Festivalarchive

Christina Zurbrügg & Michael Hudecek

Following in the footsteps of Kyrgyzstan’s nomadic people and the ancient Silk Road, Thomas Delfino, Léa Klaue, and...

Camera Alpine Austria

Wundersames Kiental

Kiental in the Swiss Alps: though only a small village, it entered the history books with two historic events: Lenin...

Alpine Camera in Gold - Alpinism & Expeditions

Egoland

Ignasi López Fàbregas

20min

In this adventure-packed animated film, Marek Molek and Bruno Grassi are on the verge of reaching the summit of The...

Alpine Camera in Gold - Sports in Mountains- & Nature

Air Karakoram

Bertrand Delapierre

Long, arduous ascents are not what the seven friends have in mind as they set off from Karimabad in Pakistan to reach...

Alpine Camera in Gold - Nature & Environment

Kaktus Hotel

Yann Sochaczewski

In the south-western USA, an imposing figure towers skywards, arms outstretched. At first sight, the unmissable object...

Alpine Camera in Gold - People & Culture

Lynx Man

Juha Suonpää

80min

Finnisch / engl. UT

A Finnish equivalent of Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man, Hannu has a love and connection to nature that surpasses most....

Special Jury Award

My Phantom

Line van den Berg

Christina Zurbrügg & Michael Hudecek

Englisch / Engl. UT

My Phantom follows the intimate journey of Dutch alpinist Line van den Berg as she questions what it means to be a...

Audience Award

Wundersames Kiental

Ostgrönländisch, Polnisch / engl. UT

Kiental in the Swiss Alps: though only a small village, it entered the history books with two historic events: Lenin...

Honorable Mentions

Inussuk – The Way Home

Marcin Tomaszewski

16min

Inussuk is a type of sculpture created by the Inuit by arranging stones in such a way that their pile resembles a...

Todesfalle Haute Route

Frank Senn

90min

When seven of the ski mountaineers froze to death and their guide lost his life through a fall, a mere 400 metres from...

Burning the Flame

Peter Mortimer

Big wall free climbing masters Babsi and Jacopo seek their greatest challenge yet: a free ascent of “Eternal...

Die Färöer – Raue Schönheit im Atlantik

Lars Pfeiffer

The Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic are among Europe’s most remote regions. A unique culture has developed here...

Bärland

Henry M. Mix

The coasts of the Northern Asian Pacific are home to the largest number of bears on earth: brown bears, polar bears and...

Die Rückkehr der Auerochsen

Michael Schlamberger

Joaquin Azulay & Julian Azulay

It was 30,000 years ago that Stone Age hunters painted some of humankind’s oldest works of art. Hidden away in remote...

Movie overview 2023

Abriendo Camino – Opening the Path

Juan Miguel Ponce

46min

Spanisch / engl. UT

A Spanish women’s mountaineering team visits the Arabian Peninsula with an ambitious project: With their Abriendo...

African Territory II

107min

Englisch, Französisch, Portugiesisch, Spanisch / engl. UT

Part two of “African Territory”. Starting out in Cameroon and heading southwards, the Gauchos del Mar brothers...

Air Karakoram

Bertrand Delapierre

Sandra Lahnsteiner-Wagner

Long, arduous ascents are not what the seven friends have in mind as they set off from Karimabad in Pakistan to reach...

Aligned, Between the Sea and the Sky

34min

Englisch, Deutsch / engl. UT

Austrian freerider and filmmaker Sandra Lahnsteiner-Wagner takes us on a ski tour adventure in Norway’s majestic...

Auf der Jagd nach dem Augenblick

Mathias Peschta

Deutsch, Englisch, Niederländisch / engl. UT

Lukas Schäfer and Daniel Tschurtschenthaler from Südtirol are on the hunt for an elusive prey: the two nature...

