Edition 2025
Winners
Genziana d’Oro Miglior Film - Gran Premio “Città di Trento”
Donde los árboles dan carne Alexis Franco
With an intimate yet powerful gaze, Alexis Franco takes us deep into the heart of the Argentine Pampa, where different generations face the consequences of desertification and the dissolution of a world that once seemed unchangeable. The director crafts a film suspended between fiction and reality: a humanist neo-western that deconstructs and reimagines the masculine myth of the gaucho, restoring dignity and fragility to a community that still resists without rhetoric. The narrative unfolds through daily gestures and arid landscapes, evoking a silent epic that questions our relationship with the land and with time.
Genziana d’Oro Miglior Film di Alpinismo - Premio del Club Alpino Italiano
Adra Emma Crome
Adra brings us on a wild ride through the history, culture and community of North Wales, one of the worlds most vibrant epicentres for rock climbing. It brings out the essence, the heart and soul of climbing, from its rebellious spirit to how it brings people together and gives them a sense of belonging. We get pulled into the diverse landscape of North Wales and this film makes us want to go there and possibly share a rope with some of the funky characters. But most importantly it reminds us that even though ropes and carabiners can be useful for climbing, you should never forget to bring the style.
Genziana d’Oro Miglior Film di Esplorazione o Avventura - Premio “Città di Bolzano”
All The Mountains Give Arash Rakhsha
Not everyone has the luxury of doing difficult journeys for pleasure alone. We salute the film’s director, cinematographer and editor, Arash Rakhsha, who early in life was forced by circumstance to be a smuggler himself, but who then taught himself filmmaking skills of a very high level and returned over six years to film the harsh life of his smuggler friends. He shares their dangerous journeys and intimately portrays their family life and their fading dreams for a better future. We admire the filmmaker’s multi-skilled contribution, and acknowledge the haunting music score, which he, as both director and editor, incorporated so well.
Genziana d’Argento – Miglior Contributo Tecnico-Artistico
Perfectly a Strangeness Alison McAlpine
Through an original use of time-lapse and the hyperrealist cinematography, Perfectly a Strangeness transforms the Chilean desert into a suspended landscape, where the high definition of the image feeds a profound sense of wonder in the face of the cosmos. The director Alison McAlpine and the cinematographer Nicolas Canniccioni create a sensory experience that is both ironic and moving: a short, dialogue-free film, visually stunning, paying tribute to other iconic four-legged protagonists of cinema—such as those immortalized by Bresson and Skolimowski—offering a poetic reflection on wonder and otherness.
Genziana d’Argento - Miglior Cortometraggio
Anngeerdardardor Christoffer Rizvanovic Stenbakken
For its rare ability to intertwine narrative delicacy, visual strength, and authenticity, telling, with a pure and sincere gaze, the isolation and longing for connection felt by those who see themselves as different. An intimate story that becomes universal.
Premio della Giuria
The Wolves Always Come at Night Gabrielle Brady
From the very beginning, director Gabrielle Brady constructs a hypnotic vision that immerses us in the daily life of a Mongolian family. With great sensitivity and a close, humanistic gaze, she crafts a hybrid film that weaves together fictional scenes created in collaboration with the protagonists. With a steady and profound narrative rhythm, Brady alternates between moments of the family's daily work—such as herding sheep—and instances of intimate familial joy. She does not shy away from blending lighthearted happiness with the weight of drama, as seen when Davaasuren, the father, discovers that a sandstorm has killed much of his flock, or when he is forced to sell his beloved horse in order to move to the city. The character wrestles internally with the uncertainty of the future and his deep attachment to his surroundings, and as viewers, we accompany him on that emotional journey. The strangeness of this new and hostile urban environment allows the director to introduce a poetic note: the dreamlike return of the cherished horse in a symbolic sequence that suggests a glimmer of hope amid the displacement.
Premio T4Future
Tête en l'air Rémi Durin
Tête en l’air impressed us not only with its well-finished graphics, but also with its message, inviting us to observe even the smallest details that others ignore. It is a short film suitable for all ages: children will be engaged by a story that is intriguing in itself, while adults can grasp the deeper hidden meanings and appreciate it even more."
PREMIO “MARIO BELLO”
On The Blunt End Joseph Walker
Our world takes concrete form in many ways: there are many signs that must coexist. It is up to us to bind them together into a single rope, flexible and at the same time resistant. An intimate film supported by an attentive visual narrative, it is universal in terms of its values of sharing, acceptance and the ability to embrace different life scenarios without abandoning one’s passions and the people one loves.
