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Deutsch, Englisch / dt. UT

Graphic landscapes, buildings, industrial halls and traffic arteries: modern-day structures that characterise not just...

Alpine Camera in Gold - Alpinism & Expeditions

Edge of Reason

Jeremie Chenal

58min

Benjamin Védrines and Nicolas Jean are tackling their first 8000 metre summit, Pakistan’s Broad Peak. Their goal: to...

Alpine Camera in Gold - Sports in Mountains- & Nature

ANDREA mit Nina Caprez

Maxime Moulin

42min

Will und Lianne Steenkamp

Nina Caprez, climbing icon, sets off on the most thrilling adventure of her career, accompanied by her partner Jérémy...

Alpine Camera in Gold - Nature & Environment

Geister der Wüste – Die Löwen der Skelettküste

Geister der Wüste – Die Löwen der Skelettküste

In this captivating tale, lion researcher Dr Philip Stander follows three orphaned Desert Lion cubs as they navigate...

Alpine Camera in Gold - People & Culture

Climbing Never Die

Matt Groom & Nick Rosen

38min

Will und Lianne Steenkamp

Climbing journalist Matt Groom journeys deep into war-torn Ukraine to discover a community held together by climbing...

Audience Award

Geister der Wüste – Die Löwen der Skelettküste

In this captivating tale, lion researcher Dr Philip Stander follows three orphaned Desert Lion cubs as they navigate...

Honorable Mentions

Keep it Burning

Guillaume Broust

Josh Lowell & Peter Mortimer

Spanisch / dt. UT

The Karakorum is the wildest mountain range in the world. One of the spectacular mountains around this Baltoro glacier...

Jirishanca

Renowned alpinists Josh Wharton and Vince Anderson attempt a free ascent of the Jirishanca, an epic 20,000-foot peak in...

Yeah Buddy

Josh Lowell

28min

Australian climber Angie Scarth-Johnson, who first made her mark setting records at a young age, teams up with veteran...

Wenn die Alpen glühen

Harald Pokieser

56min

“Alpenglow”, that magnificent optical phenomenon that bathes the highest peaks in reddish light when the sun is...

Das Wahre Dschungelbuch

Jeremy Hogarth

John Murray, Jamie Fitzpatrick

In 1894, amid the winter snows of the northern United States, the English author Rudyard Kipling wrote stories set in...

Wild Transylvania – Dracula’s Hidden Kingdom

Pakistanisch (Urdu) / dt. UT

Ever since Bram Stoker’s Dracula was published, the mythical figure of the blood-sucking undead has been associated...

Sadpara

Gabriele Canu

51min

Sadpara is a journey through the heart of Pakistan’s mountains, following the origin of a name that eventually...

Un pasteur – Ein Hirte

Louis Hanquet

70min

Französisch / dt. UT

In the French Alps, far from the hustle and bustle of humanity, Felix shepherds his herd, living for months in an...

Movie overview 2024

3MWh

Marie-Magdalena Kochová

12min

Tschechisch / engl. UT

A nuclear power plant worker obsessed with counting has set a maximum limit on how much electricity he wants to...

A Climbing Odyssey

Vincent Perazio & Bertrand Delapierre

Englisch, Französich

Mountaineering legend Catherine “the Rock Queen” Destivelle now publishes books about the mountains. What is it...

A Medic

Alizhan Nasirov

24min

Kirgisisch / engl. UT

Snow up to your waist, perilous ice, barely passable roads, and sometimes no roads at all: Getting about in the chilly...

A Valley of Life

Florian Albert

7min

In search of the question of what gives us energy, a couple of friends head to a valley that is at the forefront of...

a.K. Bauen auf höchstem Niveau – Die Bergstation am Dachstein

Christian Prates

25min

More than half a century after the first cable car station on Styria’s highest mountain, the Dachstein, was built,...

a.K. Die Walder Saga

Markus Mörth

47min

When Pius Walder from East Tyrol was shot while poaching in 1982, the courts ruled intentional bodily harm with a fatal...

a.K. Nationalpark Hohe Tauern – Erlebnisräume

Alexander Brugger

15min

Englisch, Walisisch / engl. UT

A series of six exciting videos were created for the Hohe Tauern National Park, which are now part of the interactive...

