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Tuesday, 11. Nov. 2014

17:00 | Dom im Berg

Price: 13 € Ticket Order

Wareck Arnaud, Johann Civel

Blowin in the wind

11 min

Sports in Mountains & Nature

The first ascent of La Meije (Massif des Ecrins) in August 1877 by Gaspard de la Meije is often described as the...

Sébastian Montaz-Rosset

Downside Up

34 min

Sports in Mountains & Nature

With peaks of over 4000 metres rising spectacularly from the valley floor, Chamonix is home to an unrivalled history...

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Bertrand Delapierre

Beyond the Good and Evil

12 min

Sports in Mountains & Nature

Twenty years ago, Andy Parkin and Mark Twight opened a route on the Mont Blanc-Massif, which they accurately named...

Guido Perrini

Mission Steeps

33 min

Sports in Mountains & Nature

Watch Snowboarder Xavier De Le Rue and freeskier Samuel Anthamatten riding faces of peaks in the area of Zermatt and...

20:00 | Dom im Berg

Price: 18 € Ticket Order

Franz Walter

Loslassen

24 min

Alpinism & Expeditions

Exposed, difficult, high faces, partly in thin air. This is the world of the Swiss mountaineer Roger Schäli. He lives...

Peter Mortimer, Josh Lowell, Zachary Barr, Nick Rosen

High Tension

40 min

People & Cultures

Mount Everest made headlines around the world in 2013 when it was reported that Ueli Steck and Simone Moro, the...

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Sébastian Montaz-Rosset

Déjame Vivir (Lass mich leben)

62 min

Sports in Mountains & Nature

Defying his own limits, “Déjame Vivir” chronicles Kilian Jornet’s challenge to fulfill a childhood dream, following...

Wednesday, 12. Nov. 2014

17:00 | Dom im Berg

Price: 13 € Ticket Order

Sam Giffin

I love Splitboarding

7 min

Sports in Mountains & Nature

For quite some time skiers were enjoying the powder in the backcountry, while snowboarders were stuck at the ski lift...

Mike Douglas

Tempting Fear

25 min

Alpinism & Expeditions

Andreas Fransson has been called the boldest extreme skier in a generation. Over the past three years he’s logged...

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Stefan Köchel, David Schickengruber

Bügeleisen – Die Geschichte vom Sitzstart

14 min

Sports in Mountains & Nature

The Finnish professional climber Nalle Hukkataival is coming for the fourth time to Carinthia, to the Maltal valley,...

Andre Nutini

Hurt So Good

36 min

Sports in Mountains & Nature

Skiing is a roller coaster of emotions. Nothing is comparable to the dream like feeling of being in the mountains,...

20:00 | Dom im Berg

Price: 18 € Ticket Order

Franz Walter

Velocity

7 min

Sports in Mountains & Nature

It is impossible to minimize the risk of ice climbing. Every climb on an icefall is a critical adventure due to the...

Paul Diffley, Chris Prescott

Wide Boyz II

50 min

Sports in Mountains & Nature

After their success climbing the world's hardest offwidth crack Pete Whittaker and Tom Randall embark on their next...

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Alexandre Marchesseau

Gare au Gauri (Shankar)

17 min

Alpinism & Expeditions

Four french alpinists embarque on a perilous quest to reach the summit of Gaurishankar, in the Rolwaling valley,...

Laurent Triay

One thing leading to another

59 min

Sports in Mountains & Nature

A team of rope enthusiasts on the search of new possibilities in highlining and rope jumping. The camera follows them...

15:00 | Schubert Saal 1

Price: 6 € Ticket Order

Marc Fafard

The Wings of Johnny May

84 min

People & Cultures

In the year 1963, a pilot crossed the whole Province of Québec in the north east of Canada in his tiny airplane. From...

17:00 | Schubert Saal 1

Price: 8 € Ticket Order

Rastislav Hatiar

Blind Trust

32 min

Alpinism & Expeditions

When Juraj Prager was 12, his eyesight started to get worse. At the age of 19, he went blind. His life changed...

Matthias Affolter

Berge im Kopf

94 min

Alpinism & Expeditions

High mountains serve as a refuge and as a home for mountaineers of four generations. Together with Jacques Grandjean...

