The Eight Mountains

The Eight Mountains
The Eight Mountains
	Release poster
Italian	Le otto montagne
Directed by	Felix van Groeningen; Charlotte Vandermeersch;
Screenplay by	Felix van Groeningen; Charlotte Vandermeersch;
Based on	Le otto montagne; by Paolo Cognetti
Produced by	Mario Gianani; Lorenzo Gangarossa;
Starring	Luca Marinelli; Alessandro Borghi;
Cinematography	Ruben Impens
Edited by	Nico Leunen
Music by	Daniel Norgren
Production; companies	Wildside; Rufus; Menuetto; Pyramide Productions; Vision Distribution;
Distributed by	Vision Distribution (Italy); Kinepolis Film Distribution (Belgium); Pyramide Films (France);
Release dates	18 May 2022 (Cannes); 14 December 2022 (Belgium); 21 December 2022 (France); 22 December 2022 (Italy);
Running time	147 minutes
Countries	Italy; Belgium; France;
Language	Italian
Box office	$11.4 million

The Eight Mountains (Italian: Le otto montagne) is a 2022 drama film co-directed by Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch [nl], who co-adapted the screenplay from the novel of the same name by Paolo Cognetti. The film depicts a friendship between two men who spend their childhood together in a remote Alpine village and reconnect later as adults. The title is a reference to the concept in Buddhism and ancient Indian cosmology that the world is composed of nine mountains and eight seas, specifically eight concentric circular mountain ranges separated from one another by eight seas, with the ninth and tallest mountain, Mount Meru, at the center.^[3]

The film premiered in competition at the 75th Cannes Film Festival on 18 May 2022, where it won the Jury Prize tying with EO.^[4] The next year it was awarded the David di Donatello for Best Film.^[5]

^ "The Eight Mountains". Irish Film Classification Office. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
^ "The Eight Mountains (2022)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
^ "Nine mountains and eight seas". Tibetan Buddhist Encyclopedia. 22 April 2014. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
^ "The 75th Festival de Cannes winners' list". festival-cannes.com. 28 May 2022. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
^ "David di Donatello, miglior film "Le Otto Montagne"". Rai News. 11 April 2023. Retrieved 11 April 2023.

[1] "The Eight Mountains". Irish Film Classification Office. Retrieved 19 April 2023.

[BOM-2] "The Eight Mountains (2022)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 30 June 2023.

[3] "Nine mountains and eight seas". Tibetan Buddhist Encyclopedia. 22 April 2014. Retrieved 19 May 2023.

[4] "The 75th Festival de Cannes winners' list". festival-cannes.com. 28 May 2022. Retrieved 24 April 2023.

[5] "David di Donatello, miglior film "Le Otto Montagne"". Rai News. 11 April 2023. Retrieved 11 April 2023.

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The Eight Mountains
Release poster

Italian	Le otto montagne

Directed by	Felix van Groeningen Charlotte Vandermeersch
Screenplay by	Felix van Groeningen Charlotte Vandermeersch
Based on	Le otto montagne by Paolo Cognetti
Produced by	Mario Gianani Lorenzo Gangarossa
Starring	Luca Marinelli Alessandro Borghi
Cinematography	Ruben Impens
Edited by	Nico Leunen
Music by	Daniel Norgren
Production companies	Wildside Rufus Menuetto Pyramide Productions Vision Distribution
Distributed by	Vision Distribution (Italy) Kinepolis Film Distribution (Belgium) Pyramide Films (France)
Release dates	18 May 2022 (2022-05-18) (Cannes) 14 December 2022 (2022-12-14) (Belgium) 21 December 2022 (2022-12-21) (France) 22 December 2022 (2022-12-22) (Italy)
Running time	147 minutes^[1]
Countries	Italy Belgium France
Language	Italian
Box office	$11.4 million^[2]