Director: Rick Silverman

Internet: www.mountainfilm.org

This year, from May 25^th to the 28^th, the 23^rd Filmfestival took place in the glorious town of Telluride, Colorado.

More than a Festival, this is an exceptional chance to meet people and experience events about the mountains. The Festival believes in the power of art and cinema to promote social change.

During the Festival, participants and guest will have the opportunity to meet and discuss with people who could not otherwise get to know outside this event, so still miraculously informal and spontaneous. The political approach to the issues of mountains and their inhabitants, and human rights violations, are discussed through feature films and documentaries, such as those concerning Tibet and topics concerning ecology and environment.

Despite broadening its themes year after year - this edition's Moving Mountains Symposium, for example, was dedicated to the Artic and Antartic regions - the Festival's main focus continues to be the promotion of debates on these issues and of this type of cinema, perceived as a form of art.

The 2001 Cervino Film Festival
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