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Only 16 of the 45 passengers on board Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 survived the 1972 crash. Their story of survival and sacrifice is the subject of an Oscar-tipped drama now on Netflix. Annabel Nugent recounts the unbelievable true events that inspired it

The Old Christians rugby team was traveling to Chile for a match when their plane crashed, stranding them in the mountains where they faced snow storms, avalanches and starvation, forcing them to eat the flesh of those who had died.

They had to eat the bodies of their dead friends to survive. Now their story has been made into a film

Five films from international competition category to be screened on 3rd day of 28th IFFK. Evil Does Not Exist (anti-capitalist/environmentalist allegory), Achilles (socio-political turmoil in Iran), Sermon to the Birds (Davud/Sura under siege), Sunday (old couple's life disrupted), Prison in the Andes (criminals fear losing lives after inmate's TV interview).…

In 1972, Nando Parrado was travelling with family and friends when his plane went down in the mountains. What followed was months of horror, ingenuity – and incredible sacrifice

Dressed up in colorful, multilayered skirts, a group of 20 Indigenous Bolivian women have been climbing the Andes peaks for the past eight years, working as guides for tourists

Society of the Snow is an Oscar favorite that tells the harrowing true story of plane crash survivors stranded in the Andes for months.

On a crisp, sunny day high in the Peruvian Andes, two German judges gaze across a mountain lake to the towering white glaciers in the distance. Dark spots are visible on the pristine ice and, in quiet moments, the cold wind carries the sounds of creaking and cracking.

Marco has swapped the Andes mountains for remote village life in Sussex