Escape and travel the world between adventure and passion, between mountain and sea. In 2020 the International Festival of Adventure & Discovery Film has chosen to offer eleven French, Franco-Iranian and Polish films as official selection, including the screenings presented by Sylvain Shard will take place from April 20 to 23, in Val d'Isère.
Some highlight the beauty and the vastness of the mountains. Among them, "Limi" by Ulysse Lefebvre, which recounts the journey of a group of mountaineers between Nepal and Tibet, to show the beauty of the Himalayan mountain ranges. "Changabang and the mirrors of a rehearsal" directed by Jean-Pierre Tauvron also talks about this region and the challenges that encourage men to brave the dangers and curses of a mountain like the summit of Changabang, at 6864 meters above sea level . "Lost in Karakorum" by Jérémie Chenal returns to the 1500 km journey of two French paragliders and mountaineers in the Himalayas and the Karakorum massifs in order to climb the Spantik (7027 meters above sea level). Dariusz Załuski's documentary "Ostatnia Gora" focuses on the Polish winter expedition to K2 in 2018 and the rescue operation of French mountaineer Elisabeth Revol.
The selection for this 24th edition also highlights the extremes linked to the sea, its depths and its secrets. Thus, the work of Gil Kébaïli, "Planet Mediterranean" returns to an extraordinary challenge: four divers will live in a pressurized box of 5m² for ... 28 days at more than a hundred meters deep in the Mediterranean.
"The Red Lake Party", signed Vladimir Cellier, focused on the competition at the Red Lake imotski, in Croatia, in 2018, by three teams - two French and one Ukrainian -, notably with the challenge sinkhole 400 meters in diameter and 200 meters high. For its part, "Water Get No Enemy" evokes the first generation of surfers in Liberia.
The festival has also decided on films such as "Alchimie II" by Tong Viet Christophe-Boisselier who questions the combinations of activities of tomorrow and "The Mongol Horseman", by Hamid Sardar, including A story that takes place in the Darhat valley, in the north of Mongolia, traces the daily life of a rider who tracks down thieves of horses from nomadic tribes.
Finally, the last two films have as their theme education. "Nomades d'Iran" by Louis Meunier tells the daily life of a schoolteacher who accompanies nomadic shepherds in their transhumance and in the evening gives lessons to children. While "Daraya, the library under the bombs" by Delphine Minoui, focuses on four boys whose goal is to recover the maximum number of abandoned books recovered from abandoned places in Syria to create a library.
A literary prize
In addition to the various animations and exhibitions, the Festival also offers, in the Offs, the first Literary Adventure Prize. The four books, published between April 2019 and March 2020, will be presented by Sylvain Tesson and Jean Paul Shafran from La Libraire de Val d'Isère -, with the authors, during two literary meetings. The prize, awarded by a jury chaired by Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, will be announced at the closing ceremony.
International Adventure & Discovery Film Festival
April 20-23, 2020
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