19:30 | Schubert Saal 1

Price: 8 € Ticket Order

Christoph Frutiger

Just a normal working week – Cerro Torre West Face

15 min

Alpinism & Expeditions

The Huber brothers, Stefan Siegrist and Dani Arnold. A team of the best climbers in the German-speaking world on the...

Nick Ryan

The Summit

95 min

Alpinism & Expeditions

In 2008, 22 mountaineers climbed the K2. The second highest mountain on earth is known as one of our planet’s most...

22:00 | Schubert Saal 1

Price: 6 € Ticket Order

Sascha Köllnreitner

Attention – A Life in Extremes

94 min

Sports in Mountains & Nature

They fly along steep rock cliffs, dive without oxygen into the depths of the sea, and, on incredibly gruelling...

15:00 | Schubert Saal 2

Price: 6 € Ticket Order

Barbara Gräftner

Rise Up! And Dance

85 min

People & Cultures

When the young farmer Markus falls in love with the young beautiful student girl Romi, two completely different...

17:00 | Schubert Saal 2

Price: 8 € Ticket Order

Ernst Gossner

Der Stille Berg

94 min

People & Cultures

The Tyrolean Anderl Gruber meets his first love, the Italian Francesca Calzolari. However, the First World War...

19:30 | Schubert Saal 2

Price: 8 € Ticket Order

Mike Douglas

The Freedom Chair

15 min

Sports in Mountains & Nature

Josh Dueck was an aspiring skier and coach until a ski accident in 2004 changed his life for good. After coming to...

Thomas Dirnhofer

Cerro Torre – Nicht den Hauch einer Chance

99 min

Alpinism & Expeditions

Already as child, David Lama had been considered as a prodigy climber, when he won his first competitions. Meanwhile...

22:00 | Schubert Saal 2

Price: 6 € Ticket Order

Kurt Mayer

Planet der Spatzen

51 min

Nature and Environment

Mankind plays a decisive role for sparrows. Since more than 10,000 years, they follow us without allowing us to...

Kai Schubert

Nach der langen Nacht - Der Winter in Spitzbergen

44 min

Nature and Environment

„After the long night“, the high Arctic is presenting itself from a very particular perspective. Bizarre and charming...

15:00 | Schubert Saal 3

Price: 6 € Ticket Order

Iris Gesang, Andreas Kieling

Kielings wilde Welt (Folge 2)

44 min

Nature and Environment

Andreas Kieling travels to the most beautiful animal paradises on earth and presents exceptional and charismatic...

Goggo Gensch

Europas Norden - Fjorde, Felsen und Eisberge

44 min

People & Cultures

Starting point for this journey to the UNESCO World Heritage Places in northern Europe has been Germany’s...

17:00 | Schubert Saal 3

Price: 8 € Ticket Order

Benedikt Kuby

Der Bauer bleibst du

101 min

People & Cultures

It is about 400 years that members of the Wanner family own extended farmland high in the Austrian Alps. The last...

19:30 | Schubert Saal 3

Price: 8 € Ticket Order

Niko Jäger

Die Höhlenjäger - Expedition in den Bauch der Erde

52 min

Alpinism & Expeditions

Deep underground in the wilderness of New Zealand, gigantic and largely unexplored cave systems attract adventurers...

Berndt Welz

Unbekannte Welten - Tatort Almwiese

49 min

Nature and Environment

The insect scientist and animal film maker Urs Wyss has a goal. The Swiss wants to capture the fascinating procedures...

22:00 | Schubert Saal 3

Price: 6 € Ticket Order

Daniel Dencik

Expedition ans Ende der Welt

90 min

Nature and Environment

On a three-masted schooner aboard with artists, scientists and ambitions worthy of Noah or Columbus, we set off...

Thursday, 13. Nov. 2014

16:00 | Stefaniensaal

Price: 12 € Ticket Order

Fritz Kalteis

Peter Aufschnaiter – Acht Jahre in Tibet

50 min

Alpinism & Expeditions

Seven Years in Tibet – the story of the escape of the two Austrian war prisoners to the Forbidden Town of Lhasa is...

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Leanne Pooley

Beyond the Edge

90 min

Alpinism & Expeditions

In 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and a whole expedition team set off to face one of the last challenges on earth: to be...

