Ascension to Ararat – trailer ENG

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with Felipe and Nico Valsesia
a film by Alessandro Beltrame
screenplay by Roberta Orsenigo

photographer Dino Bonelli

In the film „Ascension to Ararat“, Novara athlete Nico Valsesia confronts the imposing Turkish mountain. A different „From0To“, where the sporting adventure gives way to a life experience with an unexpected ending.

May 2021 – The film „Ascension to Ararat” retraces the 500-kilometer long ride of Novara ultra runner and cyclist Nico Valsesia from the Black Sea to Doğubeyazıt. Starting from the Turkish city with his son Felipe Valsesia, Nico then tries to reach the top of Mount Ararat, the legendary mountain where Noah’s Ark is said to have come to a rest after the Great Flood.
Nico and Felipe arrive in Turkey after a journey of over 4,000 kilometers through the heart of Central Europe, an experience they shared with video maker and director Alessandro Beltrame and photographer Dino Bonelli.
But the sports expedition soon turns into a personal experience that involves all the participants, especially with the arrival of a new protagonist which gives the Turkish adventure a strong turn, transforming certainties into questions and questions into new and unsettling answers.
„Ascension to Ararat“ is a film that tells a different story from the other „From0To“ adventures done by Nico Valsesia, no longer based only on the achievement of an endurance record but on the experience of travel, where the real conquests are unexpected encounters which are able to show us different paths.
Against the wind and against any convention.