9:30 am
Book
NATURAL WALK
An experiential walk-workshop dedicated to young people and adults. Nicola Rovetti, an expert in natural movement, guides the participants in a functional rediscovery of walking to improve physical strength and posture. The first part is dedicated to walking barefoot; in the second, once the shoes are put back on, advice and suggestions are given to continue training in everyday life.
3:30 pm
Book
FRATERNITATE
BROTHERNESS
David Power / 8 min / 2021 / Italian premiere / Germany, Italy, Romania
Two brothers on vacation pass the time with dives and little mischievous acts on the edge of the grown-ups' campsite. It seems that their games are carefree, but unfortunately their mother is ill, and their games are interspersed with moments of concern and mutual consolation, during which their fraternal bond appears deep and true.
CHAMPIONSHEEP
Jakub  Dolny / 2 min / 2022 / Italian premiere / Poland
A raucous audience has gathered around an arena and anxiously awaits the start of the race. However, the runners are not agile greyhounds, but idle sheep. An ironic and demented story is born from a play on words, which shows the absurdity of this entertainment for men, to the detriment of the animals.
JMENUJI SE EDGAR A MÁM KRÁVU
MY NAME IS EDGAR AND I HAVE A COW
Filip Diviak / 8 min / 2023 / Italian premiere / Czech Republic, Slovakia
Edgar is an ordinary middle-aged man who loves to eat meat. One day, while he is visiting a farm, he witnesses the birth of a calf. To save it from a macabre end, he decides to adopt the little animal and thoroughly upends his routine, replacing it with a simpler and happier life.
CHIMBORAZO
Keila Cepeda Satán / 7 min / 2022 / Spain
The true story of Baltazar Ushca, the last ice merchant who lives and works on the slopes of Mount Chimborazo, in Ecuador. His ancestors lived for centuries thanks to the ice trade, but with the advent of modernization, industrial ice has made his work useless: this small world of yore is disappearing, like the glacier.
SHIRAMPARI, HERENCIAS DEL RÍO
SHIRAMPARI: LEGACIES OF THE RIVER
Lucía Flórez / 15 min / 2022 / Italian premiere / Peru, Spain, United States
In the heart of the Amazon forest, a boy of the Ashéninka ethnic group is growing up. To prove he's ready for adult life, he'll have to catch a huge catfish using only a hook and his own skill.
GARISANI
Jin Woo / 8 min / 2022 / Korea, Republic of
The word "garisani" in Korean means the perception to judge things. In this imaginative and colourful short inspired by Korean mythology and punctuated by traditional music, a newborn deity rebels against their destiny and escapes the control of the creator-gods to explore the world in their own way, without constraints.
4:30 pm
DRAWING WATER
Boys and girls draw water and ways to save it. During the closing ceremony of the Festival, the competition, promoted by Acque Veronesi, will give an award to the drawing that best conveys the message about water as a precious asset to be safeguarded. The drawings will be exhibited during the Festival in the Mountain Bookshop.