Anwar (Lleno de luz)

The Spanish mountaineer and alpinist Alex Txikon, who is well known for his winter expeditions, stars in this documentary in which he creates a sort of logbook with the collaboration of the EKI Foundation, which is dedicated to promoting solidarity and sustainable projects.

On January 1, 2021, Txikon sets out to climb the eighth highest mountain in the world: the Manaslu I, located in west-central Nepal. This becomes the first non-polluting ascent ever seen, as it is powered by solar panels, which according to the Paris Agreements allows to reduce the energy footprint.

When he starts his second stop, he will arrive in Newton, Sierra Leone, where the climber will get to know first-hand about the important work of the foundation in the country, which enables hospitals and schools to become energy self-sufficient by providing solar energy systems. This inspires him to shoot the documentary, to give visibility to the work they do and with one special goal in mind: to try to bring the magnificent idea to the Günter Mountain School, a school in the Diamer Valley, in Pakistan, in the hope of bringing them light and thus allowing to unite two very different but very similar cultures.

Shot in the middle of the pandemic, the documentary is full of work, solidarity and renewable energy with locations in Nepal, Pakistan, and Sierra Leone. Rosa García Loire debuts both as director and scriptwriter, and counts with the work of Ignacio Maquirriain and Raúl de la Fuente in the direction of photography.

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