La Guilde Européenne du Raid

The 2nd edition of Dunkerque World Sea Film Festival

Cléo Poussier-Cottel — 2012-03-11T09:18:00Z

Spotlight on Dunkirk 7 to 9 June 2012

"A pre-selection jury started working hard and as reflected by the quality of the films received to date, the World Sea Festival 2012 is likely to be a great vintage.
Here is the preview of the official event poster. As a strong symbol of Dunkirk, a multifaceted harbour, the Risban lighthouse will brighten the Ecrans de la Mer horizon.
Anecdotally, this lighthouse was built on the remains of a previous fort established by Vauban in 1681 on which was initially built the first lighthouse in the city.
From the top of its lantern, 330 years of marine history looks upon us !"

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Spotlight on Dunkirk 7 to 9 June 2012

Films being submitted for pre-selection must be sent before 2012, April 6th.

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The Festival is organised by La Guilde Européenne du Raid, acting with the support of the City council, the Dunkerque metropolitan area and the Nord-Pas de Calais regional council.

The Festival is a showcase for documentaries films (running time maximum 60') directed within the last two years and dealing with sea related themes: environmental issues and marine exploration, sea oriented jobs (e.g. fishermen, sailors, maritime transports) and adventure and water sports (e.g. surfing, sailing, kayaking, swimming, scuba & free diving).

Films are eligible to compete for 6 award categories:

Grand Prix (cash prize of 2,500 €);

Award for the best sea-related environmental issues and marine exploration film (cash prize of 500 €);

Award for the best sea-related job film (cash prize of 500 €);

Award for the best adventures & water sports film (cash prize of 500 €);

Award for young director (cash prize of 500 €);

Dunkerque's Young jury's prize (cash prize of 500 €).

The cash prized are granted by the City Council and the metropolitan area of Dunkerque (50% for the filmmaker and 50% for the mainproducer).

For more information: cleopoussiercottel@la-guilde.org

2012 Dijon International Adventure Film Festival

Cléo Poussier-Cottel — 2012-03-02T12:25:00Z

The 21st edition
of the “ÉCRANS DE L'AVENTURE” of Dijon
will take place from 11 to 14 October 2012
at the Olympia and Darcy theatres

It will be chaired by Christine Genin-Zanetta.

The 21st edition
of the “ÉCRANS DE L'AVENTURE” of Dijon
will take place from 11 to 14 October 2012
at the Olympia and Darcy theatres

It will be chaired by Christine Genin-Zanetta, a sport medicine doctor, World champion in aerobatics and twice European champion. She has founded a high-level aerobatics club in Dijon.

You can already send your films (60 minutes maximum, and less than two years old) and register by clicking on the link below on the right.

Films being submitted for pre-selection must be sent before 2012, June 30th.

For any additional information please contact: cleopoussiercottel@la-guilde.org

"Les Écrans de l'Aventure" is at the heart of the city to Olympia Theatre and Darcy

This adventure film festival offers an exceptional opportunity for watching the best french and international documentaries, for meeting many adventurers, travellersand adventure film professionals. The Festival is a place where the audience is welcome to participate in debates, enjoy exhibitions and share time with the festival guests.

Great names of adventure have contributed to the worldwide fame of Les Ecrans de l'Aventure, among them Gérard d'Aboville, Sir Peter Blake (NZ), James Lovell (USA), Kurt Diemberger (Autriche), Sir Edmund Hillary (NZ), Dmitry Shparo (Russie), Claudie Haigneré, Bertrand Piccard (Suisse), Catherine Maunoury, Alain Bombard, Yves Coppens, Pierre Schoendoerffer, Guillaume de Monfreid, Yuichiro Miura (Japan), Nikolay Litau (Russia), Olivier Föllmi, Yves Rossy, Bernard Voyer (Canada)...

Festival awards:

5 prizes are awarded to films:
* "Toison d'Or" of the aventure film (5 000 € endowed by the city of Dijon)
* Jury's Special Prize
* Jean-Marc Boivin Prize
* Young Director Prize
* Dijon's Young Jury's Prize (endowed by "La librairie Chapitre Lib de L'U)

1 prize is awarded to a book:
* "Toison d'Or" for the adventure book (3 000 € endowed by the General Council of Côte d'Or)

3 prizes are awarded to a career:
* "Toison d'Or" for the adventurer of the year
* "Trophée Peter Bird"
* Alain Bombard Prize

All prizes will be provided with the best wines of Burgundy by “La confrérie des chevaliers du Tastevin”.

To view the 2011 trailer click here.

Download the 2011 awards by clicking here.

2011 award winners

Cléo Poussier-Cottel — 2011-12-12T11:34:38Z

Discover the 2011 award winners of the World sea film festival: www.ecransdelamer.com

Discover the 2011 program by clicking here.

2011 Awards

Cléo Poussier-Cottel — 2011-11-07T15:17:21Z

“Toison d'Or'' of the aventure film (Best Adventure Film - 5,000 € granted by the city of Dijon)

MIRACLE IN THE STORM (Australia)
A film by Guy Noms and Leo Farber. Producer: Essential Media and Entertainment. 52 minutes, 2010.
In 2007, German paraglider champion Ewa Wisnierska made history by surviving one of the most grueling encounters with the power of natural elements. A huge storm hurled her up into the sky at the height of 10,000 meters. Miraculously, Ewa will manage to get away from the storm and land back to the ground unhurt, or nearly so.

Jury special Prize

LA MONTAGNE MAGIQUE, SUR LES CHEMINS DU KAILASH (France)
A film by Florence Tran and Simon Allix. 52 minutes, 2011.
In the heart of the Himalayas, between 4,000 and 6,700 meters in height, there is a unique place which has drawn pilgrims in search of beauty and the Absolute for thousands of years. It is Mount Kailash: the sacred mountain for millions of Buddhists and Hinduists. Two wayfarers, fascinated by the power of the place, will make this pilgrimage, prompted each by a personal quest.

Jean-Marc Boivin Prize

TROU DE FER (Slovakia)
A film by Pavol Barabás. Production: K2 studio. 52 mintues, 2011.
The Iron Hole is a spot of breathtaking beauty situated in the heart of the Reunion National Park. Over there, volcanic upheaval has brought about a huge geological collapse eroded by continuous rainfalls. You have to struggle your way into the Iron Hole. Nevertheless, canyoning is practised by a handful of rash professionals. Among them, five Slovaks who will give it a try…

Dijon young Jury prize (sponsored by Dijon's Lib. de L'U. bookshop, and awarded by 6 pupils of a Dijon primary school)

SHERKAN, L'AIGLE DU MONT-BLANC (France)
A film directed and produced by Jacques-Olivier Travers. 52 minutes, 2011.
In 2006, a lover of bald-eagles embarks on a somewhat crazy bet, namely find out a way to teach flying to adult birds born in a cage but having never flown outside. Jacques-Olivier Travers chose an unbelievable method: fly with them on a paraglider! The funny thing about it is that the birds had never flown, neither had their instructor!

