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Basalt Island

Cinéma Vox Chamonix

CINEMA THEATER 2 (FR)

Screening on Tuesday 14 June

The evening starts at 8pm

En compétition

Summary

For the past twenty years, a small rock lost in the Indian Ocean has been home to a community of prolific and incredibly successful climbers (both in the natural environment and on international competition circuits).

We travel to meet them on Reunion Island.

We try to understand how they were able to transform what, at first sight seems to be a weakness (heat, humidity, often grainless rock, island isolation) into a strength making Reunion a real rock climbing destination.

A vertical journey of discovery on this exceptional island.

Director

Benoît Regord & Albéric Lemercier
With
Country

France
Release date

2022
Duration

27 minutes

Bande annonce

The choice of the festival

The island of Reunion, its rum, its green cirques, its capricious volcano, its sharks… Benoît Regord and Albéric Lemercier take us on a journey of discovery of a little known side of the island: its climbing routes. Basalt has the reputation for not being an interesting rock for climbers. The Reunionese prove the contrary and show us their secret spots. Long routes, bouldering, incredibly aesthetic basalt rock formations, black sandy beaches to end the day… All this to the sound of maloya singers, the famous blues from Reunion. A film filmed with virtuosity and screened for the first time at Chamonix film festival.