Paola Nessi

"W for Walter," directed by Rossana Podestà and Paola Nessi, is the last gesture of love that Rossana, who passed away in December 2013, offered to Walter Bonatti, recounting with intense sweetness and simplicity the life of the great mountaineer and explorer. Walter Bonatti and Rossana Podestà met when both were at the end of their respective careers. She was a renowned international actress, he was a beloved explorer of distant lands, and, above all, the man who shaped the history of world mountaineering. Two extremely different lives that, as Rossana recounts in the film, slowly slid into each other, creating an unbreakable bond.

Mirella Tenderini is a writer, translator, discoverer of literary treasures from around the world, and a mountain woman. In the 1960s, she managed several refuges in Switzerland and Italy with her husband, the renowned mountaineer Luciano Tenderini. Mirella is immense, and this documentary dedicated to her retraces her intense life. A life perhaps a little uncomfortable, made up of many chapters and many turning points. A life in which each of us can perhaps find a little piece of our own history.