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Tuesday, 13. Nov. 2018

17:00 | Steiermarksaal

Price: 11 €

Rosie Koch & Roland Gockel

52 min

The north of Oman offers a rich landscape, extending from the sea coast, where its capital Maskat and the ship... mehr info >

Franz Hafner

Russlands wildes Meer - Jahre im Überfluss

51 min

In the far east of Russia, about 6,000 km from Moscow, there is the richest, and, at the same time, the most hostile... mehr info >

19:00 | Steiermarksaal

Price: 19 €

Teresa Hoerl

Choices

21 min

Steph Davis has chosen climbing over lawyering. When she was 20, she dropped out of college, giving up a future... mehr info >

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20 min

Having fun on the Sch mehr info >

Jeremy Grant

North Of Nightfall

65 min

Hidden among the glaciers on Axel Heiberg Island, high in the Arctic Circle, are mountain bike lines too incredible... mehr info >

17:00 | Schubert Saal 1

Price: 9 €

Thomas Miklautsch

Entre Rios

26 min

Orlando Duque, after 20 years living outside of Colombia, returned to his hometown Cali. Meanwhile a cliff diving... mehr info >

Sean Villanueva O'Driscoll

Let It flow

25 min

The Vjosa is Europe mehr info >

Paul Diffley

The Ario Dream

42 min

Under lush Alpine pastures there exists a different world. Eternal darkness, dripstones and mystic water ways which... mehr info >

19:30 | Schubert Saal 1

Price: 9 €

Beat Bieri

Die R

93 min

Switzerland is an over-exploited country. Thousands of animal and plant species are threatened with extinction. But... mehr info >

17:00 | Schubert Saal 2

Price: 9 €

Jürgen Hansen & Simone Stripp

Die R

44 min

Before the wolves returned to the oldest national park in the world, the wapiti had breeded almost unhindered for... mehr info >

Harald Pokieser

Wildes Uganda

50 min

Uganda unites the entire magic of Eastern Africa. On the western border of Uganda, the snow-covered, over 5,000... mehr info >

19:30 | Schubert Saal 2

Price: 9 €

Felix Randau

Der Mann aus dem Eis

93 min

5,300 years ago, in the Young Stone Age. A big family lives peacefully on a river bank in the mehr info >

17:00 | Schubert Saal 3

Price: 9 €

Petra Höfer, Freddie Röckenhaus

Unsere W

44 min

Spring, summer, autumn and winter do not only bring colour to our forests, they also open short time windows, which... mehr info >

Melissa Lesh, Tim Laman

Person Of The Forest

17 min

In the vanishing lowland rainforests of Borneo, new research is underway to uncover and understand the unique... mehr info >

Volker Schmidt-Sondermann

Die Odyssee der einsamen W

44 min

Central Europe sees the return of a long dreaded but also mythologized predator. The discussion about the risks and... mehr info >

19:30 | Schubert Saal 3

Price: 9 €

Ben Tibbetts

A Line In The Snow - Greece

9 min

Skiing in Greece? This seems a bit exotic. Because of the increasing lack of snow in the Alps, skiers have to look... mehr info >

Jason Hancox

The Sky Piercer

43 min

New Zealand is a country for adventurers. Sam Smoothy wants to attempt nothing less than free skiing on Mount Cook,... mehr info >

Chris Eyre-Walker

Dreamwalkers - The Faroes Project

29 min

Dreamwalkers tells the story of four friends who set out on a journey to the Faroe Islands to be the first to... mehr info >

Ben Page

The Frozen Road

24 min

This is a winter journey into the Canadian Arctic as Ben Page completed his bike ride up the American continent... mehr info >

Wednesday, 14. Nov. 2018

17:00 | Steiermarksaal

Price: 11 €

Andrea Gastgeb

Unsere extreme Welt - H

50 min

The arid high planes of the Atacama Desert, the mist-shrouded island mountains in Sri Lanka, the snow-covered... mehr info >

Maurício Dias

Mission Amazonas

43 min

Only thanks to the new technologies of satellite maps, have scientists discovered an almost 2000m high mountain chain... mehr info >