PREMIO CINEMAMORE
Svalbard: Silent Games Francesco Biscaglia
In the tragic context of a war that divides peoples and communities, the film recounts a humanity that does not surrender and tries to overcome divisions, even in a remote area such as Svalbard. In the jury's opinion, the young director's work best embodies the spirit of the three festivals (RAM, RT and TFF), linking them with an imaginary common thread: it reconstructs memories with archive footage and investigates the religious-symbolic aspect through significant images, without neglecting exploration of the place.
Premio T4Future - Menzione speciale
Mountain Roots Carrie McCarthy, Mark Pedri
To the documentary most closely aligned with the theme of the festival. We were struck by the sensitivity with which it tells the story of the area and by an external perspective that succeeds in enhancing it: it is great to see someone come from outside and appreciate so deeply what we have to offer."
Premio Studenti Università di Trento, Bolzano e Innsbruck - Menzione speciale
O Jardim em Movimento Inês Lima
Premio Studenti Università di Trento, Bolzano e Innsbruck
Conigli al Cimitero Filippo Maria Pontiggia
The film stands out for its ability to tackle a topical issue with stratified sensitivity, offering the audience multiple levels of interpretation. This short work is striking thanks to the elegant choices in terms of direction choices, framing and editing. The strength of the film also lies in its close connection with the local area. Pontiggia shows concrete and consistent commitment in the implementation of a project combining aesthetics, content and context.
Premio Ritter - Emozione in Montagna
Painting the Mountains Pierre Cadot
This film showcases the extraordinary vision of a group of skiers (Aurélien Lardy, Vivian Bruchez and Jules Socié) engaged in a fascinating but extreme exploration of Monte Fitz Roy, in Argentine Patagonia. It is all immortalised through the gaze of Matthew Tuft, an admirer of El Chalten, village at the foot of the massif, populated by a community that allows visitors to experience a truly immersive adventure, embracing nature and local culture at the same time. Painting the Mountains is a work that goes beyond a simple sports documentary. It is a poetic exploration of the relationship between man and the mountains, art and adventure. For those who love the mountains, ski mountaineering and stories about passion and dedication, this film offers a unique and inspiring perspective.
Premio RAI Trento
Svalbard: Silent Games Francesco Biscaglia
The documentary bears witness to how an international conflict can have major repercussions on the life of a small community in an isolated place in the world. In Norway's SvalBard archipelago (cold coasts) in the Arctic Ocean, with a wealth of coal mines, the 2970 inhabitants have coexisted peacefully for many years. They include Ukrainian miners and Russian and Norwegian office workers, divided by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Social relations and communal games have been suspended, while the Ukrainians have returned home to support the fighters. Intimate interviews accompanied by images of a desolate landscape and historic images of everyday life show how coexistence was possible and can still be so. The hope and wish is thus that the conflict will end and that times of harmony and socialisation between the different ethnic groups will return. The straightforward and simple narrative leaves time for the viewer to think and reflect, and despite being weighed down by the inclusion of some amateur footage, portrays a dramatic situation with evocative images of the Arctic landscape. The award is intended above all to emphasize the social aspects of global conflicts rendered silent but not absent by the vastness of the Arctic.
Premio Museo etnografico trentino San Michele
How to Lease a Cow Livni Holtz, Sebastian Reinicke, Nicolas Seiler
Constructed around the narrative keystone of the “Tagwanne” system, a way of measuring community work that was once a symbol of the agricultural/woodland/pasture economy, the documentary stands out for its skilful use of photography and intelligent alternation of evocative interviews and picturesque panoramas, taking us on a journey through the past and the present and inviting us to reflect on extremely topical issues, such as the fragility of the mountains, and climate and economic changes.
Premio Gruppo Dolomiti Energia - Energia sostenibile
The Wolves Always Come at Night Gabrielle Brady
For the artistic quality, intensity of narration and direction together with the protagonists and joint screenwriters. For the way in which it recounts the ancestral bond between human beings and the force of nature, vital and at the same time regenerative. A hybrid film, falling somewhere between fiction and documentary, in which the power of personal tragedy becomes a universal metaphor for the effects of climate change.
Premio Green Film - Menzione speciale
À qui le monde Marina Russo Villani, Victor Missud
ilm that tells a story of adaptation in a lyrical way, with touches of magical realism, striking a chord and leaving the viewer with hope, entrusted to the resilience of those who have tried to turn the invasion of an alien species into a resource.
Premio Green Film
The Wolves Always Come at Night Gabrielle Brady
A delicate, powerful and symbolic film recounting the effects of climate change on a family of shepherds, a community and a whole world that is disappearing, touching on the often forgotten but crucial issue of climate migrants.
Premio EUSALP. Quello che mi tiene qui - Menzione speciale
Cincanta Paolo Vinati
In a cultural context representing the idea of community and its preservation along with its traditions, Cincanta is an example of integrity. The church and care for the church through the ritual of prayer represent the heart of emotional and tenacious attachment to one's religious culture, without in any way disturbing the availability and universality of the message implied. The ritual of praying in the village chapel is open to everyone and invites reflection, in an almost secular manner. The sense of community and cross-over between different age groups becomes a symbol and defence of the identity and traditions of a community that does not surrender to a changing world.