Young director prize

TREEVERSE (USA)
A film by John Waller. Production: Uncage the Soul Productions. 27 minutes, 2011.
In March 2011, Brian French and Will Koomjian start off on an unprecedented 1-km-long trek across the canopy of an old forest in Oregon. Unassisted, they have to carry all their equipment and their food with them without ever touching ground. Their success will depend on their ability to work together, on their tools, on their newfangled techniques and on a little bit of luck.

Alain Bombard prize (the prize was created in 2002. It rewards an exceptional adventure with an educational dimension).

It is awarded to Eric Bellion and his crew. We followed their adventure with the film
JOLOKIA, L'ODYSSÉE DES « BRAS CASSÉS » (France)
A film by Chloé Henry-Biabaud. Coproduction: La Générale de Production, with the participation of Ushuaïa TV, RTBF and CNC. Coproduced by TV Rennes 35 / Rennes Cité Média. 52 minutes, 2011.
On September, the 8th of 2010, a crew of valid and disabled sailors set sail on board the Jolokia with the hope of breaking a record across the ocean between Lorient and Mauritius. It's an outstanding enterprise prevailing over well-thought-of theories in order to actually deal with the real life of a team by all means out of the ordinary, thus raising the question of integration in everyday life.

Two Jury special mentions

For LES AILES DU SOLEIL (France)
A film by Henri de Gerlache. Production: GEDEON Programmes, Alizé Production, Freestudios. 52 minutes, 2011.
After many years of research and studies carried out by famous explorers and engineers Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg, the Solar Impulse HB-SIA plane has been designed in such a way that it can fly both day and night with solar energy only. It's a crazy dream which is meant to be a message of hope to show the whole world that progress is possible by using clean energies.

For DRAGON LADIES – NOUS IRONS À VENISE (France)
A film by Sylvie Barbe. Production: Docside production. 52 minutes, 2011.
The Vogalonga… the dream of an unusual crew: 20 women from Rheims, after a breast cancer operation, sailed off on a mythical race on board a dragon boat in May 2010. The film relates the incredible journey of the first French crew of the so-called Dragon Ladies, how the members were recruited, how hard they trained, how they were thrilled with uncertainty and finally D day when all together, they had to face more than the Laguna.

“Trophée Peter Bird Aventure SPB” (10 000 € granted by SPB)
created in 1987, the trophy rewards perseverance and tenacity in adventure.
This trophy was awarded to
ANNE QUÉMÉRÉ
for her last expedition: Pacific solo
(Pacific crossing alone on a kiteboat).

“Toison d'or” for the adventurer of the year (highest distinction for a personal adventure)
is awarded to
ANDRÉ BORSCHBERG
the pilot of the solar plane featuring
in the film LES AILES DU SOLEIL
directed by Henri de Gerlache
(see above Jury special mentions)

“Toison d'or” for the adventure book (granted by the General Council of Côte d'Or)

« LES EMPIRES DE L'INDUS.
Histoire d'un fleuve »
by ALICE ALBINIA
(Actes Sud).

The jury awarded a special mention to the book:
« L'AVENTURE DE TARA TARI »
by CORENTIN DE CHATELPERRON
(La Découvrance).

2011 Darcy movie theater program

Cléo Poussier-Cottel — 2011-10-30T11:16:00Z

Dijon international adventure film Festival
‘‘LES ÉCRANS DE L'AVENTURE''
3 - 6 November 2011

2011 trailer, click here.

Download, below right, the full program to cinemas Darcy and Olympia.

DARCY MOVIE THEATER

(for the Olympia program, click here)

Thursday, November 3

9:30 am
Sherkan, the Eagle of Mont-Blanc (Sherkan, l'aigle du Mont-Blanc)
A film directed and produced by Jacques-Olivier Travers
France, 52 minutes, 2011, preview.
In 2006, a lover of bald-eagles embarks on a somewhat crazy bet, namely find out a way to teach flying to adult birds born in a cage but having never flown outside. Jacques-Olivier Travers chose an unbelievable method: fly with them on a paraglider! The funny thing about it is that the birds had never flown, neither had their instructor!

10:30 am
In the bowels of the volcanoes (À l'intérieur des volcans)
A film by Jean-Gabriel Leynaud
Coproduction: Sombrero & Co and Voyage
France, 52 minutes, 2010.
Between Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bettina Aller and Jean-Gabriel Leynaud have wandered across the African rift down to the banks of the Erta'Ale and Nyiragongo, the two most beautiful lava lakes in the world. Together with volcanologist Jacques Durieux, they will reach the Eastern end of Congo in the very bowels of Nyiragongo's crater. A magic experience!

11:40 am
Nizwa, in the Wake of Henry de Monfreid (Nizwa, dans le sillage de Henry de Monfreid)
A film by Vincent Dumesnil
Production: Alif Productions
France, 54 minutes, 2010.
Following the instructions left by Henry de Monfreid in his letters and logs, the Niswa - a traditional arab sailing boat - has made a five-month exceptional journey. According to the tempo of the explorers' writings, the Nizwa and its crew are led from Dubaï to Yemen, Djibouti, Erythree and along the coasts of Sudan and Egypt.

2:30 pm
Sightless in Iceland (Huis clos islandais)
A film directed and produced by Philippe Sauve
France, 30 minutes, 2011, preview.
Georges Nicolas who became blind in 1995, tries to walk across Iceland with Philippe Sauve. From the fields strewn with lava hurled from the volcanoes at the foot of the largest glacier in Europe, namely the Vatnajökull, to the grim areas in the Highlands, both friends keep on hiking like two ill-trained sherpas, bearing the weight of their self-dependence and sharing two different ways of traveling.

3:10 pm
Walpole, the Mysterious Island (Walpole, l'île mystérieuse)
A film by Eric Beauducel
Production: Cauri films
France, 59 minutes, 2010.
Walpole, a remote island off New Caledonia was, for more than 30 years, an important area of guano production. However, Walpole is above all a place teeming with mysteries, tales and legends… Archaeologist Christophe Sand, the last scientist having shortly visited the isle 12 years ago, starts off with his team on a new attempt with a view to, at long last, discovering its myriad of secrets.

4:20 pm
The Horse of the Everest (Le cheval de l'Everest)
A film by Bernard Germain
Production: MC4
France, 52 minutes, 2009.
Gurmen, a young and brillant Sherpa guide from the Everest decides to take a new direction… He looks for a horse for tourists to hire. After a great many moves in Nepal, a country which undergoes political unrest, he comes up on a mare called Karma which baffles the villagers and upsets his family's way of life.

9:00 pm - SPECIAL 20 YEARS
Au Pays des Djinns
A film by Jean-Gabriel Leynaud
Production: Gédéon Programmes
France – 52 minutes – Prix Jean-Marc Boivin and Toison d'or de l'aventurier de l'année 2002 for Régis Belleville
Regis Belleville and camel driver Taha Ould Boussief have just walked through Africa totally unassisted. In 50 days, with 8 camels, they covered the 1.137 km from Chinguetti, Mauritania to Timbouctou, which is the longest distance between two water supply points. This unprecedented exploit led them to some unchartered areas.