19:30 | Stefaniensaal

Price: 19 € Ticket Order

Jeff Thomas

The Burn

7 min

Sports in Mountains & Nature

Every summer, forest fires burn wildly across the temperate mountain regions of the world. As destructive as they...

Jamling Tenzing Norgay

Auf den Spuren meines Vaters – Die Sherpas und der Everest

70 min

Multimedia-Presentation

Jamling Tenzing is the son of the famous Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, who was the first human to reach the summit of Mount...

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Andreas Nickel

Nanga Parbat - Schicksalsberg

50 min

Alpinism & Expeditions

The „mountain of destiny“ of German alpinists, the Nanga Parbat, was climbed for the first time in 1953 by the...

from 16:00 | Congress Graz - Blauer Salon

You do not need an extra-ticket for the "Blauer Salon" or the "Grünen Salon". If you own a ticket for the programs shown in the Stefaniensaal, Steiermarksaal or Kammermusiksaal, this ticket is valid for the respective whole day and you have free entrance to the whole program shown in the �Saloons�.

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Damien Artero

Autarcies

16:00 - 64 min

People & Cultures

My lover and I, first alone, then with our baby girl, have travelled the world on a tandem. Back from a rough trip...

Gieri Venzin

Il clom da la pezza - 150 onns Club Alpin Svizzer/Der Ruf...

17:05 - 26 min

Alpinism & Expeditions

It is said that it was on the extraordinary 3,614m high Tödi Mountain where Rudolf Theodor Simler from Zurich had the...

Waltraud Paschinger

Nockberge – Land zwischen Himmel und Erde

17:30 - 52 min

Nature and Environment

The Nockberge mountain range counts among Europe’s most interesting average mountains and due to their soft forms and...

Lisa Mirjam Wimmer

Roots and Wings

18:25 - 58 min

People & Cultures

“If you really want to fly, we will do it!” promises Oliver his daughter Eloisa during a phone call on her 18th...

Michael Malakhov

The Mystery of the Copper River

19:25 - 39 min

Alpinism & Expeditions

Just a century ago the Copper River was one of the main mysteries of Alaska. Two great empires tried to outrun each...

Ralf Blasius

Expedition Deutschland - Eine Zeitreise durch 500...

20:05 - 44 min

Nature and Environment

In this episode, the journey starts 100 million years ago. An incisive event is particularly marking Germany and...

Antonin Michaud-Soret

We are the rovers

20:50 - 18 min

Sports in Mountains & Nature

“We are the Rovers” is a High Land adventure with a difference - a paramotor journey into the Scottish wilderness...

Friday, 14. Nov. 2014

15:30 | Stefaniensaal

Price: 12 € Ticket Order

Solenn Bardet

The Himbas are shooting!

52 min

People & Cultures

In Namibia, a group of Himbas men and women of all ages have decided to make a film showing who they are and what...

Jonathan, Norman und Ronald P. Vaughan

Äktschn - die entfesselten Kameras

45 min

Sports in Mountains & Nature (beyond competition)

Today we are used to experiencing TV-sports events very close to the athlete. This is only possible due to numerous...

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Tilman Achtnich, Claus Hanischdörfer

Drama am Gipfel – Teil 1

44 min

Alpinism & Expeditions

Mountains mean adventure, destiny, and drama, especially on the screen. The famous Austrian actor Harald Krassnitzer...

Michael Schlamberger

Making Of: 360°

30 min

Nature and Environment (beyond competition)

Since the time when the Lumière brothers fascinated the world with their first cameras, filmmakers intend to present...

19:30 | Stefaniensaal

Price: 19 € Ticket Order

Adrian Goiginger

Klang der Stille

6 min

Sports in Mountains & Nature

A sunny winter day in the Austrian Alps. Perfect conditions for the professional ski free riders Stefan and Björn to...

Tom Dauer, Jochen Hemmleb, Günther Göberl

Licht und Schatten - Piz Badile-Nordostwand

52 min

Alpinism & Expeditions

In 1952 the Austrian mountaineer legend Hermann Buhl was the first to climb the north east face of the Piz Badile...

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Dean Leslie

Why We Run

16 min

Sports in Mountains & Nature

Bernd Heinrich is a retired Professor living in a log cabin in the woods of Western Maine. He has held numerous...