Adra

Emma Chrome

54min

Llanberis is the diamond at the heart of the rugged North Wales scenery. A village hunkered down below Yr Wyddfa and...

Alexander Huber: Zeit zum Atmen / Multimedialer Vortrag

Alexander Huber: Zeit zum Atmen / Multimedialer Vortrag

Alexander Huber

120min

Louise Thaller & Stanislas Giroux

Professional alpinist, speed climber, physicist, farmer, father – Alexander Huber is many things. Less well known is...

Altitudes

82min

Französisch / dt. UT

Altitude connects them. From the glaciers of the Andes to the peaks of the Himalayas, via the Alps and the plateaus of...

ANDREA mit Nina Caprez

Maxime Moulin

42min

Nina Caprez, climbing icon, sets off on the most thrilling adventure of her career, accompanied by her partner Jérémy...

Arlberg – Wild und weltberühmt

Manfred Corrine

Austria’s Arlberg mountain, one of the world’s most famous skiing destinations, attracts the international jet set....

Auf dünnem Eis – Skifahren um jeden Preis?

Birgit Rätsch

14min

Antoine Girard, Brian Mathé and Morgan Monchaud

Glaciers are melting – yet ski tourism must survive. As early as August, glacier remnants are removed in Sölden and...

Avec Riton – Gemeinsam mit Riton

54min

Französisch / dt. UT

Antoine Girard is a paraglider and an explorer. He enjoys travelling along routes that no one has dared fly before. In...

Bärenalarm in Transsilvanien

Boas Schwarz

50min

Sarah Ziegler & Simon Straetker

No other country in Europe has more bears than Romania. Especially in Transylvania, they often come dangerously close...

Bear Brother

06min

Englisch, Spanisch / dt. UT

Bear Brother tells the story of Roberto Hartasánchez and his colleagues who have spent half a century fighting for the...

Beyond Hope

Florian Nick & Moritz Seiter

5min

Englisch / dt. UT

In Iceland, thousands of highly trained volunteers dedicate themselves to rescue people in danger, responding to around...

Big Water Theory

Emile DOMINE

83min

Big Water Theory is an exhilarating, immersive documentary that delves into the world of extreme kayaking, capturing...

Bodhichitta

Johannes Mair

25min

When Michi Wohlleben sets up a route, he sets strict standards: Approaching the climb unalloyed and with sincerity, he...

Body of a Line

Henna Taylor

10min

In this animated documentary, Madaleine Sorkin undertakes an intimate and creative journey to conquer the most...

Bühnengespräch zur ORF-Weltpremiere “Geister der Wüste – Die Löwen der Skelettküste”

ORF

Schweizerdeutsch / dt. UT

Deutsch, Englisch

On the premiere of the ORF Universum film "Lions of the Skeleton Coast", the Southafrican directors-duo Will und Lianne...

Chrigel Maurer – Der Überflieger

Sven Allenbach

50min

For two decades now, Christian “Chrigel” Maurer has been the high-flyer par excellence in the paragliding scene....

Climbing Never Die

Matt Groom & Nick Rosen

38min

Climbing journalist Matt Groom journeys deep into war-torn Ukraine to discover a community held together by climbing...

Das Wahre Dschungelbuch

Jeremy Hogarth

In 1894, amid the winter snows of the northern United States, the English author Rudyard Kipling wrote stories set in...

Dear Mother – A Climber’s Transracial Adoption Story

Jon Glassberg

41min

Michael R. Gärtner, Robin Jähne

Climber and transracial Asian-American Cody Kaemmerlen searches for connection with his birth parents after a...