Premio EUSALP. Quello che mi tiene qui - Menzione speciale
Mountain Roots Carrie McCarthy, Mark Pedri
For the intense interpretation of the passage and bond between generations. A story of lucky, necessary and courageous emigration to unknown places that are as magnificent as the mountains drawing the viewer to this compelling story. The excitement of discovery transmitted with naturalness and astonishment through the protagonist's eyes in the ritual ‘return to one’s roots’ and the respect for the mountains conveyed in artistic, at times poetic and moving ways, a value transcending the distance between countries and different landscapes, are particularly worthy of note.
Premio EUSALP. Quello che mi tiene qui
Le Capre di Margone Misheck Shikabeta
The values and spirit underpinning the Alpine macro-region, namely sustainability, inclusion and promotion of the Alpine area as a place to live and work, are impeccably interpreted in this documentary. Even the almost amateur nature of the film does not obscure the originality and freshness of the message, succeeding in fully highlighting the process of the circular economy alongside the tenacity of the lifestyle promoted by young entrepreneurs linked to the culture of the local area. The resistance and permanence of agricultural/woodland/pasture activities through recovery of ancient farming methods are an emblem for mountain communities struggling to remain alive and appealing. The documentary is therefore an authentic interpretation of the EUSALP Award theme ‘What keeps me here’.
Premio Dolomiti Patrimonio Mondiale - Menzione speciale
Misión Kipi Sonaly Tuesta
The film is a testimony to the ethical value of an educational project put into effect in remote Andean villages by a teacher at the time of the pandemic, with a robot made from recycled materials. During the adventurous encounters with schoolchildren, the transmission of traditional knowledge represents an innovative proposal for the use of artificial intelligence to overcome isolation and foster the social inclusion of communities.
Premio Dolomiti Patrimonio Mondiale
Muyeres Marta Lallana
In the mountains of Austurias, thanks to old recordings collected by a musicologist, a number of elderly women relive their life in a rural community, revealing the value of singing. The film, masterfully shot in black and white, with moments of extraordinary lyrical force, is also a journey into the past and present lives of the protagonists, who become custodians of a unique intangible heritage to be defended and handed down.
Premio "Città di Imola"
Altrove Gabriele Canu
It is an intimate and silent direction that draws us into the journey of Alessandro, Alberto, Armando and Matteo, four climbers who find themselves in an undefined place, almost suspended in time. An unexplored “elsewhere”, where pure mountaineering performance leaves space for adventure, irony, the authenticity of bonds and the desire to find one's own personal equilibrium, far from superfluous needs and the standards of modern society. A struggle against fear, in which the relationship between man and nature aligns with the values of Club alpino italiano.
Premio Cinema per i Diritti Umani
All The Mountains Give Arash Rakhsha
Through the perspective of the director and cameraman, deeply involved having experienced at first hand the conditions for Kurdish communities forced to work as Kolbari along the Iranian border, the film exploits all the possibilities of documentary cinema, portraying the totally precarious life of people without rights or a homeland with stylistic excellence. In the everyday details of the protagonists’ lives, the author captures the close link between poverty, labour exploitation and loss of freedom of choice, but also a courageous capacity for resilience rooted in the dignity of relationships.
Premio CinemAMoRE - Menzione Speciale
Conigli al Cimitero Filippo Maria Pontiggia
At a time when bears and wolves are at the centre of debate in Trentino, with dry wit and sensitivity as regards the local community, the film recalls the unusual invasion of Trento cemetery by rabbits a few years ago, here taking on tragicomic and “legendary” characteristics. An original story, enriched by archive research and lively interviews, with the use of music that supports the narration with surreal creativity.
Premio Antropocene MUSE
Apple Cider Vinegar Sofie Benoot
The film approaches the subject of the Anthropocene from a different perspective. Full of humour and melancholy, it reflects on our relationship with nature through rocks and minerals, a world we consider to be an inert substratum and nothing more, and which is instead shown to be alive, dynamic and inextricably linked to our existence. A film that is in its turn stratified and complex: the diary of a quest, an existential investigation and a reflection at global level.
Premio Amelia de Eccher – per Donne di Cinema e di Montagna
Trog Ella Hochleitner
Slowly and with a sense of inexorability, the director takes us into a home that for many years has housed a family and its stories. The viewer witnesses the resurfacing of terrible memories that intertwine to make up a collective portrait of the matriarch, a strong woman marked by tragedy. The director succeeds, with great delicacy, in bringing to the surface what is normally hidden and voluntarily repressed, thus recovering a female story destined to be forgotten.
