We have chosen 11 amazing short films for 2022. I hope you love the stories as much as we do! The program differs slightly for each event wich usually hosts 6 films. Individual programs can be viewed on the Facebook event for each evening.
A Baffin Vacation
Erik Boomer and Sarah McNair-Landry set off on a bold multi-sport 45 day expedition traveling through the remote landscape of Baffin Island in search of stunning cliffs to climb and unexplored rivers to whitewater kayak
Directed: Sarah McNair-Landry, Erik Boomer
Country of Origin: Canada
Completion Date: 2022
Running time 12:30
Finding Fury
Two skiers set out to find the mythical Mount Fury on an arduous journey deep into Washington’s North Cascade range.
Directed: Mike Rogge
Country of Origin: USA
Completion Date: October 29, 2021
Running time 12:00
UTA
In 2017, 34 year-old Uta Ibrahimi became the first person from Kosovo to attempt to climb Mount Everest. Her goal was to inspire a new post-war generation in Kosovo to move on from the war and help create a better future for their country.
This film looks back on Uta’s inspirational life, charting her journey from young woman growing up in a conflict country, to the literal top of the world.
On the surface, this is a film about mountain climbing; human versus the most unforgiving terrain on the planet, but underneath it is a film about recognition, about empowerment and about having the courage and the determination to step forward and keep going – for Uta and for Kosovo. Uta mirrors her homeland, its history, its sense of place in the world and its battle for recognition. Uta and Kosovo, in that respect, are one and the same.
Directed: Jack Somerville, Jake Tupman
Country of Origin: Kosovo
Completion Date: November 23, 2021
Running time 19:23
Trustfall
A couple in life and a world class duo of wingsuit flyers, attempts to complete a routine of moves meant for an altitude of 3000m, on a mountainside of half the height. Large walls in all directions and a narrow window for completion, set this ultimate trust of partnership.
Directed: Stefan Witts
Country of Origin: Norway
Completion Date: August 1, 2021
Running time 11:00
Tracks
Kajsa and Viktor, two snowboarders living in the very north of Sweden, loves the arctic winters. But in the last two decades, something disturbing has occurred. Where they live, the average temperature is increasing at twice the rate as the global average, what consequences will that have for the winter and the people living there?
Directed: Kajsa Määttä, Viktor Björnström
Country of Origin: Sweden
Completion Date: January 1, 2022
Running time: 23:00
Ô’Parizad
In the 70’s, the pioneers explored the most breathtaking mountains in the Alps and Himalayas; 45 years later, the same passion has remained intact and alpine skiers decide to return on the trail of their ancestors.
Their goal is to reach an altitude of 8000m with their skis, to then descend by the French route of 1975, their heritage. Their Elders are like angels, their songs carrying them to the border of Afghanistan, then to the “wall of light” in Baltoro, on the outskirts of China.
Welcome to our great adventure of sharing and friendship! ô’parizad! is an invitation to travel, a hymn to the love of the mountain throughout the ages.
Directed: Guillaume Pierrel
Country of Origin: France
Completion Date: December 1, 2021
Running time: 36:00
Zenith
“It’s almost scary how beautiful the unknown can be”
Arnstein Dale, an astrophotographer from the west coast of Norway, has for several years been fascinated by taking pictures of deep sky objects out in the great cosmos.
Several light years away from what we can see with the naked eye, the unknown awaits to be captured.
Directed: Thomas Dalen
Country of Origin: Norway
Completion Date: August 1, 2021
Running time: 10:58
Ice Edge
ICE EDGE is a short documentary about a group of surfers trying to make surfboards out of ice. It follows the process from freezing the boards, shaping them and taking them out into the sea. There is a lot of trying and failing. Will it work at all? The boards are slippery, and they melt very fast. Everything needs to work simultaneously: The surfers must be ready. The boards cannot crack. The perfect wave must come.
ICE EDGE is a film where nature and people play together. It can be seen as a warm commentary on “homo ludens”, the playful human, but also as a tribute to the magnificent Lofoten Islands and the importance of preserving it.
Directed: Inge Wegge
Country of Origin: Norway
Completion Date: December 15, 2019
Running time: 10:00
The Last Ski Maker in Scotland
The uncertain future of skiing in Scotland has inspired Jamie Kunka to make sustainable skis out of wood. Based in his cabin in the Scottish Highlands, Jamie is the last ski maker in Scotland.
Jamie began teaching himself how to make his wooden skis after watching a Vimeo Staff Pick by Wyatt Visuals about a wooden-surfboard maker in Vancouver Island, Canada. https://vimeo.com/27702618. Ten years on, The Last Ski Maker in Scotland is part homage to this original film and part a celebration of the power of film to inspire us all.
Directed: Euan Robinson
Country of Origin: Scotland
Completion Date: February 1, 2022
Running time: 06:35
Alps To Go
The Alps are a place of longing. Wild, untouched, sublime – but only in our heads. Humans have been shaping and changing the Alps since time immemorial. What we see is what we have created over centuries. Nevertheless, we still tend to believe that the Alps are a counterworld. Because we wish to see them that way, we never stop reinventing their myths. Today we are at a point where we are doing more harm than good. We are in the process of destroying what we love and need. And we know that. The Alps are part of us and we are part of them. We have to take responsibility if we wish to save them. We all have to ask ourselves: “what can I do?”. More and more people are looking to the Alps as a resonant space of possible experiences. This exponential growth leads, without a doubt to conflicts of all sorts.
Directed: Peter Dippel
Country of Origin: Germany
Completion Date: September 30, 2021
Running time: 26:54
Growling Foxes and Crooked Trials
Jan has got it into his head to ride in one day with his road bike from Bern, Switzerland to South Tyrol in Italy. Three hundred and ninety kilometers is feasible — if there weren’t those six big mountain passes on the route! It gives him plenty of time to think. To think about why he needs such adventures; and why other people don’t. It’s a philosophical ride pondering the sense and nonsense of a challenge to self.
Directed: Steve Rémy Walker
Country of Origin: Switzerland
Completion Date: January 10, 2022
Running time: 25:40