10:00 pm - SPECIAL 20 YEARS
Au nom du fils
A film by Philippe Jamain
Coproduction: Aber Images, Voyage, RFO
France – 52 minutes – Prix des jeunes de la ville de Dijon 2003
Edgar Maufrais was informed on 7th July 1950, that his son Raymond had disappeared in Amazonia during a rather daring expedition. Aged 52, convinced that is son is still living, totally inexperienced, with very little means, he decides to go and search him.
http://www.maufrais.info

Friday, November 4

9:30 am
Linea Continua
A film by Hervé Barmasse, G. Berthet, D. Levati
Production: A.S.D. Les Yeux du Mt Cervin
Italy, 17 minutes, 2010, preview.
Family Barmasse de Valtournenche is in actual fact four generations of mountaineers, climbers, explorers and mountain guides. On March 17, 2010, both father and son, Marco and Hervé, set out to climb the Southern face of the Cervin in order to open one of the last climbing routes of the Alps. Indeed, in the Val d'Aoste, for mountain lovers, there is a no better place than a 1,200-meter-high face for a mountain to tell her most attractive story.

10:00 am
Tara Oceans – The secret world (Tara Océans – Le monde secret)
A film by Michaël Pitiot
Production: MC4
France, 52 minutes, 2011.
Seen from the sky, the Earth is blue. But in fact, what do we know about the oceans of our planet? Or indeed of their inhabitants? To try to answer those questions, a team of scientists boarded a schooner called Tara. Their trip will be a kind of investigation into a secret world, a mysterious world known as plankton, their world meaning millions of different organisms... One thing is certain: we know these marine organisms play a major role in the life of our planet.

11:00 am
Jolokia, the odyssey of the ‘battered lunatics' (Jolokia, l'odyssée
des « bras cassés »)
A film by Chloé Henry-Biabaud
Coproduction: La Générale de Production, with the participation of Ushuaïa TV, RTBF and CNC. Coproduced by TV Rennes 35 / Rennes Cité Média.
France, 52 minutes, 2011.
On September, the 8th of 2010, a crew of valid and disabled sailors set sail on board the Jolokia with the hope of breaking a record across the ocean between Lorient and Mauritius. It's an outstanding enterprise prevailing over well-thought-of theories in order to actually deal with the real life of a team by all means out of the ordinary, thus raising the question of integration in everyday life.

2:30 pm
The magic mountain, on the road to Kailash (La montagne magique, sur les chemins du Kailash)
A film by Florence Tran and Simon Allix
Production: Sombrero & Co, with the participation of France 5 and Voyage
France, 52 minutes, 2011.
In the heart of the Himalayas, between 4000 and 6700 meters in height, there is a unique place which has drawn pilgrims in search of beauty and the Absolute for thousands of years. It is Mount Kailash: the sacred mountain for millions of Buddhists and Hinduists. Two wayfarers, fascinated by the power of the place, will make this pilgrimage, prompted each by a personal quest.

3:30 pm
The Boudeuse – The Gold of Ouanary (La Boudeuse – L'or de Ouanary)
A film by Patrice Franceschi and Valérie Labadie
Production: Tantatuga Productions
France, 52 minutes, 2011.
The last film relating the expeditions of the Boudeuse in French Guiana puts an end to the experience which lasted nearly one year and which tells about the environmental tests carried out in the inhospitable marshes of Behague Peninsula. It also shows the boat sailing dangerously up the river Oyapock, and mainly the typical way of life the crew shares with the illegal gold-seekers in the territory of Ouanary near the Brazil border.

4:40 pm
Seen from Above (Vue d'en haut)

Vue d'en Haut: bande-annonce from BIDESHI FILMS on Vimeo.

A film by Sébastien Rist
Production: Bideshi Films, LOJIQ
Canada, 26 minutes, 2011, preview, off competition.
Eleven young Inuits from the remote areas of Northern Quebec and explorer Bernard Voyer, set off on a journey across the Peruvian Andes. It's a moving story showing that – against odds - only determination, close relationship and above all friendship, enable to overcome any challenge and to reach the highest summits.

9:00 pm - SPECIAL 20 YEARS
Un désert vertical
A film by Daniel du Lac
Production: Altisphère
France – 46 minutes – 2006 Young director prize
Sun, choking heat, sand tempests, deshydration, Mali should discourage even the most motivated. The High Gourma is a unique climbing site full of routes to open and climb. Leading the team, Daniel du Lac performs a sahelian ascent rich in discoveries, meetings, successes and open spaces.

10:00 pm - SPECIAL 20 YEARS
Chasseurs de serpents
A film by Alain Rastoin
Production: Gédéon programmes
France – 52 minutes – 1998 Jury's special prize
Alexandre Teynié and Frédéric Durant, two naturalists from Auvergne (one is specialist in reptiles, the other in wasps), are gone for a month on the slopes of Yemen which is still largely an unknown land for science.

Saturday, November 5

9:30 am - SPECIAL 20 YEARS
Les Montagnes du Silence
A film by Luc Marescot
Producers: ATOM, The association Mountains of Silence in association with France 5, France 3 Thalassa, Television Suisse Romande and the support of CNC
France – 52 minutes – 2005 Alain Bombard Prize
In November 2004, the Association “Les montagnes du Silence” organised the Endurance expedition: a team of deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing people was to leave the Falkland Islands to join South Georgia, following the route of Sir Ernest Shackleton, the hero of the polar conquest. In this passionate search of wild areas and summits, the participants are not triggered by sports achievement, they merely look for the pleasures of life, the emotion of discovery and the sensations of exploration.

10:40 am - SPECIAL 20 YEARS
La Grande Traversée
A film by Thierry Robert
Production: Gédéon Programmes
France – 52 minutes – 2000 Jean-Marc Boivin Prize and Dijon young jury's prize
March 2000. Arnaud Tortel et Rodolphe André tried to complete the crossing of the North Pole icecap without any assistance. The crossing had often been attempted but never successfully. 100 days of terrible ordeals along the 1 800 kilometers between Siberia and the Canadian Arctic, an incredibly risky venture across the mysterious and moving world of drifting pack.

11:45 am - SPECIAL 20 YEARS
Voisins des Nuages
A film by Franck Cuvellier
Production: Média Vidéo Compagnie
France – 52 minutes – 2000 “Toison d'Or'' of the aventure film Slowly but inevitably, a variety of wild goose is dying out in Europe. The French, Christian Moullec and the Swede, Lambart Von Essen, perceptive observers of this extinction decide to oppose the trend carrying out a migratory transplant. This poetic film is an ecological suspense, a human adventure, and a scientific tale meant for all.