19:00 | Steiermarksaal

Price: 19 €

Mathieu Le Lay

In The Starlight

53 min

During the darkest hours of the night, while the rest of the world is sleeping, outdoor photographer Paul Zizka... mehr info >

Klaus Höfler

The Speed Project 4.0 - Team Austria

30 min

It sounds crazy, it is crazy! From Los Angeles to Las Vegas, a nonstop relay race challenge. From the coast to the... mehr info >

Kleine Zeitung Fotowettbewerb Siegerehrung

20 min

The award ceremony of the mehr info >

Lisa Röösli

Ein Amateur am Elbrus

52 min

With its height of 5,642 metres, the Elbrus is the highest mountain of Europe and thus counts among the mehr info >

17:00 | Schubert Saal 1

Price: 9 €

Neil Gelinas

Into The Okavango

94 min

The Okavango River Basin provides a vital source of water to about 1 million people, the world mehr info >

19:30 | Schubert Saal 1

Price: 9 €

Nicolas Falquet

Marcel On The Top Of His Art

24 min

MARCEL REMY mehr info >

Pete Mortimer, Josh Lowell

Durch die Wand - The Dawn Wall

104 min

In January 2015, two Americans gave rise to a world-wide media spectacle. Climber icon Tommy Caldwell and his roped... mehr info >

17:00 | Schubert Saal 2

Price: 9 €

Etienne Merel

The Faction Collective Presents: La Grave

18 min

La Grave enjoys an almost mythic reputation among freeriders. Interminable downhills, ice gullies and overhangs in... mehr info >

Malte Roeper

Thomas, der Huberbua

42 min

Thomas Huber, like his brother Alexander, has succeeded in making a profession out of his passion for climbing... mehr info >

Jim Aikman

Hold Fast

56 min

Conrad Anker is one of the greatest and most notorious professional mountain climbers in history. But at 54, his... mehr info >

19:30 | Schubert Saal 2

Price: 9 €

Johannes Aitzetmüller, Jeb Hardwick

Parasol Peak

30 min

Together with a film and audio-crew, seven musicians set off on a mountain tour across the Tyrolean Alps. In... mehr info >

Matt Pycroft

Place of the Gaels

28 min

Scottland, the land of the Gaeles, has not only interesting weather to offer, so it is said. The American... mehr info >

Hanno Mackowitz

Struktur

12 min

Seen from a different perspective, ski lifts become geometric forms, which seem to leave their original purpose... mehr info >

Julien Huger

Stations

23 min

The Alps in winter. Men and machines engage in a strange ballet to shape the mountain. The territory resists and... mehr info >

17:00 | Schubert Saal 3

Price: 9 €

Chang-yong Moon & Jin Jeon

Becoming Who I Was

95 min

Padma Angdu's world turns upside down when the monastery where he belonged expels him. Although he is recognized as a mehr info >

19:30 | Schubert Saal 3

Price: 9 €

Verena Schönauer

Mythos Gotthard - Pass der Pioniere

90 min

The Gotthard Pass counts among the most important Alpine crossings in Europe. The story of its development from a... mehr info >

Thursday, 15. Nov. 2018

19:30 | Stefaniensaal

Price: 21 €

Richard Berry

Pillars

6 min

This short film looks at three distinct regions of Nepal, the bustling streets of Kathmandu, Jyamrung, a rural... mehr info >

Siegfried Giuliani

Zur

30 min

At the beginning of May 1978, the first Austrians reached the summit of Mount Everest. A few days later, Reinhold... mehr info >

30 min

Has entering the so called mehr info >

Reinhold Messner

Mount Everest - Der letzte Schritt

60 min

This spectacular documentation recalls the story behind the daring adventure of Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler on... mehr info >

17:00 | Steiermarksaal

Price: 14 €

Hubert Neufeld

Kernholz

8 min

In the Styrian mountain village of Oppenberg and its surrounding forests, one can observe the freelance artist Armin... mehr info >

