Programma 2025

CORTALP 2025 is the mountain short film festival, founded and promoted by the Politecnico di Milano with the central CAI (Italian Alpine Club), now in its third edition and aimed at young designers from Italian universities. It focuses on the themes of the mountains and their relationship with culture, sport, and the environment. It is organized by the ALPI+MILANO APS (Social Promotion Association) in collaboration with the Lombardy Region.In addition to a festival of mountain 'shorts' selected by the CAI Film Library, it includes the "Manlio Armellini" Award, dedicated to original works by university students, beginning with those from the School of Design of the Politecnico di Milano and from the Politecnico di Torino, guest of this edition. Named in memory of the patron of the Salone del Mobile of Milan, a great mountain enthusiast, it aims to stimulate the creativity and awareness of young people on the issues of the Highlands.

Event

20:00

Public Opening Festival 2025

Greetings

with the SABS Choir of Milan

Movie Award "Conf&Craft":
Section "Montagne di Mani"

presents Carlo Piccinato for the best
Mountain Artisans video

Guest

Valeria Margherita Mosca

Award "Manlio Armellini":
Section "Passion in Action"

presents Armida Armellini the best videos
from Politecnico di Milano

Guest

Michele Cucchi e Matteo Schena

Alpine Interlude

with SABS Choir of Milan

Special Award CAI:
Section "CAINSÙ"

presents President Montani the best
Club Alpino Italiano video

Guest

Agostino da Polenza

Special Award "Best Of"

Award for Best Video by the audience

Award from Alpi+Milano

Guests

CAI Eagle Team with Alessandro Gogna

Final Greetings

with SABS Choir of Milan

Guests

Agostino da Polenza

Internationally renowned mountaineer, Himalayan climber, and a major organizer and promoter of high-altitude scientific projects, has shared many exploratory projects on mountains around the world. In Nepal, at the foot of Everest, he conceived and built the “EvK2 Pyramid” of the CNR, of which he is President, known as the world’s highest center of excellence for research and the study of high-altitude medicine and climate change.

Valeria Margherita Mosca

Cultural anthropologist, expert in ethnobotany, hiking guide, researcher, and environmentalist. She believes in a mutualistic relationship with nature and seeks to live her life avoiding an anthropocentric point of view. She feels part of the biosphere and an expression of the natural world, to which she passionately and convincingly dedicates her work to promoting this culture.

Michele Cucchi

Charismatic mountain guide from Alagna Valsesia, Monte Rosa Group, where he lives and works, and collaborates with Cuore Attivo Monte Rosa, the non-profit organization of which he is a member, which works in Himalayan countries by providing expertise and jobs for the creation of schools and hospitals. He is also known as “the Roar of K2,” being the mountaineer who, 50 years after the first ascent, brought the Italian tricolor back to the summit.

CAI Eagle Team

Conceived by the Club Alpino Italiano and the Club Alpino Accademico Italiano together with the mountaineer Matteo Della Bordella, the project aims to nurture young interpreters of mountaineering and modern climbing through a three-year program and a final international expedition experience.The following will be present in the hall: Alessandra Prato – Dario Eynard – Matteo Sella – Riccardo Volpiano.

Location

The Testori Auditorium located inside the brand-new Palazzo Lombardia, a modern auditorium with spacious interiors, excellent acoustics, and fully equipped with the latest technologies, elegantly finished and suitable for a wide variety of uses. Press conferences, conventions, presentations, as well as screenings, musical events, and other types of events, can find here a functional and prestigious setting.

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Guests

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Happy Mountaineering

to All!