2:30 pm - SPECIAL 20 YEARS
Amazonia Vertigo
A film by Evrard Wendenbaum
Production: Migoo production
France – 52 minutes – 2006 “Toison d'Or'' of the aventure film and “Toison d'or” for the adventurer of the year for the team of Angel Falls Gushing out from the Auyan plateau which juts out of the Amazonian forest, the waters of the Angel Falls reach the ground 1000 meters down. They are the highest falls in the world. An international team including the best climbers of the time, among which Arnaud Petit and Stephanie Bodet, start to climb the wall so steep that it was first ascented in 2005.

3:35 pm - SPECIAL 20 YEARS
Le Défi de Jamie
Directors: Ian Taylor and Emmanuel Cauchy
Production: Gédéon Programmes
France – 52 minutes – 2002 Dijon young jury's prize and Peter Bird/SPB Trophy for Jamie Andrew
January 1989, two Scottish mountain climbers are retrieved on top of a glacier in the Mont-Blanc massif : one has died, the other, Jamie Andrews, is seriously frostbitten. His feet and hands shall be amputated. Two years after the tragedy, as a tribute to his friend, Jamie undertakes the climb of the Cosmiques ridge with two artificial legs and an ice-axe prosthesis, accompanied by his rescuers.

Sunday, November 6

2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Projection of the 2011 films rewarded.

The program may be modified.

2011 Olympia movie theater program

Cléo Poussier-Cottel — 2011-10-30T10:43:00Z

Dijon international adventure film Festival
‘‘LES ÉCRANS DE L'AVENTURE''
3 - 6 November 2011

Download, below right, the full program to cinemas Darcy and Olympia.

2011 trailer, click here.

OLYMPIA MOVIE THEATER

( for the Darcy program, click here)

Thursday, November 3

9:30 am
Nizwa, in the Wake of Henry de Monfreid (Nizwa, dans le sillage de Henry de Monfreid)
A film by Vincent Dumesnil
Production: Alif Productions
France, 54 minutes, 2010.
Following the instructions left by Henry de Monfreid in his letters and logs, the Niswa - a traditional arab sailing boat - has made a five-month exceptional journey. According to the tempo of the explorers' writings, the Nizwa and its crew are led from Dubaï to Yemen, Djibouti, Erythree and along the coasts of Sudan and Egypt.

10:30 am
Miracle in the storm
A film by Guy Noms and Leo Farber
Production: Essential Media and Entertainment
Australia, 52 minutes, 2010, preview.
In 2007, German paraglider champion Ewa Wisnierska made history by surviving one of the most grueling encounters with the power of natural elements. A huge storm hurled her up into the sky at the height of 10,000 meters. Miraculously, Ewa will manage to get away from the storm and land back to the ground unhurt, or nearly so.

11:40 am
Sherkan, the Eagle of Mont-Blanc (Sherkan, l'aigle du Mont-Blanc)
A film directed and produced by Jacques-Olivier Travers
France, 52 minutes, 2011, preview.
In 2006, a lover of bald-eagles embarks on a somewhat crazy bet, namely find out a way to teach flying to adult birds born in a cage but having never flown outside. Jacques-Olivier Travers chose an unbelievable method: fly with them on a paraglider! The funny thing about it is that the birds had never flown, neither had their instructor!

2:30 pm
Treeverse
A film by John Waller
Production: Uncage the Soul Productions
USA, 27 minutes, 2011, preview.
In March 2011, Brian French and Will Koomjian start off on an unprecedented 1-km-long trek across the canopy of an old forest in Oregon. Unassisted, they have to carry all their equipment and their food with them without ever touching ground. Their success will depend on their ability to work together, on their tools, on their newfangled techniques and on a little bit of luck.

3:10 pm
The Boudeuse – The Gold of Ouanary (La Boudeuse – L'or de Ouanary)
A film by Patrice Franceschi and Valérie Labadie
Production: Tantatuga Productions
France, 52 minutes, 2011.
The last film relating the expeditions of the Boudeuse in French Guiana puts an end to the experience which lasted nearly one year and which tells about the environmental tests carried out in the inhospitable marshes of Behague Peninsula. It also shows the boat sailing dangerously up the river Oyapock, and mainly the typical way of life the crew shares with the illegal gold-seekers in the territory of Ouanary near the Brazil border.

4:30 pm
Seen from Above (Vue d'en haut)

Vue d'en Haut: bande-annonce from BIDESHI FILMS on Vimeo.

8:30 pm
Official opening of the Festival
by Christine Martin, deputy in charge of the festivities of the city, of the festivals and of the attractive places of interest, Bernard Voyer, President of the film jury and Olivier Allard, CEO of La Guilde and the festival.

9:00 pm
Tara Oceans – The secret world (Tara Océans – Le monde secret)
A film by Michaël Pitiot
Production: MC4
France, 52 minutes, 2011.
Seen from the sky, the Earth is blue. But in fact, what do we know about the oceans of our planet? Or indeed of their inhabitants? To try to answer those questions, a team of scientists boarded a schooner called Tara. Their trip will be a kind of investigation into a secret world, a mysterious world known as plankton, their world meaning millions of different organisms... One thing is certain: we know these marine organisms play a major role in the life of our planet.

10:00 pm
Jolokia, the odyssey of the ‘battered lunatics' (Jolokia, l'odyssée
des « bras cassés »)
A film by Chloé Henry-Biabaud
Coproduction: La Générale de Production, with the participation of Ushuaïa TV, RTBF and CNC. Coproduced by TV Rennes 35 / Rennes Cité Média.
France, 52 minutes, 2011.
On September, the 8th of 2010, a crew of valid and disabled sailors set sail on board the Jolokia with the hope of breaking a record across the ocean between Lorient and Mauritius. It's an outstanding enterprise prevailing over well-thought-of theories in order to actually deal with the real life of a team by all means out of the ordinary, thus raising the question of integration in everyday life.

Friday, November 4

9:30 am
Call of the white
A film by Elliott Forge
Production: Snowline Productions
UK, 43 minutes, 2011, preview.
In 2009, British polar explorer, Felicity Aston, made up a team of women from the Commonwealth planning to reach the South Pole on skis. Some of them have never seen the snow, nor been through subzero temperatures nor spent a single night in a tent, but their mutual love of the most extreme regions of the planet – Antarctica – prompted them to unite and make up a team.

10:30 am
The Horse of the Everest (Le cheval de l'Everest)
A film by Bernard Germain
Production: MC4
France, 52 minutes, 2009.
Gurmen, a young and brillant Sherpa guide from the Everest decides to take a new direction… He looks for a horse for tourists to hire. After a great many moves in Nepal, a country which undergoes political unrest, he comes up on a mare called Karma which baffles the villagers and upsets his family's way of life.

11:30 am
Walpole, the Mysterious Island (Walpole, l'île mystérieuse)
A film by Eric Beauducel
Production: Cauri films
France, 59 minutes, 2010.
Walpole, a remote island off New Caledonia was, for more than 30 years, an important area of guano production. However, Walpole is above all a place teeming with mysteries, tales and legends… Archaeologist Christophe Sand, the last scientist having shortly visited the isle 12 years ago, starts off with his team on a new attempt with a view to, at long last, discovering its myriad of secrets.

