30. Film Festival della Lessinia
Bosco Chiesanuova (Italia)
23 August - 1 September 2024

Alexandre lives in a small mountain village and since he was very young, has spent his summer in the highlands with his father, grazing their sheep. He is now twelve. Fernand, his father, has passed down all of his knowledge of the shepherd’s life. With his dog, Trace, Alexandre shares his life in the mountains with his flock, marmots and chamois, lynches and wolves. He learns to recognize plants, care for a lame sheep, and go down to the village to shop and get water. His most intense relationship is with his father. Up there, in the magnificent landscape of the French Alps, between the two there is a great complicity.  But Alexandre has a dream: to one day lead the herd by himself.

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  Anne Lapied

  Anne (1959) works together with Erik Lapied (1954). They began their career as photographers, and later became documentarists and, as they define themselves, “mountain filmmakers”. Their films deal with the mountain environment, animals, and the people who live there, and are filmed in France, but also in northern Europe, Africa, and the Himalayas. They won the Lessinia d’Oro in 2011 with Voyage au bout de l’hiver.

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  Erik Lapied

  Erik (1954) works together with Anne Lapied (1959). They began their career as photographers, and later became documentarists and, as they define themselves, “mountain filmmakers”. Their films deal with the mountain environment, animals, and the people who live there, and are filmed in France, but also in northern Europe, Africa, and the Himalayas. They won the Lessinia d’Oro in 2011 with Voyage au bout de l’hiver.