Aufnahmen einer Wetterkamera

Bernhard Wenger

18min

A ski resort in the scenic Austrian Alps. A weather camera, installed to display majestic mountain panoramas, casually...

Bärland

Henry M. Mix

The coasts of the Northern Asian Pacific are home to the largest number of bears on earth: brown bears, polar bears and...

Beyond Everest

Théo Livet

72min

“You are young and athletic and I am old and athletic”. Thus says mountaineer and painter Marc Batard to his...

Bike2Eiger

Malte Roeper

The north face of the Eiger is the classic among Europe’s Alpine ascents. For elite mountain runner Philipp Reiter...

Bis zum letzten Tropfen

Harry Putz

32min

Faced with the unstoppable advance of hydropower, the last pristine rivers of the Alps are under threat. Nowhere is...

Brave Girl

Mark Pedri

8min

Told through the eyes of a 6-year-old climber who goes by the name of Brave Girl, this documentary captures the...

Bravo Marcel – The Century Climber

Hannes Tell

22min

Learning how to skateboard at 90 years of age, still climbing a 450 m multipitch at 95, still lead climbing at nearly...

Burning the Flame

Peter Mortimer

Brian Mathé, Morgan Monchaud

Big wall free climbing masters Babsi and Jacopo seek their greatest challenge yet: a free ascent of “Eternal...

Captains on El Cap

53min

Englisch, Französich / dt. UT

Seb Berthe dreams of climbing the Dawn Wall, the most difficult route in the world. But Seb has no intention to reach...

Cerro Torre Climb & Fly

Mario Heller

25min

Cerro Torre is a majestic mountain. Many are the legends surrounding its ascent. In January 2022, despite first having...

Chronoception

Guillaume Broust

54min

Following in the footsteps of Kyrgyzstan’s nomadic people and the ancient Silk Road, Thomas Delfino, Léa Klaue, and...

Creation Theory

Ben Sturgulewski

22min

In the Westfjords of Iceland, where mountains meet the sea, creativity finds its ultimate human expression: a surfer on...

Cross Tyrol

Paul Schweller

Deutsch / engl. UT

Cross Tyrol is a documentary of a ski traverse through the mountainous Austrian province of Tyrol. The crew of skiers...

Darkest Before Dawn

Alex Eggermont

19min

Peek into the world of Belgian climber Siebe Vanhee’s authentic, raw process of his first season climbing on...

Das Erbe der Inka – Die Brücke aus Gras

J. Michael Schumacher

Over 500 years ago, the Inca Empire stretched from the south of what is now Colombia all the ways to Chile. Its...

Das Tote Gebirge – Wunderwelt des Lebens

Franz Hafner

Framed by the Salzkammergut region’s idyllic landscape and bounded by steep rock faces lies the Totes Gebirge – a...

Das vergessene Paradies der Alpen – Die Koralm in Zeiten der Energiewende

Bernhard Reiner

At the Koralm in Styria, plans to construct large-scale pumped-storage power plant has sparked off public resistance. ...

Das wahre Dschungelbuch

Jeremy Hogarth

In breathtaking images, we experience the stars of Rudyard Kipling’s literary classic in the India of today. Bagheera...

David Göttler – Everest ohne Sauerstoff

Tom Dauer

25min

On 29 May 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first people ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest....

Day Dream – Searching for the Inner Peak

Alessandro d'Emilia

25min

Italienisch / engl. UT

Day Dream tells the story of two characters connected to the mountains. Fausto de Stefani, an alpinist and naturalist,...

Deepfreeze Directissime Walker

Yannick Boissenot

Englisch, Französisch / engl. UT

In June 1986, Patrick Gabarrou and Hervé Bouvard opened the “Directissime de la Pointe Walker” on the Grandes...

Der Dachstein – Ansichten vom Ewigen Eis

Wolfgang Scherz

45min

The effects of climate change are clearly visible on the Dachstein. The glaciers are receding. Old sketches,...