2:30 pm
Linea Continua
A film by Hervé Barmasse, G. Berthet, D. Levati
Production: A.S.D. Les Yeux du Mt Cervin
Italy, 17 minutes, 2010, preview.
Family Barmasse de Valtournenche is in actual fact four generations of mountaineers, climbers, explorers and mountain guides. On March 17, 2010, both father and son, Marco and Hervé, set out to climb the Southern face of the Cervin in order to open one of the last climbing routes of the Alps. Indeed, in the Val d'Aoste, for mountain lovers, there is a no better place than a 1,200-meter-high face for a mountain to tell her most attractive story.

3:00 pm
On the trails of the glaciers
A film by Massimiliano Sbrolla and Paolo Aralla
Coproduction: Sd cinematografica, Arte
Germany-Italy, 55 minutes, 2011.
A hundred years after the scientific ascent of the Baltoro glacier in Karakorum by the Duke of the Abruzzi, a team of scientists and photographers, led by photographer and alpinist Fabiano Ventura, follows in the footsteps of the explorer with a view to revealing the effects of the climate change by trying to take the same photos as the Duke.

4:30 pm
The magic mountain, on the road to Kailash (La montagne magique, sur les chemins du Kailash)
A film by Florence Tran and Simon Allix
Production: Sombrero & Co, with the participation of France 5 and Voyage
France, 52 minutes, 2011.
In the heart of the Himalayas, between 4000 and 6700 meters in height, there is a unique place which has drawn pilgrims in search of beauty and the Absolute for thousands of years. It is Mount Kailash: the sacred mountain for millions of Buddhists and Hinduists. Two wayfarers, fascinated by the power of the place, will make this pilgrimage, prompted each by a personal quest.

9:00 pm
The Wings of the Sun (Les ailes du soleil)
A film by Henri de Gerlache
Production: GEDEON Programmes, Alizé Production, Freestudios.
France, 52 minutes, 2011.
After many years of research and studies carried out by famous explorers and engineers Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg, the Solar Impulse HB-SIA plane has been designed in such a way that it can fly both day and night with solar energy only. It's a crazy dream which is meant to be a message of hope to show the whole world that progress is possible by using clean energies.

10:00 pm
Dragon Ladies – Destination Venice (Dragon ladies – Nous irons à Venise)
A film by Sylvie Barbe
Production: Docside production
France, 52 minutes, 2010.
The Vogalonga… the dream of an unusual crew: 20 women from Rheims, after a breast cancer operation, sailed off on a mythical race on board a dragon boat in May 2010. The film relates the incredible journey of the first French crew of the so-called Dragon Ladies, how the members were recruited, how hard they trained, how they were thrilled with uncertainty and finally D day when all together, they had to face more than the Laguna.

Saturday, November 5

9:30 am
Sightless in Iceland (Huis clos islandais)
A film directed and produced by Philippe Sauve
France, 30 minutes, 2011, preview.
Georges Nicolas who became blind in 1995, tries to walk across Iceland with Philippe Sauve. From the fields strewn with lava hurled from the volcanoes at the foot of the largest glacier in Europe, namely the Vatnajökull, to the grim areas in the Highlands, both friends keep on hiking like two ill-trained sherpas, bearing the weight of their self-dependence and sharing two different ways of traveling.

10:10 am
In the bowels of the volcanoes (À l'intérieur des volcans)
A film by Jean-Gabriel Leynaud
Coproduction: Sombrero & Co and Voyage
France, 52 minutes, 2010.
Between Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bettina Aller and Jean-Gabriel Leynaud have wandered across the African rift down to the banks of the Erta'Ale and Nyiragongo, the two most beautiful lava lakes in the world. Together with volcanologist Jacques Durieux, they will reach the Eastern end of Congo in the very bowels of Nyiragongo's crater. A magic experience!

11:10 am
The Iron Hole (Trou de fer)
A film by Pavol Barabás
Production: K2 studio
Slovakia, 52 minutes, 2011, preview.
The Iron Hole is a spot of breathtaking beauty situated in the heart of the Reunion National Park. Over there, volcanic upheaval has brought about a huge geological collapse eroded by continuous rainfalls. You have to struggle your way into the Iron Hole. Nevertheless, canyoning is practised by a handful of rash professionals. Among them, five Slovaks who will give it a try…

2:30 pm
Coast to Coast « A piece of my heart »
A film by Olivier Aubert and Mike Blyth
Production: Mangetti Productions
Switzerland-South Africa, 52 minutes, off competition.
(Best Adventure Film in 2005)
With their 2 gliders, Mike Blyth and Olivier Aubert fly off on a 4-month-flight over the rivers and grand landscapes of Southern Africa, in the wake of explorer Livingstone. From one coast to the other, they bring more than a hundred people who have never flown before, to share their passion.

3:50 pm
6 months in a hut in Baïkal (6 mois de cabane au Baïkal)
A film by Sylvain Tesson and Florence Tran
Coproduction: Bo travail et Voyage
France, 52 minutes, 2011, off competition.
Forests are there to help find a solution to all disorders of life. To quench his thirst for freedom, Sylvain Tesson has found a downright solution: shut himself up on his own in a hut right in the middle of the Siberian taïga for 6 months. Carrying his movie camera on his shoulder, he collects the pictures of his daily happenings, of his life in the hut and of the breathtaking scenery which surrounds him. The diary of a man in quest of the basics of life.

5:00 pm
Official announcement of the list of awards
with Christine Martin, deputy in charge of the festivities of the city, of the festivals and the attractive places of interest, Bernard Voyer, President of the Film Jury, Christel Mouchard, President of the book Jury and Pierre Fyot, Honorary chairman of the Guilde.

The juries of the Festival will attribute:
Best adventure film (attributed by the city of Dijon)
Jury special award
Jean-Marc Boivin award
Award from the young of Dijon (attributed by the bookshop Chapitre « Lib de L'U »)
Award for the young director
Best adventure book
Best adventurer of the year
Alain Bombard award
Peter Bird/SPB award (attributed by SPB)

In addition to the awards, the Brotherhood of the Knights of Tastevin will offer the best Burgundy wines as a gift.

8:30– 11:30 pm
Projection of the 2011 films rewarded.

Sunday, November 6

2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. – Darcy Theater
Projection of the 2011 films rewarded.

The program may be modified.

