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.

[5] In the summer of 1984, Pietro, an 11-year-old from Turin, and his mother Francesca rent a house in a village called Grana in the Italian Alps.

There they meet Bruno, the last kid remaining in the village; estranged from his parents, he lives with his uncles and aunt.

Pietro, has a complex reaction to this idea which he identifies as believing Bruno should not be uprooted from his world, and protests the decision.

Eventually he finds Bruno in the mountains where his father has left a pile of rocks and wood on a slope intending to build a house.

Bruno plans to restore his uncle's pasture and continue living the life of a mountaineer, and encourages Pietro to follow his dream and write a book.

One day back in Nepal, Pietro receives a call from Bruno who tells him that his pasture has been taken away and that Lara and their daughter is living with her family.

One day, Lara calls Pietro and tells him that a snowstorm buried the house and Bruno is nowhere to be found, possibly dead.

(This is related to an earlier discussion of the Nepalese “sky burial” ritual, where the deceased are left on the mountains for animals to consume).

[9][10] It had a limited theatrical release in USA by Janus Films on 28 April 2023,[11] in France on 21 December 2022, and in Italy the following day.

The website's consensus reads: "Patient, profound and sometimes a bit ponderous, The Eight Mountains reaches breathtaking peaks in its careful observance of an intimate friendship.