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Thinking like a Mountain
Columbia, Germany 2018 | 93 min | engl. subtitled
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In Switzerland, traditional charcoal burning is still a trade. Each summer, smoke rises out of the charcoal piles, or kilns. The procedure takes five weeks. The meticulous stacking of the wood, working with the fire, the poking and shoveling, the hidden process in which the transformation of wood into charcoal seems alchemistic – all of this still has an air of magic to this day.
The filmmaker Robert Müller visited the charcoal burners in Entlebuch in Central Switzerland for the last five years. He offers a glimpse of a hard but fascinating world in this captivating film with fantastic images and precise acoustics that match the accuracy of the working method of making charcoal. Most importantly, it is a well-rounded portrait of the different people involved in this trade. There is much silence, but also laughter, drinking, smoking, and cursing.
Robert Müller: “I learned about a way of living where family, profession, beliefs and, the world stay closely connected: the intense labor in nature and the adventure that demands everything of you, physically and mentally.”
Best camera, Swiss Film Award 2018; Best director, Innerschweizer Filmpreis 2019; Jury Prize, Trento Film Festival 2018