Partners of the festival

Cléo Poussier-Cottel — 2011-10-18T10:59:00Z

ORGANIZATION:

The city of Dijon
http://www.dijon.fr

La Guilde
http://aventure.la-guilde.org

PARTNERS OF THE FESTIVAL:

France 3 Bourgogne - Franche-Comté
http://bourgogne-franche-comte.france3.fr

France Bleu Bourgogne
http://www.radiofrance.com

La chaîne de télévision Voyage
http://www.voyage.fr

EDF en Bourgogne
http://www.edf-bourgogne.com

La Fnac Dijon
http://www.fnac.com

SPB
http://www.spb.fr

La Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin
http://www.tastevin-bourgogne.com

Librairie Chapitre Lib de L'U
http://librairies.chapitre.com

A/R Magazine voyageur
http://www.ar-mag.fr

Trek magazine
http://www.trekmag.com

Grands Reportages

Practical information

Cléo Poussier-Cottel — 2011-09-21T22:00:00Z

Festival place:
3 to 6 November 2011 - Dijon
Cinéma Olympia: 16, avenue Maréchal Foch
Cinéma Darcy: 8, place Darcy
Ph.: +33 (0) 3 80 43 55 99
http://www.cinemaolympia.com

Projections will start 9:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m., 8:30 p.m.

Bus to the Olympia and Darcy theater
Bus lines: 4 - 5 - 12 - 18 - 19
Bus stops: Darcy place and Darcy square

Parking
For the Olympia theater: Gare SNCF (300 m away) - rue des Perrières
Parking tickets can be bought at the Olympia theater
or at the parking lot cash on presentation of the movie entrance ticket.
1 €/2 hours - 2 €/4 hours

For the Darcy theater: place Darcy (300 m away)
Parking tickets can be bought at the Darcy movie theater
0,90 €/2 hours - 1,20 €/3hours

Entrance fee:
1 € per film
5 € per evening
20 € pass 3 days
Rebroadcast Film awards November 6: 5 €
School groups: 0,50 cents per child and per film
Free for children under 12.

Tickets on sale from October 1st
Cinéma Olympia : 03 80 43 55 99

Information
La Guilde
11, rue de Vaugirard - 75006 Paris
Ph: 01 43 26 97 52
aventure@la-guilde.org

Awards 2010

Cléo Poussier-Cottel — 2010-12-20T13:58:00Z

“Toison d'Or'' of the aventure film
ON A MARCHE SOUS LE POLE (5 000 € granted by the city of Dijon) by Thierry Robert.

Jury's special prize
BIRDMAN OF THE KARAKORAM (Whales) by Alun Hughes.

Jean-Marc Boivin Prize
L'EXTRAORDINAIRE TOURNEE DU FACTEUR MAIGNAN by Patrick Soulabaille.

Dijon young jury's prize
ON A MARCHE SOUS LE POLE by Thierry Robert.

Young director prize
BONJOUR LES MORSES by Antonio Fischetti.

Jury's special mentions
For Mike Perham
UN TOUR DU MONDE A 16 ANS by Adam Boome.

Price of the audience of the off festival
FÖLLMI'S DESTINY by Céline Moulys.

Dijon International Adventure Film Festival
LES ECRANS DE L'AVENTURE
25 to 28 November 2010

2010 awards

“Toison d'Or'' of the aventure film
ON A MARCHE SOUS LE POLE (5 000 € granted by the city of Dijon) by Thierry Robert. Producer : Docside production. 52 minutes, 2010.

On a marché sous le Pôle
envoyé par guilde_e. - Regardez plus de vidéo de sport et de sports extrêmes.
A handful of explorers plans to realize an expedition from the North pole to the Ellesmere Island, in the extreme north of Canada. For Ghislain, Emmanuelle, his companion and the others, Alban, Sam, Ben, Clement, Vincent, Pascal, the expedition is more initiatory than adventurous. An experience on the ice pack that will remain imprinted in their mind for ever.

Jury's special prize
BIRDMAN OF THE KARAKORAM (Whales)
Directo rand producer Alun Hughes. 65 minutes, 2009.
For 20 years, John Silvester, one of the best paragliding pilots, a pioneer of extreme altitude flights, fascinated by the concentration of peaks over 8000 meters in height, has kept coming in the Karakoram range, located in the northern part of Pakistan. In order to understand what high altitude paragliding in untouched atmospheres really means for John, Director Alan Hughes embarks on a tandem flight with him.

Jean-Marc Boivin Prize
L'EXTRAORDINAIRE TOURNEE DU FACTEUR MAIGNAN by Patrick Soulabaille. Coproducers: Bleu Iroise, France Télévisions. 52 minutes, 2009

L'extraordinaire tournée du facteur Maignan
envoyé par guilde_e. - Découvrez les dernières vidéos de sport.
Alain Maignan undertakes a single-handed non stop round the world sail. Postman in Brittany as a living he is a sailor in the heart. He saves money and days off for the journey. Fighting in the "Furious Fifties", he worries not to be back in time for the mail delivery. The film shows 185 days of the life of an ordinary man involved in an extraordinary adventure.

Dijon young jury's prize
(sponsored by Dijon's Lib. de L'U. bookshop, and awarded by 5 pupils of a Dijon primary school)
ON A MARCHE SOUS LE POLE (see “Toison d'Or'' of the aventure film)

Young director prize
BONJOUR LES MORSES by Antonio Fischetti. Producers: CNRS Images with the participation of Charlie Hebdo and IPEV. 55 minutes, 2009.
Two CNRS scientists, Isabelle Charrier and Thierry Aubin, study vocal communication between walrus in Arctic. But in the remote north, nothing is easy. Due to bad weather conditions, they are trapped by the ice pack on top of an iceberg. Without any shelter and food, they just hope for rescue.

Jury's special mentions
For Mike Perham
UN TOUR DU MONDE A 16 ANS by Adam Boome. Producers: Blink film for Channel 4 and ITV, diffusion Thalassa. 50 minutes, 2010.

Un tour du monde à 16 ans
envoyé par guilde_e. - Découvrez les dernières vidéos de sport.
After crossing the Atlantic Ocean in 2007 at the age of 16, Mike Perham decides he will be the youngest solo navigator ever to sail round-the-world. Encouraged by his father, he sets off from Portsmouth in November 2008 and crosses the line at Lizard Point in August 27th 2009. For nine long months Mike faced danger, fear, despondency, damages, storms and loneliness.

Price of the audience of the off festival
FÖLLMI'S DESTINY
Director and producer: Céline Moulys. 90 minutes, 2009.

Föllmis' destiny
envoyé par guilde_e. - Découvrez de nouvelles destinations en vidéo.
Olivier and Danielle Föllmi scan over thirty years of their experience, life and intense relationship with the himalayan regions and people. We understand the way the humanistic glance of the Olivier and the calling for writing of Danielle were set up.

“Toison d'or” for the adventure book
« Le vol du paon mène à Lhassa » by Elodie Bernard (Gallimard).

“Toison d'or” for the adventurer of the year
(highest distinction for a personal adventure) is awarded to John Silvester adventurous character of the film BIRDMAN OF THE KARAKORAM by Alun Hughes.

Alain Bombard prize
(the prize was created in 2002. It rewards an exceptional adventure with an educational dimension).
It is awarded to Jerry Gore for his message of hope for people suffering from diabetes in the film TRANGO by Denis Roy. Producers: Totem Pole productions and Chrysalide studio. 52 minutes, 2010.

