INDOMITUS Festival of Adventure, Nature and Conservation - Barcelona

From April 16 to 18, the 5th edition of the INDOMITUS Adventure and Nature Festival will take place at Cines Girona, located at Calle de Girona, 175 in Barcelona.

It will be three days of talks and screenings about expeditions in wild places, the natural world, and conservation stories. This year's participants include: Peter Mather (photographer), Zoltán Török (documentary filmmaker), Edgar Madrenys (photographer), Alistair Lee (filmmaker), Marta Bretó and Tato Rosés (adventure photographers), Quino Melchor (mountain biker), Lazkano (artist), and Pablo Tosco (documentary filmmaker).

The 5th INDOMITUS Festival is sponsored by the EGM photographic laboratory and has the support of Vanguard (optics and nature company), Travel Ponent (travel agency), Fem Turisme.cat (website of cultural activities), Mochileros Podcast (adventure and mountain podcast), Can Feixes (organic winery), Liofilizado & Co. (freeze-dried food) and Montphoto (photography festival).

Program

Thursday, April 16

The INDOMITUS Festival will begin with "The Sahel: A Cartography of Its Crises." In this presentation, documentary filmmaker Pablo Tosco, from Sonda Internacional, will discuss living conditions in the Sahel, the means of subsistence, and the resilience of its population.

The opening session will continue with Peter Mather's film, Kings of the North, which tells the story of a man and his best friend's quest for one of the most fascinating stories in northern Canada: the polar bones.

The day will close with the screening of The Asgard Project, by Alistair Lee, an ambitious challenge that documents the first free ascent of the North Tower of Mount Asgard, on Baffin Island, in the Canadian Arctic.

Friday, April 17

Friday will begin with a screening of Of on Lifetime, by Jerome Tanon, a stunning visual narrative with spectacular images of Antarctica that follows a family of snowboarders.

Next, Tato Rosés and Quino Melchor will present Sierras de Huesca, a mountain bike tour through some of Spain's landscapes that have been forgotten since the mid-20th century.

The day will conclude with My Sweden, by Zoltán Török. This moving documentary explores the evolution of the Swedish natural environment over time, in an odyssey filled with extraordinary encounters with wildlife.

Saturday, April 18

The day will begin with the presentation "El cant del bosc" (The Song of the Forest), by photographer Edgar Madrenys. The capercaillie, a relict species from the last Ice Age, is a unique animal that still inhabits our forests.

Next , Natura Fugit, by the artist Jesús Mari Lazkano, will be projected, a work that shows the transformation of the landscape over time, shaped by human behavior.

The INDOMITUS Festival will close this edition with the film Wild Alaska, Between Nature and Oil, by Marta Bretó and Tato Rosés. Filmed in the western Arctic of Alaska, the documentary portrays the extraordinary biodiversity of the Utukok River, currently under constant threat from human exploitation.

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