Paul Diffley

Distilled

42 min

Alpinism & Expeditions

Scotland in winter is an arena where mountaineers pit their skills against exacting climbs often in ferocious...

15:00 | Steiermarksaal

Price: 9 € Ticket Order

Mathieu Le Lay

The Quest for Inspiration

54 min

Nature and Environment

The “Quest for Inspiration” is an immersion into the world of landscape photographer Alexandre Deschaumes. He...

Josh Lowell, Peter Mortimer, Nick Rosen

The Sensei

26 min

Sports in Mountains & Nature

Forty-three-year-old Yuji Hirayama is one of the great legends of modern climbing. Near retirement, he plans one big...

17:00 | Steiermarksaal

Price: 10 € Ticket Order

Hans-Peter Stauber

David Lama - das Unmögliche möglich machen

48 min

Alpinism & Expeditions

The Tyrolean David Lama has climbed an 8a route already at the age of ten, and he has become several times Youth...

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Milena Holzknecht, Alessandro Bandinelli, Matteo Vettorel

First Ascent

38 min

Alpinism & Expeditions

Hansjörg Auer, Matthias Auer and Simon Anthamatten set off for a great goal: the Kunyang Chish East. With its 7.400...

20:00 | Steiermarksaal

Price: 19 € Ticket Order

Brett Schreckengost

64mph (100 km/h

20:00 - 3 min

Sports in Mountains & Nature

Skier and Mountaineer Greg Hope makes an historic descent of the iconic San Joaquin Couloir in Telluride. At first he...

Andreas Thaulow

The Fall

20:03 - 15 min

Sports in Mountains & Nature

Agnes and Ragnar, a couple in their late 20's, are climbing a mountain in Northern Norway. In this potentially deadly...

Cedar Wright

Sufferfest 2: Desert Alpine, Aka 34 pieces of Choss and...

20:18 - 26 min

Sports in Mountains & Nature

Follow the goofy and endearing duo of Alex Honnold and Cedar Wright as they prove that they learned nothing from...

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Karin Duregger

Absolute Freiheit

21:04 - 16 min

Sports in Mountains & Nature

Two young guys parallel valleys and mountains equally. Their call is to become united with nature. Armin and...

Skip Armstrong

Dream

21:20 - 6 min

Sports in Mountains & Nature

When a newbie kayaker goes paddling, he discovers a posse of pros on the river and wonders whether someday he could...

Olaf Obsommer

Bike2Boat Norwegen

21:26 - 22 min

Sports in Mountains & Nature

Norway instead of New Zealand, bicycle instead of aeroplane, tent instead of room. On their journey across Norway,...

16:00 | Kammermusiksaal

Price: 12 € Ticket Order

Josh Lowell, Nick Rosen, Peter Mortimer

Spice Girl

24 min

Sports in Mountains & Nature

The UK climbing scene is known for its strict traditional ethic, yielding dangerous routes and a competitive machismo...

Robert Iseni, Aurélie Saillard

Des marins pas comme les autres (Eine etwas andere Crew)

52 min

Sports in Mountains & Nature

Eric Bellion and Pierre Meisel, two experienced sailors, set themselves a great challenge: recruit a crew made up of...

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Damien Artero

Jor

26 min

Alpinism & Expeditions

People call me an explorer. An adventurer. I am not. I have cycled around the world and in many places, been on many...

Francois Suchel

Sous les ailes de l‘hippocampe (Unter den Schwingen des...

87 min

Sports in Mountains & Nature

One may decide to leave because one has never traveled or, on the contrary, one may choose to travel because one left...

20:30 | Kammermusiksaal

Price: 15 € Ticket Order

Will Taggart

Thinlines

6 min

Sports in Mountains & Nature

Wake boarders pulled across the water by their kites, this is not exceptional. However, that kites are used more and...

Jon Herranz

Novato

18 min

Sports in Mountains & Nature

Francisco Marin, also known "Novato" ("Rookie" in Spanish), is a 61-year-old climber and the only known person in the...

Guido Perrini

Mission Antarctic

39 min

Alpinism & Expeditions

Few years ago snowboarder Xavier De Le Rue came back from a trip to Antarctic with a feeling that he only scratched...

