The Screens of Adventure 2022

A preview of the program for Friday, October 14 of the 31st edition of the “Les Ecrans de l’Aventure” festival.

For the day of Friday, October 14, you will be able to enjoy 6 films.

9:30 a.m.: Idjangathe gorilla forest, by Caroline Thiron

For more than fifteen years, Max Hurdebourcq, solitary and passionate observer of gorillas, has been committed to defending the tropical forests of Central Africa. It tries to find solutions to ensure a sustainable coexistence between silvicultural operators and the wild life that inhabits the forest concessions. Its goal: to set up a refuge area for the gorillas. For Max, it would be recognition and the culmination of his fight. Anything but silent forests!

10:40 a.m.: Felix and Chepa ; by Matthew Fournier

During his wood engineering studies, Félix Billey built a unique canoe-bike in the world. With this unusual object and a hen, he travels the roads of France and Switzerland with the primary goal of meeting people. An atypical way of life and thought, which can only upset our view of the world. Pass me the binoculars fitted the wheel of the canoe for a few weeks between the Val d’Hérens and the Rhône plain.

2:15 p.m.: Ô’Parizard, the song of the angels ; by Guillaume Pierrel

In the 1970s, pioneers explored the most beautiful mountains in the Alps and Himalayas; 45 years later, ski mountaineers decide to follow in the footsteps of their ancestors. They want to take their skis up to 8,000m. And descend by a route committed to the French way of 1975, their heritage. Their songs will carry them to the border of Afghanistan then to the “luminous wall”. Welcome to this joyous adventure of sharing and friendship!

3:25 p.m.: In God’s Hands ; by Mohamed Rida Gueznai

A spiritual journey full of adventure and thrills that Ammo embarked on in search of his friend Said, who does not use the telephone or modern means of communication, and who lives in a village deep in the rocky desert. of southeastern Morocco. A journey during which he experienced different situations that helped him free himself from the shackles of material life, which dispersed his being.

8:30 p.m.: Njord ; by Arnaud Bouquet, Caroline Côté and Vincent Colliard

For more than two months, in the heart of the polar winter and over a distance of more than 1000 kilometers in complete autonomy, two explorers, Caroline Côté and Vincent Colliard, will have to show endurance to reach the set objective. Through the preparations, the daily life of the expedition, the challenges and the dangers such as the wind, the bears and the bad visibility, they try to reach their goal. The commitment is great.

9:30 p.m.: Breadwinner ; by Maxime Berthou and Mark Pozlep

Family Support is a cinematographic essay based on the artistic performance Hogshead 733 which consisted of traveling aboard a wooden sailboat whose hull had been previously decontaminated and stripped bare. A journey from Trébeurden, Brittany, to Islay Island in Scotland was undertaken, with 20 stops along the way, from August 23 to September 21, 2015.