{"id":57362,"date":"2024-07-24T18:34:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T17:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinehill.eu\/cinehill-day-zero-stipe-bozic-and-hgss-delnice-fill-up-forest-park-golubinjak\/"},"modified":"2024-07-24T18:34:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T17:34:23","slug":"cinehill-day-zero-stipe-bozic-and-hgss-delnice-fill-up-forest-park-golubinjak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinehill.eu\/en\/cinehill-day-zero-stipe-bozic-and-hgss-delnice-fill-up-forest-park-golubinjak\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinehill Day Zero: Stipe Bo\u017ei\u0107 and HGSS Delnice fill up forest park Golubinjak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On day zero, in the Golubinjak forest park, the festival opens with the guest of honour, the famous alpinist, travel writer and film director Stipe Bo\u017ei\u0107.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n

A Q&A with the audience was followed up by a screening of the documentary feature Dhaulagiri Express<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, one of over 120 films in Stipe Bo\u017ei\u0107\u2019s filmmaking catalogue.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cSome people are simply magnets\u201d, said Igor Mirkovi\u0107, Cinehill\u2019s Director. He was proved right, as cars poured in to entrance of the Golubinjak forest park. As seats filled up, the remaining visitors gathered to see and hear the famous alpinist, while fallen tree trunks, forest rocks and heaps of leaves served as chairs for the curious onlookers.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cThis is nothing, we used to climb up here when we were kids, only we didn\u2019t have any safety ropes\u201d, joked the audience from Delnice, quietly commenting on the eye-catching performance that kicked off the program. From the cliff near the stage, members of the Croatian Mountain Rescue Service Delnice simulated the descent of an injured climber. Distorted voices from walkie-talkies, dexterous climbers tens of metres up high, and stretchers suspended on swinging ropes gave the impression of rescuers in heart-stopping action. Only it wasn\u2019t film, these heroes are very real. The Croatian Mountain Rescue Service was created in the area of Gorski Kotar, out of the local mountain experts\u2019 desire to help those who find themselves in danger in the mountains. <\/p>\n\n

\u201cYou become gentler, so to speak, in everyday life, when you go through such experiences.\u201d \u2013 mentioned Stipe Bo\u017ei\u0107, explaining what makes him make such sacrifices. \u201cIt is not easy to explain this to people who do not share, or at least not to that extent, the passion for alpinism\u201d, remarked Igor Mirkovi\u0107, hosting the event. Stipe also recalled how his Mom would scold him and his Dad hid his climbing boots when he ascended the peaks as a young man. Of course, that didn\u2019t stop Stipe Bo\u017ei\u0107. When he earned his first money as a deckhand, as soon as he got off the ship, he recounts, he walked into a \u201cmountaineering equipment boutique\u201d. That\u2019s when his serious mountaineering days began.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cIn the villages around Mount Everest, we couldn\u2019t buy any extra potatoes\u201d, said Stipe Bo\u017ei\u0107 recounting just some of the obstacles in preparing such an expedition. He mentioned how different it was from today\u2019s upsides of commercial mountaineering. When he was 27 years old, he became the 85th person to reach the top of the world. He also recalled how incident in which he saved a local man\u2019s life. After surviving a bear attack, he stitched up his head, and the man gave him two eggs as a sign of thanks. \u201cYou can\u2019t even imagine what a big thing it was back then.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

Stipe Bo\u017ei\u0107 also talked about skiing in sand dunes, the salty sea of the North Pole and its freshwater glaciers and the point of the globe where it is zero hours and everywhere is south. Luckily for us, this charismatic, creative and enthusiastic person has poured his countless lived experiences onto film. <\/p>\n\n

On Thursday, 25 July, Cinehill is screening his films Reticent Wall<\/em><\/strong><\/a> and Taklamakan<\/em><\/strong><\/a> at 15:30 <\/strong>at the Circus Fellini cinema on Petehovac, while Stipe Bo\u017ei\u0107 will once again be present for the screening.<\/p>\n