Der Sturm – Tiere bei Blitz und Donner

Deutsch, Englisch / engl. UT

It’s a hot and humid summer’s day, somewhere in Europe. After an extended drought, lakes and even rivers have all...

Descendance

Michael Haunschmidt

36min

Descendance is Dennis’ story – the story of a kid who, in the town where he was born and raised, frequently had to...

Die Nacht erwacht! Über Leben im Wald

Clemens Keck, Tom Horak

44min

The sun provides the energy for life. Even in places where it struggles to penetrate the conifers, many forest...

Die österreichischen Dolomiten – Der Gosaukamm.

Tom Höll

A majestic mountain massif rises up between Austria’s Salzkammergut and the Lammertal valley. Scarred by the weather...

Edge of Reason

Jeremie Chenal

58min

Deutsch, Englisch, Italienisch / dt. UT

Benjamin Védrines and Nicolas Jean are tackling their first 8000 metre summit, Pakistan’s Broad Peak. Their goal: to...

Elevated Art

Timian Hopf

74min

For some, it is a waste of money and a blight on nature. For Michael Moling, it is an expression of love for his home...

Everest Invaders

Jean-Michel Jorda

Englisch, Französisch, Spanisch / engl. UT

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the conquest of Everest by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Reinhold Messner,...

Felsstürze in den Alpen – wie der Klimawandel unsere Berge verändert

Berndt Welz

29min

The thawing permafrost has been keeping scientists busy for some time. Just a few metres below the summit of the...

Fett und Freudig – Das Leben der Murmeltiere

Yaz Ellis, Jack Mifflin

15min

The life of an Alpine Marmot seems almost too good to be true: Living in the most beautiful mountains, they spend their...

Fond of Font

Jérôme Tanon

36min

Manu Delago, Simon Rainer

In 1953, a boundary was shifted in Fontainebleau: Up until that date, 6 was considered the highest grading, the...

From the Alps to the North Sea

24min

Can you do concert tours without flying and without using a bus? The percussionist and composer Manu Delago, who has...

Geheimnisvolle Moorlandschaften

Waltraud Paschinger

51min

Will und Lianne Steenkamp

Ancient and shrouded in mist and mystery. Moors have many faces, harbour many secrets. Home to plants and animals...

Geister der Wüste – Die Löwen der Skelettküste

In this captivating tale, lion researcher Dr Philip Stander follows three orphaned Desert Lion cubs as they navigate...

Gipfel-Liebe – Deutschlands bestes Bergsteigerpaar

Claus Hanischdörfer

Frank Nischk, Michael R. Gärtner, Ulf Marquardt, Max Meis, Tilman Wolff

Daniela and Robert Jasper are Germany’s best mountaineering couple. At home in the southern Black Forest and together...

Gute Nachrichten vom Planeten – Wie wir Wälder retten

43min

The news is full of doom and gloom: Forests are burning, pristine habitats are being destroyed. But there is hope, as...

Hidden Spirit

Uri Magnus

Englisch, Hebräisch, Mongolisch / engl. UT

Devastated by the death of his sister, wildlife photographer Amit Eshel embarks on the difficult journey to capture a...

Hunter’s Paradise

Sidario Balzarini

16min

Schweizerdeutsch / dt. UT

An explorer, mountaineer, and paraglider pilot, Thomas Ulrich’s heart also beats for hunting, where he feels free and...

Ian

Matt Raimondo

8min

Juan Diego Amador, Diego Borges Gonzalez de Ara

He is 72 years old and far from ready to retire: Although Australian climber Ian Elliot didn’t embark on his climbing...

In the Wake of Shackleton

Josh Lowell & Peter Mortimer

Spanisch / engl. UT

Sir Ernest Shackleton was a famous sailor and adventurer – one of the most important in polar history at the...

Jirishanca

Renowned alpinists Josh Wharton and Vince Anderson attempt a free ascent of the Jirishanca, an epic 20,000-foot peak in...

