The Festival

Gran Paradiso Film Festival

Created in 1984, the Gran Paradiso Film Festival is an international festival dedicated to nature cinema and one of the most important cinema-related events held in the Aosta Valley Autonomous Region. The purpose of the Festival is to contribute to the wider circulation of nature cinema, to the furthering of knowledge of the naturalistic heritage and to the growth of respect for the environment. It takes place against the splendid backdrop of the Gran Paradiso, established in 1922 to protect the ibex. It is indeed within the majestic mountain scenarios of the Park that this Festival dedicated to Nature found its perfect location by stimulating creativity and researching for a quality cultural offer.

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Nature

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Art and entertainment

Culture

International Competition

Open to international feature films and medium-length films dedicated to nature, the International Competition aims at promoting a wider knowledge of the natural and environmental features of the whole world also through cinema.

CortoNatura

Open to international short fiction films, short animated films or short documentaries dedicated to nature, the CortoNatura section aims at promoting audiovisual production related to Nature and increasing youth participation to the festival.

De Rerum Natura

The DE RERUM NATURA events cycles offer food for thought and opportunities of deepening on choices dictated by the modern world, with leading figures in the Italian cultural panorama.

Aria di Festival

The ARIA DI FESTIVAL events cycles are pleasant moments of meeting through the discovery of places, histories and natural beauties of the territory.

20º EDITION

Mountains tought us to move aware of the risk and responsible for living, we have learnt to be free to choose.

Nives Meroi

19º EDITION

Human life has two horizons. An interior one, which lives in the non-visible world, and which is called “Soul”. The other horizon is called “Nature”, it is external to the human pupil, it is entirely enclosed in the visible world, and it receives, for projection, the idea human being has of its own “consisting” in the universe. Nature is, and it will always be, the first reference to humans.

Flavio Caroli

16º EDITION

…it is better to enjoy the beauty and then try to help to build it, that often means to leave it as it is.

Fabio Fazio

17º EDITION

From mountains I learned… to applaud the show of nature without making any noise.

Massimo Gramellini

18º EDITION

Nature is created, creation and what it will be. You live even if not everything that will be born will be your friend. You live for knowledge and you will make it your friend. Also of humanity.

Elena Cattaneo