Adventurers, extreme explorers, great traveling athletes, pioneers… The Écrans de l’aventure festival – of which Dive in! is a partner – pays tribute to the men and women who push their limits and live extraordinary adventures. From October 5 to 8, 19 documentary films tracing the journeys of these modern adventurers were screened for the public and the festival jury.
During this 26th edition: 16 films in competition and the presence of the majority of the filmmakers and explorers, 16 stories of adventurers setting out to conquer the sea, of far-off territories, rock, ice, or the sky. Noteworthy is the presence of Bertrand Piccard, pilot of the Solar Impulse, who achieved the first solar-powered flight around the world between 2015 and 2016. He presented the film recounting his adventure Solar Impulse, the impossible journey around the world, produced by Stéphane Millière.
Three films were presented out of competition: The Stranger and the Peul Child by Vincent Hanrion, White October, on the summits of the revolution by Christophe Raylat following the adventures of Sylvain Tesson, and the documentary by director Jérôme Espla, Saint-Exupéry, from Clouds to Depths. This film retraces the adventure of a team of divers, journalists, and historians immersing themselves in the Mediterranean to uncover the secrets of the disappearance of the French writer. Luc Vanrell, who discovered the wreck of Saint-Exupéry’s P-38, spoke at the end of the screening. He signed in advance his latest book: Saint-Exupéry, Revelations on His Disappearance.
The official opening of the festival was announced on Thursday, October 5, in the presence of the president of the film jury, Anne Quéméré. The Breton navigator, accustomed to solo crossings, was accompanied to enjoy the documentaries by Christine Tournadre, documentary filmmaker, director Alain Rastoin, adventurer engineer Corentin de Chatelperron, and the speleologist Olivier Testa. They announced the awards on Saturday, October 7, for this 26th edition. The book jury, chaired by writer Louis Gouraud, awarded the adventure book prize.2017 Awards:
Golden Fleece of the Adventure Film : Into Twin Galaxies – a Greenland Epic (Germany-Austria)
Audience Award : Into Twin Galaxies – a Greenland Epic (Germany-Austria)Ushuaïa TV/Écrans de l’Aventure Award : Three Chords of Saas and then France, the Clash of Two Worlds.
Alain Bombard Award : The Afghan horsemen, in the footsteps of Joseph Kessel in Afghanistan.
Jean-Marc Boivin Award : Paradise Lost.
Special Jury Prize : The Weekend Sailor (Mexico).
The 5 young people of the children’s municipal council of the city of Dijon chose to award the youth prize to the film Three Chords of Saas and then France, the Clash of Two Worlds. Trois saa et puis la France, le choc de deux mondes.
The Golden Fleece of the Adventurer of the Year is awarded to the scientific team of Centre Terre (Patagonia) that we discovered in the film The Robinsons of the Unknown Island of Patagoniaobinsons de l’île inconnue de Patagonie.
The Book Prize is awarded to the book Around the Caucasus, Conversation with a Horse by Clara Arnaud (Gaïa Editions, June 2017) and a special mention is given to the book Ice Robinson, An Adventure at the End of the World to Save the Planet, by Emmanuel Hussenet, Les Arènes Editions, May 2017.
Margot Harty