Der König der Berge: Der Nanga Parbat und Hermann Buhl

Lutz Maurer

35min

Rick Rosenthal, Katya Shirokow

On 2 July 1953, Innsbruck mountaineer Hermann Buhl, in a daring solo attempt, became the first person to reach the...

Der Mythos der Mantas

Marine biologist and underwater filmmaker Rick Rosenthal dives with manta rays. Might these giant fish be trying to...

Die Färöer – Raue Schönheit im Atlantik

Lars Pfeiffer

The Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic are among Europe’s most remote regions. A unique culture has developed here...

Die Gebirgsjagd

Otmar Penker

90min

Many a hunter dreams of the hunt in the mountains. But mountain hunting requires a lot of experience, know-how and...

Die Geschichte vom Orangeroten Heufalter

Jan Haft

A road movie about the search for one of Europe’s rarest butterflies: Nature filmmaker Jan Haft travels through...

Die March – Ein Fluss wie damals

Manfred Christ

51min

Along the border between Austria and Slovakia runs a river that has long resisted all attempts to tame it: the Morava....

Die Rückkehr der Auerochsen

Michael Schlamberger

It was 30,000 years ago that Stone Age hunters painted some of humankind’s oldest works of art. Hidden away in remote...

DNA

Josh Lowell

24min

The 29-year-old French sport climber Seb Bouin has been quietly working his way through the elite grades, culminating...

Egoland

Ignasi López Fàbregas

20min

In this adventure-packed animated film, Marek Molek and Bruno Grassi are on the verge of reaching the summit of The...

Ephemeral

Alastair Lee

53min

The Scottish winter climbing scene is something adventure filmmaker Alastair Lee has always looked at with admiration,...

Eternal Flame

Nicolas Bossard

Englisch, Französisch / engl. UT

Jumping from the top of Trango Tower in Pakistan (6.251m) after having climbed the Eternal Flame route is to combine...

Faszination Karawanken – Mythos Grenze

Franz-Leopold Schmelzer

24min

Schwedisch, Norwegisch, u.a. / engl. UT

The Karawanken rise skywards like a huge, dividing wall. Although another boundary – the national border between...

Floating on Snow

Kurt Skoog

59min

Beyond skiing on groomed pistes, there are other stories about skis and skiing to tell. Floating on Snow delves into...

Forever Everest

Robin Willingham

Susanne Delonge, Jan Kerckhoff

Four times Olympic and world medalist Sabrina Filzmoser sets out to go from sea level to the top of Everest without the...

Gedächtnis im Eis – Rettung des Klimaarchivs

29min

Ancient glacial ice is a precious archive of inestimable value. The glacier on the wind-swept Weißseespitze in the...

Geheimnisvolles Tschechien – Ein Land wie im Märchen

Michael Schlamberger

A nature film and a fairy tale, told from the perspective of a raven. There is something enchanting and almost...

Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner: Die Innere Dimension des Bergsteigens

Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner: Die Innere Dimension des Bergsteigens

Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner

115min

Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner is the first woman in the world to have climbed all 14 peaks in the 8000-metre series without...

Grand Canyon

Pavol Barabáš

63min

Slowakisch / engl. UT

For many river runners, the Brahmaputra, Karnali, and Colorado Rivers hold a fascination. Particularly, the Colorado...

Grönland – Wilde Natur

Claudia Ruby

Greenland is the planet’s largest island. Sparsely populated and with much of its landmass covered by a gigantic ice...

Guardián del Valle, Volcán Tupungato

Andreas Tonelli

24min

Spanisch / engl. UT

Volcán Tupungato is a volcanic peak that stretches 6570 metres skywards on the border between Chile and Argentina –...

Hang – Angelino Zeller

David Stummer

26min

His paraglider suddenly folding, Angelino Zeller crashes to the ground. That was in 2017, an the incident that...