Karakorum 1974 – erste Schritte

Robert Schauer

In 1974, a handful of young Austrians ventured on an expedition to the Karakoram. It was their first such adventure and...

Keep it Burning

Guillaume Broust

Spanisch / dt. UT

The Karakorum is the wildest mountain range in the world. One of the spectacular mountains around this Baltoro glacier...

Korridore des Lebens – Europas grenzenlose Natur

Franz Hafner

Deutsch, Englisch, Japanisch / dt. UT

Nature knows no borders and is always on the move. But since humans have intensified their exploitation of the planet...

Krähen – Nature is watching us

Martin Schilt

90min

They have accompanied and travelled with us since the beginning of time. With powerful beats of heir wings, they fly...

Kritisch Reisen: Alptraum Alpen?

Marko Rösseler

The Alps are a sought-after destination not just in winter but also during the summer months, attracting visitors for...

Life on the Run

Grzegorz Lipiec

Polnisch / engl. UT

The story of Piotr Hercog – an interdisciplinary athlete, winner of the most challenging mountain ultramarathons....

Mad For It: Tim Emmett’s insane life, so far…

Jon Glassberg

16min

Matteo Maggi; Cristiana Pecci

One of the most influential adventurers of our time that you’ve probably never heard of, Tim Emmett has been...

Marmolada. Madre Roccia

76min

Italienisch / engl. UT

This documentary follows the adventures of three renowned mountaineers, assisted by a young aspiring climber, on the...

Mission Impossible – Kajakexpedtion Tibet

Olaf Obsommer

19min

Deutsch, Englisch / dt. UT

Kayak legend Olaf Obsommer has gathered the cream of the international kayaking scene around him: his planned project...

Mongolia, Valley of the bears

Hamid Sardar

88min

Mongolisch / dt. UT

The Taiga, also known as the boreal forest, represents about 17% of the Earth’s surface and has the highest density...

Nando – Lebensgeist im Eis

Michael Tscholl

21min

Italienisch / dt. UT

The 82-year-old South Tyrolean ice climber Vittorino “Nando” Aio lives an exciting life: Climbing icy walls alone...

Néou Muga

Daniel Santamaría Aduán

Spanisch, Französisch / engl. UT

This is the story of three friends who cross the Central Pyrenees on their gravel bikes and skis without outside aid,...

Pachamama

Yannick Boissenot

47min

Französisch, Spanisch / engl. UT

Camille Armand, French snowboarder known for his good results on the Freeride world tour and Pierre Hourticq, high...

Painting the Mountains

Pierre Cadot

60min

Englisch, Französisch, Spanisch / dt. UT

The adage goes that beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, and “Painting the Mountains” is a testament to that....

Planetwalker

Dominic Gill and Nadia Gill

31min

In 1971, John Francis, known the world over as “Planet walker”, witnessed an oil tanker collision in the San...

Puntare in alto

Jacqueline Fritz

10min

The 37-year-old Jacqueline Fritz is full of warmth, optimism, zest and joie de vivre. This despite the fact that fate...

Red Rock Revolution

Jim Aikman

8min

Lea Brüggemann, Stefanie Hass, Verena Meyer

Following an unlikely courtship, Jorge and Joanne Urioste arrived in Las Vegas, Nevada in the 1970s, long before it was...

Rettung für die Alpen – Was hilft gegen den Klimawandel?

As well as being a popular holiday destination, the Alps are an important store of drinking water. But they are...

Rods, Rolls & Reality on the Soča

Rožle Bregar, Rok Rozman

6min

Pakistanisch (Urdu) / dt. UT

Swapping paddles for rods, this crew of kayakers attempt to put the hook in the right spot. Under the emerald waters of...

Sadpara

Gabriele Canu

51min

Sadpara is a journey through the heart of Pakistan’s mountains, following the origin of a name that eventually...

