International Mountain & Adventure Film Festival ends with Golden Alps Camera Awards in Austria

Variety 11:20 PM - 2021-07-04

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The The International Mountain & Adventure Film Festival  ended on the evening of 6/12/2021 in the Austrian city of Graz, which opened this year from 9/6 to 12/6. At this time every year, the festival's cinematic shows continue which are divided between films of the Alps, films of sports in the mountains, films of nature and the environment, films of peoples and cultures. The international festival, which started its first session in 1986, is chaired by former international mountaineer Robert Schauer and one of the first Austrians to set foot on Mount Everest 3 times! The festival is held annually in mid-November, where the cold weather and snow and the festival is a piece of the body of the city of Graz and the public is not used to its stay in This time!! Despite the pandemic, the festival was attended by lovers of mountain, adventure, nature and exotic civilizations!

 

The festival opened on 9/6 at the Palace Mountain Theater, which is the highest point in the city of Graz and in the heart of the old city, with a speech by the festival president, Robert Schauer, in the presence of a large audience. Before the opening presentation, a discussion was held with the Swiss director (Christian Frei) about his film (Genesis 2.0), which was Oscar nominee! The film presents the steps and influences in the field of genes and the events of the film for an exploratory team accompanied by hunters in northern Siberia and the search for the tusks of the woolly mammoth. Ivory is sold at imaginary amounts, and research is also used by experts to search for DNA in frozen bodies - it did not fall within the scope of science, scientists, genetics and biology in Russia, America and China. Thus, the Chinese mammoth is reproduced in addition to its display in museums. The film is also an adventure for the team, The movie took 113 minutes!

 

The Highway Film, directed by Peter Mortimer and Josh Lovell

The film shows the supernatural strength of a girl who climbs rocks with incredible strength and tries to be able to outperform the steepest rocks - Nina Williams - an American girl who seeks to be the best in the world and one of the few women who climb rocks without ropes and protection and her team does not exceed only her friend and photographer, very difficult and miraculous scenes Breath holding, nerve-racking, and like a fantasy. On the sidelines of the festival, I met the former world climber Shell. He told me that this girl went beyond the limits of reasonable adventure. The movie is one of the mountain sports films and took 18 minutes, but it was 18 hours to watch!!

 

The Moxo Miracle - directed by German Olaf Opsomar (41 minutes)

Water sports and adventures are beloved sports and traditions that pursue adventurers and athletes in the former Soviet Union - an exploratory team of a group of young men from Austria, Germany, Russia and the United States of America. Director Olaf's team travels through the mountains and then carries small sports kayaks to experience crazy and violent adventures in the rivers of narrow valleys in the mountains (Baymirn) in Tajikistan, in addition to what I saw that the film carries along with the adventure a tourist character to show the landmarks of Tajikistan during the team's passage through villages and passing through Bedouins and shepherds Until you reach the mountains. The Moksu River is a fantastical miracle of enchanting nature. The only solution to get out of the mountains is through its narrow corridors, which are 88 kilometers long, surrounded on both sides by towering peaks and rocks. A very interesting movie!!

 

Life Lines (A Tale of Two Friends), directed by Frank Kretschmann (24 minutes)

The film is among the films of mountain and nature sports, despite the different paths and lines of their lives, climbers Roger Schali and Stefan Seacrest link them to the sport of climbing! Films, clips and events that take the breath away and instill fear in the audience of their climbing on the bare rocks in the Alps, which in turn are the climbing grounds for them..Hard rocks to engrave a new story for two friends on the rocks. After the show, they climbed the stage to be interviewed by the festival president about the events of the film and the difficulties they faced!

 

Hindu Kush Atheists - directed by Sabiha Somar (44 minutes)

The film is among the films of cultures and peoples in northern Pakistan, and for many centuries there, where the Kalash people live, clinging to their culture and civilization and their faith in many gods linked to nature in an Islamic country. The film raises a question: Can the Kalash people live a modern life and adapt to urbanization while retaining their cultures and civilization, and the film won One of the appreciation awards at the festival, and the head of the festival, Shawar, said that the director could not come from Pakistan!

 

Towards the Top - directed by Stefan Kochel and David Scheken-Kroeber (42 minutes)

The film falls within the scope of mountain sports films to tell the story of an 18-year-old who in turn is a role model for ambitious Austrian youth in climbing competitions. In 2020, despite the Corona pandemic, he won the Austrian Boulder Championship and hails from Karenina region. Europe in the Austrian city of Graz and the impressions about the harsh exercises he receives after moving to nature and the struggle with the mountain!

 

Makatea: A Vertical Adventure - directed by Colamy Proust (29 minutes)

The film takes place on a French island called Makatea, with an area of ​​64 km and a population of 61 people. plants, animals, remnants of phosphate mines and abandoned tools. In 2018, the expedition team got to know the island’s residents closely and children, but from the sports and adventure side, it is an invitation to tourism and climbing sports from the many wonderful views and towering rocks on the banks of the sea!

Golden Alps Camera Awards in the The long night at the festival, before the festival closed the curtain on its 31st session, appreciation awards were distributed to some of the participating films, and then the Golden Alps Cameras Awards were distributed:

 

The Golden Alps Camera Award for Alpine Films and Explorations was awarded to Slovakian director (Pavol Barabas) for his film Everest, The Hard Way!

 

The Golden Alps Camera Award in mountain and nature sports was awarded to the American director (Hanna Taylor) for her film A Thousand Ways to Kiss the Earth! As for the golden camera for nature and environment films, it was given to Switzerland by director (Thomas Horat) for his film Return of the Wolves!

 

The Golden Camera Award for films of peoples and cultures went to the German director (Johannes Hanno) for his film the Northern Lights from Greenland to Alaska!

 

And the Golden Camera Award for the best Austrian production, directed by Otmar Schmider from Austria for his film (Days as Years)!

 

With this, the activities and activities of the International Mountain Film Festival in Graz, Austria, in its 31st session, postponed from November 2020, end. Next November, the festival will be held on time... so that Graz will be again the kiss of world climbers and mountain lovers in abundance and without restrictions...November, Graz and the festival have been twins since 1986 year!!

 

 

 

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