Italian Cinema Forum: The Eight Mountains

Join a discussion of the visually and emotionally striking 2022 mountain film based on the novel by Paolo Cognetti. Turin based Bruno encounters Pietro on a holiday in the Alps. This idyllic, childhood experience is then played out as the two boys grow to maturity and continue their increasingly complex relationship on the side of several spectacular mountains and deep within their valleys.

The convenor of the Italian Cinema Forum, Dr Mark Nicholls, is Senior Lecturer in Cinema Studies at the University of Melbourne where he has taught film since 1993. Mark has worked as a film journalist for ABC Radio and The Age and has a list of over twenty stage credits as a playwright, performer, producer, and director.