Without any doubt the Antarctic is the most remote land on our planet. The threemaster “Europa” glides through a magic world of fantastic ice sculptures, in a mystic light along majestic rock faces. After 30 years, this is the first big sailing... more

At 3,700 m Tibet’s capital Lhasa (”God’s place” in English) is very close to heaven. There is probably no other city in the world where religion and politics, belief and culture, worship and daily routine are as closely interwoven as in Lhasa... more

This documentary follows a group of slack liners walking their lines. The film shows harmless slack lining above the ground as well as advanced slack lining across the crevasses of Mont Blanc and the legendary Lost Arrow Spire in Yosemite National... more

This semi animated science fiction movie presents two gamers in the year 2061. They use the trip box game device to travel through alternative realities, playing various extreme sport scenes. The Game is like a big system with a lot of connected... more

On his journey from Vienna to his homeland South Tyrol, Reinhold Messner first travels through the cold Eastern Alps. Full of spirits, Sepp Holzer, the “rebel farmer”, demonstrates how you can let nature work for you in mixed cultivation. On his... more

The inhabitants of Sicily call the 3350 metre high Mount Etna “Mongibello”, the mountain of the mountains. Almost every eruption changes its altitude. Since everything is under constant change, the mountain guides, such as Alfio Mazzaglia, have to... more

Almost 60 years after the Chinese occupation, Tibet is still a „Forbidden Land“ just like in former times. The film crew managed to travel into Tibetan regions which usually are not accessible for journalists. They used the original diaries of... more

A three-week-long journey delivered us to one of the loneliest and least known spots on Earth halfway between Russia and Alaska, where the Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea collide at what the Aleuts called the Birthplace of the Winds. Our goal was... more

In a remote region in Southern Venezuela towers the table mountain Acopan Tepui with its 700 m steep rock face dropping off vertically into the rainforest. Inaccessible and unexplored, this north face constitutes the dream goal of the professional... more

He’s only been climbing for a year, but is already regarded as the one of the best British climbers for his age. The film portrays the Welsh climber Ioan Doyle, age 16, as he races through the grades to reach E5 in his first summer of rock... more

This documentary is not about the famous idyllic pictures of the silhouette of the Matterhorn that we know from post cards showing the impressive 4000 m high mountain at its best. Instead, it tells striking stories about people who have a very... more

Herdswoman is about three Sami women to whom reindeer herding is more than a mere occupation. It is a way of life, their culture. Aina, Elisabeth and Lisa belong to different generations. Their stories reflect life in Sápmi (Lapland) and the... more

In October 1962 a very strong climbing team of Don Whillans, Chris Bonington, Barrie Page, John Streetly, Derek Walker and film maker Vic Bray left Britain sailing from Liverpool for the 10,000 mile journey to distant Patagonia. Little did they... more

Pakistan, July 8, 2006. The last photography. Euphoricly, the Tyrolean Markus Kronthaler rises his arms to the sky. He stands on the summit of the 8047 meter high Broad Peak. A few moments later he collapses and dies – for exhaustion and lack of... more

No one has pushed the limits as often as Reinhold Messner has. On the rock, on the 8000m peaks, and in the ice deserts of our planet. In his lecture he talks about his youth in the Dolomites, about the Himalayas, the North Pole, Greenland and his... more

In the middle of the rainy August 2006, two men set off on an extraordinary expedition. Ingo Schuster, 51, and Henning Fenner, 35, want to cross the Alps – however in the same way as their predecessors of the New Stone Age did, wearing their... more

In order to become a High Mountain Guide, each year new candidates with a great passion for mountains start the ENSA, the National School of Ski and Mountaineering, located in Chamonix. During 4 years of formation, they learn how to guide people... more

George Smith - upsidedown guru and arch obsessive leads us on a remarkable journey into his wonderful world - a journey with attitude and character. A lifelong epic of the most trivial proportions, - humour finally triumphant over gravity. more

One often hears extreme sports athletes say "Gravity sucks" or "No Gravity". There are people who would not agree, because without gravity their kind of sports would not exist. The snowboarder Ueli Kestenholz and the paragliding Mathias Roten love... more

