Nuno Escudeiro | Portugal, 2023, 37'
Death of a Mountain is a testament to the contemporary french-italian mountain border. Throughout the film, we borrow the eyes of amateur filmmakers that portrayed this mountain ever since the invention of short-format film; we lean on the words of a woman who tells us of her mountain, her connection to this territory from her birth to its disappearance; we see the territory change through the passing of the years. The woman dwells on memories of childhood to escape the present, a war that spreads on her mountain and on which she is forced to take part. She feels betrayed by the idea that mountains live forever. Nonetheless, she fights. Where do mountains go if we allow them to die?
Nuno Escudeiro (1986, Tomar, Portugal) studied Media Studies in the University of Aveiro and Documentary Film Directing in Zelig, School for Documentary in Bolzano, Italy. His diploma film Moon Europa (2016) was screened in dok.fest Munich 2017 and indie Lisboa 2017. His feature documentary The Valley, a french-italian co-production by Miramonte Films and Point-du-jour has been awarded the Emerging International filmmaker award upon its premiere at Hotdocs Toronto and was afterwards screened at BFI London Film Festival, among several other festivals.