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Aleksander Dario Nilsen, Sohail Kamali

On The Edge

46 min

Sports in Mountains & Nature

33 year old Eskil Ronningsbakken from Norway is the world's most daring extreme balancing artist, praised for his...

from 15:20 | Congress Graz - Blauer Salon

Jean-Daniel Lagant

Ligne De Vie (Lebenslinie)

15:20 - 53 min

Sports in Mountains & Nature

Slack-lining is one of the most recent sport types which is developing quite fast. A young Frenchman is a passionate...

Laurent Jamet

Rise

16:15 - 52 min

Sports in Mountains & Nature

As skiers we are often only interested in one thing: the way down. But the evolution of skiing forces us to conquer...

Axel Gomille

Im Reich des Schneeleoparden

17:10 - 45 min

Nature and Environment

In former days, the snow leopards were quite common in the high mountains of Asia. In Kyrgyzstan there once lived one...

Sam Giffin, Zack Giffin

Winter’s People

17:55 - 13 min

People & Cultures

When we're born, we're all destined to become something. Some of us are lucky enough to become skiers. We grow up,...

Allison Otto

Keeper of the Mountains

18:10 - 25 min

Alpinism & Expeditions

It's odd to consider that the one person who has exhaustively tracked, detailed, and archived Himalayan expeditions...

Evrard Wendenbaum

China Jam

18:35 - 53 min

Alpinism & Expeditions

In their infinite quest for virgin big walls, Belgian adventurers and musicians Sean Villanueva O'Driscoll, Nicolas...

Jochen Schliessler, Nanje de Jong-Teuscher

Magie des Yukon: der Kluane National Park

19:30 - 44 min

Nature and Environment

Pure, almost deserted and pristine: in the southwest of Yukon, the Kluane National Park was founded in 1972, whose...

Saturday, 15. Nov. 2014

14:00 | Stefaniensaal

Price: 9 € Ticket Order

Rolf Bickel

Berg und Bergler – Der Ortler

45 min

People & Cultures

The Ortler rises almost 4.000 metres into the South-Tyrolean sky. It is highly respected by mountaineers alike, a...

Jan Kerckhoff, Susanne Delonge

Faszination Heimat - Rausch des Wassers

50 min

Nature and Environment

Water – its power and its destructiveness, its creative potential and its beauty: this film reveals the importance of...

16:00 | Stefaniensaal

Price: 9 € Ticket Order

Zhou Bing

Buddha und die Schneeleoparden - Einsatz im Himalaya

43 min

Nature and Environment

The snow leopard is a shy animal. In his homeland, the Tibetan High Plateaus, it avoids contact with humans...

Julien Cabon, Vincent Perazio

L’obsession de l’ours (Von Bären besessen)

52 min

Alpinism & Expeditions

Alan, an engineer in polar logistics and Julien, a naval Reporter Officer, have a dream: to reach the North Pole...

19:00 | Stefaniensaal

Price: 15 € Ticket Order

Siegerehrung 2014

Award Ceremony and screening of the prize winning films

09:30 | Steiermarksaal

Price: 9 € Ticket Order

Christoph Hauschild

Der Stechlinsee

44 min

Nature and Environment

Huge forests surround the Lake Stechlin and protect it from the impacts of modern agriculture. Therefore the lake is...

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Ingolf Baur, Johannes Steinbronn

Das Ende der Natur

29 min

Nature and Environment

Our idea of nature is dominated by a black-or-white thinking structure. According to this, nature is good per se. It...

Manfred Corinne

Mythos Ausseerland

55 min

People & Cultures

One of Europe’s most picturesque and particular regions is located exactly in the geographic centre of Austria: the...

14:30 | Steiermarksaal

Price: 12 € Ticket Order

Simon Platzer

From A to K and BaCk again

25 min

Sports in Mountains & Nature

A group of skiers arrives in Juneau (Alaska) by plane. Their baggage got lost, the weather is bad and they don’t...

Karsten Scheuren

Sieben Tage im September

80 min

Alpinism & Expeditions

On September 30th, 2012 the German Benedikt Böhm from Munich set a new record in the Himalayas. In only 15 hours he...

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Jochen Hemmleb, Tom Dauer, Günther Göberl

Das letzte Wort hat der Berg - Pioniere am Matterhorn

52 min

Alpinism & Expeditions

This episode of the series „The Six Big North Faces of the Alps“, accompanies the young mountain guide Michael Lerjen...

