Carte Blanche 2025 at the Cervino CineMountain Film Festival

Each year, a carte blanche is dedicated to a foreign film festival. This carte blanche is a collaboration that has been in place for 12 years. It’s an exchange of experience and communication, as well as an opportunity to showcase our respective events to a different audience.

So in 2025, we’ll be hosting the Cervino CineMountain festival, which takes place in Valtournenche and Breuil-Cervinia (Italy). This year, it will be held from 26 July to 2 August 2025. Luisa Montrosset, who co-directs the festival with Luca Bich, will be representing the festival on our jury. In turn, a volunteer from our organisation will be present in July/August.

The Cervino CineMountain Film Festival is aimed at film buffs, mountaineers and mountain enthusiasts in general. It is also aimed at fans of art house films and extreme sports. In addition to the film competition for new mountain films (from the last 3 years) and a special section dedicated to the narrative, genres and languages of mountain cinema, the festival also offers a varied programme of parallel events devoted to literature, music, the performing arts, gastronomy and sports. The CCM aims to raise awareness of the beauty and vulnerability of mountains, the diversity of mountain cultures and (the consequences of) sporting, tourism and land-use activities in and around mountains. The CCM stands out from other mountain film festivals for its historic ‘Festival Grand Prix’, awarded to the best of the films that have won prizes at the 26 other festivals run by the AIFM, the International Alliance for Mountain Film, for the events produced exclusively for its programming and for its Filmontagna spin-off, a series of over 30 film screenings in the most remote valleys of the Valle d’Aosta. It is a founding member of the International Alliance for Mountain Film (IAMF).