After 12 years, an Italian director has been awarded the Golden Gentian - “Gran Premio Città di Trento”, the most prestigious prize awarded by the International Jury at the 55th TrentoFilmfestival. Among 40 films in the competition, the prize has been awarded to the Sicilian documentary-maker Stefano Savona for his film Primavera in Kurdistan, which deals with the war of the male and female PKK guerrillas in the Iraqi Kurdistan mountains, where they are defending the freedom and self-dete...

The 55th TrentoFilmfestival of mountains, exploration and adventure will be held in Trento from 28 April to 6 May 2007 under the artistic direction of Maurizio Nichetti.One of the significant changes in the 2007 Festival is that “MontagnaLibri”, the international review of Mountain Publications, will be open from 24 April onwards.The Festival will open in the S. Chiara Auditorium on 28 April with an evening-event: the screening of Charlie Chaplin’s film The Gold Rush (1925), with the music...