Hanns Schell – Pionier steirischer Expeditionen

Hans-Robert Schauer

Deutsch, Italienisch / dt. UT

On the occasion of the honouring of the Styrian expedition pioneer Hanns Schell by the Paul Preuss Society, the film...

Heavenly Trap

Tomáš Galásek

36min

Tschechisch / engl. UT

The first ascent of the west face of the Baruntse by the Czechs Marek Holeček and Radoslav Groh is a dramatic battle...

Heights and Depths

Sándor Csoma

96min

Ungarisch / engl. UT

The protagonist of the story is Hilda Sterczer, the widow of the internationally renowned mountaineer, Zsolt Erőss....

I Giacometti

Susanna Fanzun

104min

With the Giacomettis, the rugged valley of Bregaglia in the Swiss mountains has brought forth an entire dynasty of...

If it’s Easy, it’s not Fun

Aurelie Gonin

When Liv Sansoz, climbing World champion, and Zeb Roche, paraglider and guide, asked Aurelie Gonin to go with them in...

Il mondo in camera

Mauro Bartoli

77min

Italienisch / dt. UT

Mario Fantin: director, mountaineer, explorer. Filmmaker of numerous international climbing expeditions, starting with...

Im Herzen die Berge – Starke Frauen in den Dolomiten

Lisa Maria Kerschbaumer

Andreas Gasser, Sam Strauss

The Dolomites are home to many pioneering women: women who live their lives as they see fit. Like the extreme ski...

Im Kreis

Forever in search of the best powder snow, Sam Strauss and Andreas Gassner team up with Tom Gaisbacher and Luca...

Into the Ice – An Expedition to the End of the World

Andrew Opila

Ostgrönländisch, Polnisch / engl. UT

Into the Ice is a journey into Cordillera Darwin – a remote, wild and mostly unexplored mountain range on the tip of...

Inussuk – The Way Home

Marcin Tomaszewski

16min

Inussuk is a type of sculpture created by the Inuit by arranging stones in such a way that their pile resembles a...

Jadis, Looking Backward

Sebastien Jam

39min

Why do we climb mountains? The answer can be found somewhere between the foot of the mountains and their summit. More...

Kahuna

Quentin Lustig

46min

Baptistin, Quentin, Robin und Yvan are four engineering students returning from an extraordinary five-month expedition....

Kaktus Hotel

Yann Sochaczewski

Anna Steuber, Viktor Apfelbacher

In the south-western USA, an imposing figure towers skywards, arms outstretched. At first sight, the unmissable object...

Kanadas Nationalparks – Ivvavik

Englisch, Spanisch / dt. UT

Canada is the second largest country in the world and the first to recognize that the diversity of its landscapes must...

Karim’s Footsteps

Javier Álvaro

51min

Abdul Karim is the most famous sherpa in the Karakorum. Born in Hushé, a small village in northern Pakistan, his only...

Kilimandscharo – diesmal mit Krücken

Michael Scheyer

108min

Bertrand Delapierre, Séverine Gauci

Thomas Lämmle climbed eight-thousanders like Mount Everest without breathing apparatus. After narrowly surviving a...

La Nau

Guillem Miró

18min

Spanisch / engl. UT

Bartomeu, a somewhat surly but on the whole peaceable retired man who quietly cultivates his terraces beneath the...

La Verte, a Steep Skiing Story

If the Mont Blanc is Chamonix’ King, the Aiguille Verte is its queen. Climbed for the first time in 1866 by the...

Lo Stile di Vita – Die Riegler-Brüder

Tom Dauer

Although Florian and Martin Riegler easily have what it takes to be among the best-known sibling teams in contemporary...

Lure of Adventure in the South Island

Tom Woodward

40min

New Zealand’s South Island is an adventurer’s wonderland, with jagged snow-capped mountains, dense uninhabited...

Lynx Man

Juha Suonpää

80min

Finnisch / engl. UT

A Finnish equivalent of Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man, Hannu has a love and connection to nature that surpasses most....