Thomas Miklautsch

The Amazon Dive

24 min

Sports in Mountains & Nature

Cliff diver Orlando Duque is a man known for going deep – but this time it's not only deep water, it's the deep...

09:00 | Kammermusiksaal

Price: 9 € Ticket Order

Jan Haft

Geheimnisvoller Garten - Erntezeit

45 min

Nature and Environment

In our gardens live animals which are hardly known. Many of them are auxiliaries of the gardener in his battle...

Viktor Stauder

Unbekannte Antarktis - Expedition durch Queen Maud Land

43 min

Alpinism & Expeditions

The Antarctic is a land of extremes. On a huge ice sheet there rule absolute loneliness and an unpredictable climate...

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Pavol Barabás

Footprints on the Ridge

53 min

Sports in Mountains & Nature

Western, High, and Belianske Tatras. They are connected by a gorgeous, logical and long ridge line formed by more...

15:00 | Kammermusiksaal

Price: 12 € Ticket Order

Marcel Barelli

Vigia

8 min

Nature and Environment

My grandfather is telling me a story that he invented and asks me to make a film out of it: Because of pollution,...

Anthony Bonello, Nicolas Teichrob

Stand

46 min

Nature and Environment

With an oil pipeline proposal comes talk of what there is to be gained. The film asks the question, ‘What do we stand...

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John Gussman, Jessica Plumb

Return of the River

70 min

Nature and Environment

"Return of the River" follows a group of people that attempt the impossible: to change the opinion of a town and the...

from 09:00 | Congress Graz - Blauer Salon

Corinna Wirth

Eine Expedition durch Tansania - Die Klimawelt des...

09:00 - 43 min

Nature and Environment

With its 5900 metre and seven climate zones, from the African Savannah up to the Arctic glaciers, the Kilimanjaro...

Tilman Achtnich, Claus Hanischdörfer

Drama am Gipfel – Teil 2

09:45 - 44 min

Alpinism & Expeditions

Life and death in the mountains, dealing with avalanches, ice, rock, and exhaustion, confrontation with oneself,...

Jürgen Eichinger

Die Stimme der Donau

10:30 - 44 min

Nature and Environment

The Danube flows for approximately 600 km through Germany, from the source in the Black Forest to the border near...

Thomas Behrend

Mythos Kongo – Im Reich der Menschenaffen

11:15 - 48 min

Nature and Environment

The river Kongo, mighty and dangerous like no other river, nevertheless constitutes a refugium and home for some of...

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Iris Gesang, Andreas Kieling

Kielings wilde Welt (Folge 3)

13:05 - 44 min

Nature and Environment

In this sequence, Andreas Kieling travels to Africa in order to film the extremely rare Ethiopian wolves, a very...

Véronique, Anne & Erik Lapied

Lhamo, l’enfant de l‘himalaya

13:50 - 60 min

People & Cultures

“My name is Lhamo. I was born high up there, between the highest summits on earth, and I will tell you the story of...

Klaus Scheurich

Karussell des Lebens - Die Streuobstwiese

14:55 - 44 min

Nature and Environment

Just as the seasons follow one another, all creatures must struggle on their own for survival and are yet dependent...

Katharina Schickling

Als unsere Berge Schifahren lernten – Goldrausch im Gebirge

15:40 - 45 min

People & Cultures

This film presents the history of a revolution, the evolution from mountains to ski resorts. In the 1950ies and 60ies...

Hanno Mackowitz

Dasein

16:25 - 19 min

Sports in Mountains & Nature

Besides roaring freeride action and technical skiing from the two protagonists Stefan Häusl and Björn Heregger, this...

Frank Mirbach

Schneekrieg in den Rocky Mountains

16:45 - 44 min

Nature and Environment

Snow-covered mountains, narrow valleys and endless forests mark the Rocky Mountains in northern British Columbia in...

Andrea Rüthlein

Wolfsliebe

17:30 - 29 min

Nature and Environment

Slavc and Giulietta – two wolves who were born a long distance away from each other, but nevertheless have found each...

Florian Guthknecht

Expedition Mittelmeer – die Letzten ihrer Art

18:00 - 45 min

Nature and Environment

One of the most varied living spaces on earth and at the same time holiday destination of millions of people is the...