andrea Zannini, published by Editori Laterza and Cai.