Migrant Trees

Alfredo Croce

Jules Guarneri, Benoît Goncerut

Trees that are not native to Europe but thrive here nevertheless have become a hot topic that has polarized opinion....

Mountain Guides

Pavol Barabáš

68min

Slowakisch / dt. UT

It’s been 150 years since the idea of organised guided mountain tours in the High Tatras was born. To this day, this...

Mustafa Ceylan

Had his father had his way, Moustique – Mustafa – would have made his career as a footballer. But from the moment...

My Phantom

Line van den Berg

Englisch / Engl. UT

My Phantom follows the intimate journey of Dutch alpinist Line van den Berg as she questions what it means to be a...

No Bolts – Rissklettern um Innsbruck

Jonathan Fäth

31min

Really hard single-pitch trad routes are few and far between in Tyrol. To find these “gems”, which don’t feature...

Nuptse: Touching the Intangible

Hugo Clouzeau

66min

Lucas Costes & Mathéo Bourgeois

Having conquered Peru’s Siula Chico, Hélias Millerioux, Frédéric Degoulet and Benjamin Guigonnet are dreaming of...

Overhang

14min

Jonathan Bargibant, a climbing teacher, prepares to climb the 8b+ rated Tom & Je Ris route in the Gorges du Verdon in...

Pasang: In the Shadow of Everest

Nancy Svendsen

71min

Nepalesisch / engl. UT

Pasang chronicles Pasang Lhamu Sherpa’s tragic and inspiring journey to become the first Nepalese woman to summit...

Peaks & Perils

Jakob Lang

11min

Deutsch / engl. UT

In this short film made in 2023, we accompany a mountain rescue team on a mission and learn about the procedure of an...

Peaks of Sweden

Jimmy Sundin

48min

Schwedisch / engl. UT

Jimmy, Tobias and Björn have decided to make a winter ascent of Sweden’s twelve highest peaks – all of them above...

Permakultur, das kleine Paradies

Emily Shuttleworth

11min

Deutsch / engl. UT

What happens when you let nature run wild? Can you feed yourself just from your own garden? In search for the answers,...

Pioneers

Alessandro Beltrame

33min

Italienisch / engl. UT

In the mid-19th century, when the first English travellers were exploring the largely as yet unclimbed peaks of the...

Pioniere, Legenden und Helden des Wildwassers

Olaf Obsommer

76min

Doris Hochmayr, Wolfgang Stickler

The AKC – the Alpine Kayak Club – has always been a committed, passionate promoter of extreme whitewater rafting....

Qatar – Perlen im Sand

Qatar is a country of extremes: no larger than the province of Upper Austria, the desert state on the Persian Gulf is...

Sanfte Berge – Wilde Moore

Patrick Centurioni

The Alpine foothills are among Europe’s most romantic wild regions, where mist-shrouded lakes and moors border the...

Shamata

Leopold Le Grelle

22min

This short film takes us on a journey rich in the adventures of a freedom-seeking traveller. Combined with the practice...

Siegerehrung und Lange Nacht des Bergfilms

Mountainfilm

240min

The Mountainfilm Graz 2023 shortlist, with all award-nominated films, will be published at the beginning of November....

SOKO Gartenschläfer

Rosie Koch

Garden dormice are native throughout Europe. But it seems the rodents with the characteristic black eye markings are...

Sturm am Manaslu

Reinhold Messner

80min

François-Xavier De Ruydts

In 1972, a small expedition led by Wolfgang Nairz embarked on a journey to the challenging south face of Manaslu (8163...

Subterranean

87min

In a remarkable year, two gritty teams of hobbyist cavers are poised to break records for the longest and deepest caves...

Tanganjikasee – Das blaue Herz Afrikas

Harald Pokieser

Dariusz Zaluski, Aleksandra Prokopiuk

Lake Tanganyika unites two magical worlds: wild coasts and a fascinating underwater world with more than two hundred...

