Discover the Off of the 27th edition of the International Adventure and Discovery Film Festival.
Sunday
14
April
Before the festival
With Priscilla Telmon and Sylvain Tesson
Le Splendid Cinema
18h30
Le Merveilleux
Booking at Tourisme Office
Enter the world of the mysterious through two short films.
The first film takes us on a sailing trip around the labyrinthine geography of the Celtic coast, while the other invites us under the tree canopy where the powerful, invisible symphony of nature is constantly being played out. As Heraclitus said, “Nature loves to hide.” Only a poet photographer can reveal it.
« La Forêt des ombres » by Vincent Munier
20 mn
Produced by Kobalann & Musée des Confluences for the ‘En Forêt’ exhibition with Vincent Munier (until 27 April 2025)
The forest is a temple where the living columns sometimes murmur indistinct words. Baudelaire knew all about this. Vincent Munier has entered into the forest. It all looks familiar, but, in reality, it contains undreamed-of secrets. The famous photographer allows the world to rustle, nature to take root and the wildlife to brush up against him.
« Avec les Fées » by Priscilla Telmon
14 mn
Produced by Les Équateurs & Petites Planètes
Sylvain Tesson searches for fairies along the Celtic coast. What is a fairy? It is a facet of reality revealed by a certain way of looking at things. Open your eyes and you will be rewarded greatly.
Wednesday
17
April
Carte blanche Ushuaïa TV
With Franck Bruno, protagonist
Le Splendid Cinema
16h
L’Iceberg
| Durée | 70 min. |
| Edition | Ushuaïa TV |
For more than fifteen years, Frank Bruno has been surveying Greenland by all possible means on this land of ice and silence.
For several years, a small blue house has been his home, in the hamlet of Oqaatsut located more than three hundred and fifty kilometers north of the Arctic Circle. Made up of hunting families, 20 inhabitants for 140 dogs, life in the village is absolutely different from all other places on the planet. It took him a lot of time and patience to get adopted. Only ice and time are masters, a national motto that takes on its full meaning. Several months a year, he lives there, he takes his time there.
The exploding icebergs, the sea that suddenly freezes, the violent northern winds, the whales that come to gorge on krill, the extreme solitude, these are the daily lives that fascinate him. But life is made of paradox, to voluntarily escape this recluse life, each year he invites a group of amputees like him, to share a piece of his polar life.
Like an iceberg that only leaves a ninth of its mass above the surface of the ocean, Frank hides his wounds, his abandonments. In this opus he reveals himself to become this child who runs the world in search of his lost loves. We will also see the arrival of an atypical rope party which will attempt to climb Perserajuk which is the highest mountain in the region. Silences and glances will be the main players in this opus which pays homage to life, without filter.
This film retraces the atypical journey of a man who was able to get back up despite all his injuries. Homage to life, the power of sharing and the magnificence of the present moment.
Every day from 5 pm - HENRI OREILLER CONGRESS CENTER
Photographs from the film ‘Des baleines, des tortues et des Hommes’ can be viewed every evening in the marquee at the Henri Oreiller Congress Center from 5.00 pm.
Every day from 5 pm - HENRI OREILLER CONGRESS CENTER
Photographs from the film ‘Aux pays des brumes : un hiver Balte’ can be viewed every evening in the marquee at the Henri Oreiller Congress Center from 5.00 pm.
Sophie Planque will be signing her book ‘Aux pays des brumes : un hiver Balte’ on Wednesday and Thursday evenings in the festival bookshop.
Tuesday April 16th at 10 am - Aquasportif center swimming pool
During this poolside workshop, you’ll learn the techniques for preparing to freedive as well as breathing secrets from a multiple world freediving champion. The bravest can then put this advice into practice in the water at the end of the activity.
With Jean-Marc Barr.
at 10 pm - Henri Oreiller Congress center
Come and observe the stars with the protagonist and director of the film “Marche à l’étoile : Amérique du Sud”.
This event is subject to weather conditions.
Free sign-up required (from 7th April) at the Tourist Office or the festival bookshop. Limited availability.
Book sales will take place at the festival bookshop from Monday 15 to Thursday 18 April from 5.00 pm to 11.00 pm and also during book-signing sessions.
Wednesday
17
April
LITERARY BREAKFAST
Lucy Paltz
LE VAL D'ISÈRE HOTEL
At 9 am
LITERARY BREAKFAST with Lucy Paltz
Nées pour skier
| Auteur | Lucy Paltz |
Twenty-seven interwoven portraits of female skiers from all over the world, including competitors, freestylers, pioneers, activists, freeriders and globetrotters, all of whom have chosen their calling with great dedication. Lucy Paltz’s sensitive writing reveals the close bond they have forged with skiing and the mountains.
For this event, Lucy is inviting festival guests to a roundtable discussion on the place of women in the world of adventure and cinema.
Thursday
18
April
LITERARY BREAKFAST
Sylvain Tesson
LA SAVOYARDE HOTEL
At 9 am
LITERARY BREAKFAST with Sylvain Tesson
Avec Les Fées
| Auteur | Sylvain Tesson |
Summer had just begun when I set off to find fairies on the Atlantic coast. I don’t believe that they exist. There are no girls wearing tutus with dragonfly wings fluttering above the fountains. It’s a pity: modern humans can no longer see a world of fantasy. In the 12th century, even the lowliest shepherd walked among ghosts. We used to live amongst visions. Maeterlinck, a pale (and very forgotten) Belgian, once said, “How strange people are… Since the demise of fairies, they can’t see them at all and never wonder…”
