FREE FILM: SOMMET DES DIEUX

Date: Wednesday, November 18, 6:00 pm

Venue: UCI School of Humanities
Humanities Gateway (HG), Room 1070
611 Humanities Ct, Irvine, CA 92617

Open to the public - no ticket required. First come, first served.

Film: "Le Sommet des Dieux' (Summit of the Gods) (2021)
Presented by Ghada Mourad, UCI professor

In French with English subtitles

Part of the French Film Series - French animation

Based on a manga series by Jiro Taniguchi, the film follows a Japanese photojournalist obsessed with uncovering the truth behind an old mountaineering mystery.

Rotten Tomatoes gives it a 100% positive rating

A breathtaking adaptation of the manga series by renowned manga artist Jirô Taniguchi and writer Baku Yumemakura, THE SUMMIT OF THE GODS follows a young Japanese photojournalist, Fukamachi, who finds a camera that could change the history of mountaineering. It leads him to the mysterious Habu, an outcast climber believed missing for years. Fukamachi enters a world of obsessive mountaineers hungry for impossible conquests on a journey that leads him, step by step, towards the summit of the gods.