The Curse of the Mountain. In the Footsteps of the First Polish Himalayan Climbers.

62min

Polnisch / engl. UT

The film tells the story of a Polish expedition to Nanda Devi East in July 1939, whose participants were outstanding...

The Last Continent

Matthias Mayr, Franz Fuchs

Deutsch, Englisch / dt. UT

The two freeriders “Hauni” and Matthias have experienced and filmed many great adventures on almost every...

The Legend of Goldhorn

Lea Vučko

14min

Englisch, diverse Sprachen / engl. UT

This story based on a Slovenian folk tale is an analogy of greed and humans’ relationship with nature. In the heart...

The Patagonian Spider

Fulvio Mariani

115min

Patagonia: Gigantic ice-encrusted towers of rock reach out for the storm-lashed sky. Here, mountaineering is a...

The Sound of the Ice

Thibault Cattelain

48min

In the early 1970s, a small group of professional alpinists began to specialize in what was at the time a brand-new...

Thomas Huber: In den Bergen ist Freiheit

Thomas Huber

75min

For decades, the world-famous climber and extreme mountaineer Thomas Huber has been moving close to the edge:...

Tief im Fels – Überleben am Untersberg

Peter Künzel

Ever since the major international operation to rescue speleologist Johann Westhauser from the Riesending cave in 2014,...

Tigereyes

Martina Trepczyk

11min

Hamna Hussein is the first and still only female and only Muslim scuba diver on a small Maldivian island, diving with...

Todesfalle Haute Route

Frank Senn

90min

When seven of the ski mountaineers froze to death and their guide lost his life through a fall, a mere 400 metres from...

Tour Du Ciel

Michael Düchs

29min

“Big mountains, big glaciers – a constant up and down. And: great skiing!” This is how the Garmisch mountain...

Überirdisch – Die Welt aus der Luft

Andrea Gastgeb

Though our planet is characterised by unique, fascinating landscapes, large swathes of them remain mostly hidden from...

Une belle trace

Charley Radcliffe

19min

Ramona Waldner, Alexander Brugger

In July 2022, mountain guides Frederic Degoulet and Benjamin Ribeyre set out to attempt a mountaineering first – to...

Via Sedna

93min

Englisch / dt. UT

Climber Caro North and skipper Marta Guemes share a passion for venturing into the unknown. They soon hatch the idea of...

Von Eis und Feuer

Stefan Mitterwallner

4min

Iceland’s mystical, mist-shrouded landscapes, spectacular glacier lagoons and countless waterfalls hold a special...

Wasserparadiese in Europa – Die Tara-Schlucht

Sibylle Smolka

Viewed from above, the Tara is a narrow turquoise ribbon that winds through eastern Montenegro. This river, which...

We Walked Under the Earth

Alex Lopez

53min

Explorers under the earth follows the attempt of cave explorers Cédric Lachat and David Parrot to try and link the...

Wild im Gebirge. Meditationen über die Jagd

Wolfgang Tonninger

61min

Hunting is a divisive issue: It would seem that it has only insiders and ardent opponents. Which is why it is usually...

Wildwechsel – Tiere auf Achse

Herbert Ostwald

Deer leap out at cars; toads ponderously hop across the road; insects splat against windscreens. Many animals risk...

Winter am Alpenrand

Jan Haft

Deutsch, Englisch, Französisch / dt. UT

“Winter am Alpenrand” is a blue-chip nature film that serves up captivating natural history and outstanding artful...

Wireless Wilderness

Simon Willimann

9min

In Switzerland, untouched natural habitats are feeling the pressure, as a lad grab of the last unexploited areas of the...

Wundersames Kiental

Christina Zurbrügg & Michael Hudecek

Kiental in the Swiss Alps: though only a small village, it entered the history books with two historic events: Lenin...

You Can Do It

Jonas Baumann