Schweden – Ruf der Wildnis

Zoltán Török

55min

Wildlife filmmaker Zoltan Török has chosen Sweden as his home. In recent years, several of Zoltan’s nature...

SCURRARI – A mountain adventure

Timm Schröder

14min

Deutsch, Englisch

The rivalry between skiers and snowboarders is a tale as old as the mountains they ride. But once in a blue moon, a...

Siegerehrung und Lange Nacht des Bergfilms

Mountainfilm Graz

240min

An annual highlight of Mountainfilm Graz is the presentation of the winning entries in the Grand Prix Graz and category...

Simon Messner: Traditional Alpinism / Multimedialer Vortrag

Simon Messner

120min

Mi-Yong Brehm, Verena Feige

Simon Messner studied molecular biology and is a passionate alpinist. He found his love for the mountains at the age of...

Simply Beautiful

Tomáš Galásek

28min

Tschechisch / engl. UT

Embark on an awe-inspiring, thrilling, at times humorous journey with climbers Marek Holecek and Matej Bernat in this...

Skandinavien – Rückkehr des Lichts

In winter, the polar night shrouds Scandinavia in darkness, the sun barely visible for months on end. These are extreme...

Skitouren / Rifugio Dosdé

Georg Bayerle

27min

The prospect of discovering an untouched landscape, leaving your tracks where no human has gone before, seems like an...

Smarte Insekten

Berndt Welz

44min

Englisch, Spanisch / engl. UT

Wasps, bees, bumblebees, earwigs: though their brains are tiny, they are highly intelligent. They can recognise faces,...

Something is Changing

Mikel Sarasola

11min

Glacial fed from high up in the Pyrenees, the Río Ara is Spain’s last free-flowing river. And it’s drying up....

Sophie Lavaud – The Final Summit

François Damilano

87min

Rosie Koch, Roland Gockel

There are fourteen 8000 metre peaks: the Himalayan giants, a world where the air is so thin no human can survive for...

Strände Europas – Kurische Nehrung

Englisch, Polnisch / engl. UT

On Lithuania’s Curonian Spit, which separates the Curonian lagoon from the Baltic Sea, winter unfolds a special...

Stronger than Ever

Marcin Jamkowski

71min

"Stronger than Ever" is the human story of a middle-aged climber who, after a near-fatal accident, decides to climb the...

System Change – A story of growing resistance

Klaus Sparwasser

90min

Deutsch / engl. UT

Two thousand police officers against two hundred tree occupiers in an ancient forest in the heart of Germany, which is...

Talent-Entdecker und Kletterhallen-Chef – Reini Scherer

Malte Roeper

16min

Reini Scherer is a veteran climber. In the course of his long climbing career, the head of the Innsbruck climbing...

The Great White Whale

Michael Dillon

105min

Francesco Clerici, Tommaso Barbaro

Deep in the wild Southern Ocean, halfway between Australia and Africa, a snowy volcano, almost three thousand meters...

The Ice Builders

15min

On the chain of the Himalayas, in the remote and desertic mountain valley of Zanskar, the local populations have always...

The Mountain Man

Davide Demichelis

Deutsch, Englisch / engl. UT

Italienisch / engl. UT

Seventy-two-year-old Franco Baudino has lived all his life up in the Piedmont valleys. His heart belongs to the Elva...

The Red Face Zone

Marco Tribelhorn

10min

“The Red Face Zone” is a fictional ski and snowboard movie starring the infamous Weger Brothers. Jakob and Matthias...

The Time Factor

Clément Lefer

25min

Schweitzerdeutsch / engl. UT

In the unforgiving peaks of the Swiss Alps, in the realm of the Matterhorn, an elite team of rescuers battles to save...

The Vagabonds of Logan

Mathieu Rivoire

At 5959 metres, Mount Logan is North America’s second highest peak, and certainly one of the world’s wildest...

Tribute to David Breashears

Robert Schauer