Trango
envoyé par guilde_e. - Plus de vidéos de sport professionnelle et amateur.
The Great Trango tower (6.239 m) is located in the Karakoram mountain range in the extreme north of Pakistan. A European team including Pole Elisa Kubarska and David Kaszlikowski, British Jerry Gore and Gaz Parry and French Pierre Muller and Denis Roy will try to free climb the Eternal Flame, a 1.100 meter high route considered as one of the most beautiful and hardest ways in the world.

Peter Bird/SPB Trophy
(10 000 € granted by SPB) created in 1987, the trophy rewards perseverance and tenacity in adventure.
It was handed to Alain Maignan pictured in the film L'EXTRAORDINAIRE TOURNEE DU FACTEUR MAIGNAN by Patrick Soulabaille (see Jean-Marc Boivin Prize).

2010 Olympia movie theater program

Cléo Poussier-Cottel — 2010-11-12T17:29:00Z

Dijon international adventure film festival
“LES ECRANS DE L'AVENTURE”
November 25 to 28, 2010

OLYMPIA MOVIE THEATER

Thursday, November 25

9:30 a.m.
Into the sky

Bande annonce Into the sky
envoyé par guilde_e. - Plus de vidéos de sport professionnelle et amateur.
Director and producer: François Isoard
France, 52 minutes, 2009, unpublished
French hang glider pilot and cameraman François Isoard presents a film of the December 2008 Namibian hang glider record-hunting expedition. He shows the adventure of 15 hang gliding fanatics in Namibia, and comprises the portraits of pilots explaining their passion, their sensations and emotions… that go far beyond the sport just to let us share their pleasure.

10:30 a.m.
L'odyssée d'un rêve

L'Odyssee d'un rêve
envoyé par guilde_e. - Plus de vidéos de sport professionnelle et amateur.
Director: Lucie Robin
Coproducers: Mediakrea and Cap Odyssée
France, 52 minutes, 2010, avant-première
On August 28th, 2009, Stephanie Géyer Barneix and team partners Alexandra Lux and Flora Manciet made their dream come true. For 54 nights and days, they took turns every two hours, to cover on a paddleboard the 5000 km across the Atlantic Ocean from Cape Breton in Canada to Capbreton in the south of France by the only strength of their shoulders and arms.

11:30 a.m.
La piste Frison-Roche

LaPisteFrisonRoche
envoyé par guilde_e. - Découvrez les dernières vidéos de sport.
Director: Arthur Chays writted by Sophie Cuenot
Producer: Intrépide productions
France, 52 minutes, 2009, unpublished
A young journalist leaves Paris and walks in the footsteps of Roger Frison-Roche who died ten years ago. The famous adventurer-writer takes him from the Mont-Blanc range to the Sahara desert through Lapland and makes him meet up with mountain guides, writers and film makers who carry on his adventure spirit and his curiosity.

2:30 p.m.

Un tour du monde à 16 ans
envoyé par guilde_e. - Découvrez les dernières vidéos de sport.
Un tour du monde à 16 ans
Director: Adam Boome
Producers: Blink film for Channel 4 and ITV, diffusion Thalassa
UK, 50 minutes, 2010
After crossing the Atlantic Ocean in 2007 at the age of 16, Mike Perham decides he will be the youngest solo navigator ever to sail round-the-world. Encouraged by his father, he sets off from Portsmouth in November 2008 and crosses the line at Lizard Point in August 27th 2009. For nine long months Mike faced danger, fear, despondency, damages, storms and loneliness.

3:30 p.m.
Sur la trace de Farley
Director: Leanne Allison
Producer: ONF
Canada, 62 minutes, 2009, unpublished
Keen on the autobiographic adventure novels by canadian writer Farley Mowat, the Heuer-Allison family decides to meet the author in Novia Scotia. Leanne, Karsten and their toddler Zev crossed Canada from east to west canöeing, sailing and portaging to discover the landscapes of the novels and match them with their own experience.

5:00 p.m.
En plein cœur de la jungle

En plein cœur de la jungle de Jean-Gabriel Leynaud
envoyé par guilde_e. - Regardez plus de vidéo de sport et de sports extrêmes.
Director: Jean-Gabriel Leynaud
Coproducers: Sombrero & Co, No Penguins production, Voyage
France, 52 minutes, 2010, avant-première
After meeting in the North pole and completing together several expeditions in Arctic, Bettina Aller and Jean-Gabriel Leynaud decided to share the adventure with Emily and Christopher respectively 11 and 14 years old. The film shows the family journey in the deep heart of the Papuan jungle following a tribe still totally cut off from the rest of the world.
8:30 p.m.
Official opening of the festival
with Christine Martin deputy mayor to the town animation, festivals and attractiveness, Yves Rossy president of the film jury and Olivier Allard general delegate of the Guilde and the festival.

9:00 p.m.
On a marché sous le Pôle

On a marché sous le Pôle
envoyé par guilde_e. - Regardez plus de vidéo de sport et de sports extrêmes.
Director: Thierry Robert
Producer: Docside production
France, 52 minutes, 2010, avant-première
A handful of explorers plans to realize an expedition from the North pole to the Ellesmere Island, in the extreme north of Canada. For Ghislain, Emmanuelle, his companion and the others, Alban, Sam, Ben, Clement, Vincent, Pascal, the expedition is more initiatory than adventurous. An experience on the ice pack that will remain imprinted in their mind for ever.

10:00 p.m.
Tough Enough

Extrait film Tough Enough
envoyé par guilde_e. - Regardez plus de vidéo de sport et de sports extrêmes.
Director: Laurent Triay
Producer: Work Less Climb More
France, 48 minutes, 2009, unpublished
Arnaud Petit, Stéphanie Bodet, Sylvain Millet and Laurent Triay fly to Madagascar to ascent the 10 pitch route of the "Tough Enough" a 400 m wall which can be considered as the toughest free wall in earth. The film also focuses on the beauty of the valley and the gentleness of its inhabitants.

Friday, November 26

9:30 a.m.
America, la légende de l'Ouest
Directors: Laurent Granier, Megan Son and Philippe Lansac
Coproducers : GEDEON programmes, Voyage
France, 52 minutes, 2009
Two centuries after the first wild west conquest, Megan Son, Laurent Granier and Philippe Lanzac followed in the footsteps of explorers Lewis and Clark who, between 1804 and 1806, for the first time ever, led a French-American expedition in north America from the east coast to the Pacific ocean. Hiking, canoeing, riding and trekking the three modern frontier men explored these wild territories.

10:30 a.m.
Trango

Trango
envoyé par guilde_e. - Plus de vidéos de sport professionnelle et amateur. Director: Denis Roy
Producers: Totem Pole productions and Chrysalide studio
France, 52 minutes, 2010, avant-première
The Great Trango tower (6.239 m) is located in the Karakoram mountain range in the extreme north of Pakistan. A European team including Pole Elisa Kubarska and David Kaszlikowski, British Jerry Gore and Gaz Parry and French Pierre Muller and Denis Roy will try to free climb the Eternal Flame, a 1.100 meter high route considered as one of the most beautiful and hardest ways in the world.