In 2002, International Polar Year, six mountain climbers, good pals, travelled above the Arctic Circle to discover northwestern Nunavut in Canada: twenty-seven degrees below zero Celsius, a lost land of ice…and getting there was no easy task! They... more

Lauterbrunnen in the Bernese Oberland is one of the most attractive places for BASE jumpers in the world. The documentary portrays the small Swiss village of Lauterbrunnen by making different voices heard: A pastor whose church is situated... more

“Der stille Fall” is the portrait of Mike Schönherr, a 34-year-old basejumper from Ziller Valley (Austria). We follow the extreme athlete on his adventures in the air and get an insight into the way in which he experiences the world. The film... more

In August 2007 Dave MacLeod wrote “Yesterday was the scariest day of my life, and the end of the scariest ten days of my life. The impending climb on Hell’s Lum crag was hanging over me like a guillotine. It’s the most dangerous lead I’ve ever... more

From Zurich across the Alps and back to Zurich, 500 km on one single day, on foot, mountain bikes, skis, motorcycles, in sports cars and airplanes. The Red Bull race had its premiere in 1931. After 68 years, it celebrated its resurrection in 2007,... more

A team of 10 women from Australia and the USA come together to attempt to climb three of Africa’s highest peaks - Mt Kenya (5,199m), Mt Meru (4,666m), and Mt Kilimanjaro (5,893m) - in less than three weeks. The women have to come to terms with... more

Griff Rhys Jones visits what was once Britains’ “badlands“ when he explores the highlands of Central Scotland. He unearths the bloody history of the stunning Grampian Mountains, discovers, how the unruly peoples of these hills where brought to... more

A small mountain village in the Occitaine Alps is gradually dying out, its income and the livelihood of its ageing population only maintained by the summer tourist season. Into this small, tight knit and conservative community comes a French... more

Super Mole is a light-hearted and insightful profile of one of the most amazing and industrious animals on earth – the mole. This film ventures deep underground to reveal the incredible story of how this little mammal survives and thrives. Here we... more

All three Slovenian expeditions (in 2005, 2006, and 2007) had to face logistical difficulties. Violent storms and temperatures in the region of minus 50 degree Celsius are not uncommon in the Polar Circle. The steep walls of the largest island of... more

A man and a woman with two different views about wild animals... plus an orphaned otter pup... Hungary has one of the strongest populations of otters in the world. The story revolves around the orphaned otter pup Viki. Through her dramatic,... more

In winter, they live where other farmers only spend their summer: at an altitude of 1725 metres, deep in the snow. The mountain farmer family Kempf in the Swiss Schächental runs three farms, and therefore has to move ten times per year. In spring... more

„Die Bergretter“ shows thrilling stories of the life of the rescue team “Air Zermatt”. Already at six in the morning, the pilot Gerold is at work, waiting for the rescue chief Bruno Jelk. Since several days they are busy because of a group of... more

The 2,339 m high Bromo ranks among the most active vulcanoes on the Indonesian island Java. The people of the Tengger, with a population of around 10,000 people, live around this mountain. Their skills in crop production yield rich harvests on the... more

In extreme landscapes such as the High Alps, the powers of nature and the needs of men differ in the utmost way. Eternal ice and snow masses make mountain passes inaccessible for months. Thunderstorms, storms and hail destroy the harvests... more

George Chance spent the 1970's becoming the most accomplished photographer of the New Zealand Falcon; now some thirty years later he is suffering from ill health and going blind. Filmmaker Sandy Crichton, looking for advice on how to film this... more

Giant pouched rats the size of cats have an unusual job in Africa: they detect land mines. For one year, these rodents undergo a special formation and day by day become used to the smell of explosives. Especially in Mozambique, which was... more

The totally entangled roots in the brackish water of the tropical and sub-tropical coasts, where fresh water and salt water mix, form a unique habitat – the Mangroves. They are important breeding grounds for innumerous spieces of fish and... more