11:30 a.m.

L'extraordinaire tournée du facteur Maignan
envoyé par guilde_e. - Découvrez les dernières vidéos de sport.
L'extraordinaire tournée du facteur Maignan
Director: Patrick Soulabaille
Coproducers: Bleu Iroise, France Télévisions
France, 52 minutes, 2009
Alain Maignan undertakes a single-handed non stop round the world sail. Postman in Brittany as a living he is a sailor in the heart. He saves money and days off for the journey. Fighting in the "Furious Fifties", he worries not to be back in time for the mail delivery. The film shows 185 days of the life of an ordinary man involved in an extraordinary adventure.

2:30 p.m.
Birdman of the Karakoram
Director and producer: Alun Hughes
Whales, 65 minutes, 2009, unpublished
For 20 years, John Silvester, one of the best paragliding pilots, a pioneer of extreme altitude flights, fascinated by the concentration of peaks over 8000 meters in height, has kept coming in the Karakoram range, located in the northern part of Pakistan. In order to understand what high altitude paragliding in untouched atmospheres really means for John, Director Alan Hughes embarks on a tandem flight with him.

3:45 p.m.
Papouasie, enfer et contre tout
Director: Christine Tournadre
Coproducers: GEDEON programmes, Planète, IRD
France, 52 minutes, 2010, avant-première
Laurent Pouyaud, French geneticist (IRD) and his team fly to Papua New Guinea. They enter deep in the rain forest looking for new species of rainbow fish. The known varieties looked forward to by aquariophilists and worldwide museums are endangered.

5:00 p.m.
Katia, au plus près du ciel
Directors: Nicolas Grimard and Adrien Gemonet
Producer: System TV
France, 52 minutes, 2009
Driven by the urge to go beyond her own limits and her love of wide spaces, Katia Lafaille goes to Argentina and tries to reach the Aconcagua 6.962 m, the highest peak in South America. Through the exhausting and heavy going trek in the Andes Cordillera, Katia, as an ultimate homage to her late husband, discovers high altitude adventure.

9:00 p.m.
Dans les yeux des requins

Dans les yeux des requins
envoyé par guilde_e. - Foot, rugby, surf et encore plus de sports en vidéo.
Director: Jérôme Espla
Producer: Poisson lune productions
France, 26 minutes, 2010, avant-première
Pierre Frolla is a recordman of free diving. When he was a child, sharks and the deep seas were his phobias. Free diving have helped him get rid of his fear of depth but sharks still terrorize him. Encouraged by a friend, he flies to South Africa, to fight his tormenting anguish in the very middle of the "realm of the tiger-sharks. This face-to-face encounter, without a cage, shall much knock about his terrors.

9:40 p.m.
A prayer for the windhorse
Director: John Murray
Producer: Crossing the Line films
Ireland, 73 minutes, 2010
Every year, villagers living high on the Tibet-Nepal border call on the Windhorse to give them the courage and stamina to undertake a journey through some of the wildest mountain terrain in the Himalaya. We follow Kharma Tshering and his family through their yearly adventure, a race against time and weather to join their winter territories.

Saturday, November 27

9:30 a.m.
Bonjour les morses
Director: Antonio Fischetti
Producers: CNRS Images with the participation of Charlie Hebdo and IPEV
France, 55 minutes, 2009, unpublished
Two CNRS scientists, Isabelle Charrier and Thierry Aubin, study vocal communication between walrus in Arctic. But in the remote north, nothing is easy. Due to bad weather conditions, they are trapped by the ice pack on top of an iceberg. Without any shelter and food, they just hope for rescue.

10:30 a.m.
À la conquête des sommets arctiques
Director: Jochen Schmoll
Coproducers: Medi cine, ZDF
Germany, 43 minutes, 2009
Climb lovers, Stephan Glowacz and his team, search the remaining untouched glaciers. Their challenge: to be the first to climb a wall rising up above the Quernbitter fjord, north east of the Baffin Island. The expedition went off in drastic conditions in the middle of a country that is only known by aerial photographs.

11:30 a.m.
Voyage à la lisière de l'utopie
Director: Loic Tanant
Producer: Bout à bout production
France, 20 minutes, 2009, unpublished
Stephan who used to work in snowboard improvement research is now implied in human powered means of transportation. On September 28th, 2008, following 5 years of research, he aims at flying across the Channel in a pedal driven airship. For eight hours and 54 kilometers long just above the water, he will have to deal with the weather conditions and sea traffic.

12:00 a.m.
La chevalière du ciel
Producer: Sirpa Air
France, 7 minutes, 2010, not in competition
In November 2009, Virginie Guyot becomes the leader of the "patrouille de France" (French air force aerobatics team). She is the first woman in the world to lead an aerobatics team.

2:30 p.m.
Expédition Kachgar, sur les traces de l'or bleu
Directors: Geoffroy and Loïc de La Tullaye
Producers: BIGLO productions with the participation of France Télévisions
France, 52 minutes, 2010, not in competition
For five months, riding their sidecar motorcycle, Geoffroy and Loïc will travel along the "Silk Routes" from Kachgar to Paris. For eight years, they have shared a common passion for water and they now will make us discover the importance of trade in the civilization development and the impact of the global exchanges on water ressources.

3:50 p.m.
Sur les traces de Tintin, Tintin au Tibet
Director: Florence Tran
Coproducters: GEDEON programmes, Arte, Moulinsart SA
France, 52 minutes, 2010, not in competition
Twenty years after meeting Tchang, Hergé loses the trail of his friend taken in the turmoil of war. He would like to find him but fails. This is why Tintin shows up in the Himalayan slopes, searching after Tchang, victim of an air crash. This tale dealing with friendship is a turning point in the Hergé's works. For the 80th birthday of the heroe, we go back to Tibet looking for Tchang.

5:00 p.m.
Official announcement of the prize list
With Christine Martin deputy mayor to the town animation, festivals and attractiveness, Yves Rossy president of the film jury, Sylvain Tesson president of the book Jury, and Hubert de Chevigny, President of the Guilde.

The festival jury will attribute:
“Toison d'Or'' of the aventure film (endowed by the town of Dijon)
Jury's special prize
Jean-Marc Boivin Prize
Dijon young jury's prize (endowed by Dijon's Chapitre bookshop, and awarded by 6 young of Dijon primary schools)
Young director prize
Price of the audience of the off festival
“Toison d'or” for the adventure book (distinction for the best adventure book of the year)
“Toison d'or” for the adventurer of the year (highest distinction for a personal adventure).
Alain Bombard prize (It rewards an exceptional adventure with an educational dimension).
Peter Bird/SPB trophy (endowed by SPB, the trophy rewards perseverance and tenacity in adventure).

All prizes shall be endowed by "la Confrérie du Tastevin".

8:30 p.m.
Projection of the 2010 films rewarded.

The program may be modified.

Click here to see the Darcy movie theatre program !