Alice Agneskirchner

Auf der Jagd - Wem geh

97 min

Wolves roam the German forests, as do boars, foxes, deer, chamois as well as people. We decide, which animals may be... mehr info >

from 16:05 | Congress Graz - Blauer Salon

Price: 12 €

A ticket for one of the main program blocks (Stefaniensaal, Steiermarksaal oder Kammermusiksaal) grants access to the whole Program of "Blauer Salon" and "Grüner Salon" on the day the ticket is valid for.
This year, Mountainfilm Graz also offers special "Salon-only"-tickets.
Mehr Information zu den Salonkarten

Barbara Puskás

Ungez

16:05 - 52 min

Albania, located in south-eastern Europe, between Greece, Macedonia, Kosovo and Montenegro, boasts a breathtakingly... mehr info >

Ralf Blasius

Expedition Europa - Die Verwandlung des Kontinents

17:00 - 52 min

From the snow-covered Alpine summits to the wide Danube delta and the hot south of Spain mehr info >

Dr. Peter-Hugo Scholz

Peaks of the Balkans - Im Himalaya des Balkan

17:55 - 27 min

Only 20 years ago, hundreds of thousands of people fled on foot from the Kosovo across the mountains to Montenegro... mehr info >

Vida Valencic

14+1 Nives Meroi and Romano Benet

18:25 - 48 min

Shot entirely in the area of the mountains Canin, Mangart and Vr mehr info >

Guillaume Broust

Maewan Adventure Base

19:05 - 19 min

The Maewan project is a four-year, multi-stage, voyage around the world. It's a floating base camp for mountain... mehr info >

Alexander Hick

Thinking Like A Mountain

19:25 - 91 min

On the highest mountain in Columbia, the Sierra Nevada Santa Marta, there is war mehr info >

Astrid Miller

Das Comeback der Wildschweine

20:55 - 43 min

In many European regions, the boars had been completely exterminated or chased away, however, the boars have come... mehr info >

Ulf Marquardt

Wunderwelt Schweiz - Wasser & Eis

21:40 - 50 min

The four biggest rivers in Europe mehr info >

Friday, 16. Nov. 2018

15:30 | Stefaniensaal

Price: 14 €

Jan Haft

Magie der Fjorde

50 min

Norway has the highest number of fjords in the world. Sometimes they extend up to 200 km into the land, where, in the... mehr info >

Martin Dohrn und Joe Loncraine

Die Superkolonie - Waldameisen ganz gro

52 min

The Jura National Park in the alpine Franco-Swiss borderlands is the setting of a truly epical saga. This is the... mehr info >

19:00 | Stefaniensaal

Price: 25 €

Multivisionsvortrag von Alexander Huber: "Die...

90 min

Alexander Huber climbs in the steep spheres of the vertical world. UIAA 11 is a grade, that many sport climbers... mehr info >

15:00 | Steiermarksaal

Price: 11 €

Zoe Borzi

The First Step

4 min

How do you reach a goal? Usually you start with the first step. In the film mehr info >

Jonas Julian Köck

Instant Film Adventures

6 min

Bastian Kalous is fascinated by two things: large format photography and wild nature. For his work he uses old... mehr info >

Oliver Goetzl

Polarw

52 min

The two wildlife filmmakers Oliver Goetzl and Ivo N mehr info >

17:00 | Steiermarksaal

Price: 14 €

Karel Vlček

Sand Climbing - The Seventies

34 min

Climbing in the Czech sand rock areas, seen through the eyes of Karel Vlc?ek. With his AK 16 camera and Nikon Camera... mehr info >

Ulf Wogenstein

Wege nach Innen

12 min

He has succeeded in climbing some of the world mehr info >

Guillaume Broust

The World's Best Belayer

10 min

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Jochen Schmoll

The A.O.

20 min

Adam Ondra is one of the most successful and skilled climbers of our days. With mehr info >

Will Lascelles

The Land of Maybe

15 min

Three dynamic climbers- Cedar Wright, James Pearson and Yuji Hirayama, take a trip to the remote Faroe Islands on the... mehr info >

20:00 | Steiermarksaal

Price: 23 €

Erick Grigorovski

Uruca II - Bugaboos Edition

8 min

Hugo and Lipe are back on the wall, a remote spire, actually, in the middle of the glaciers, to face all challenges... mehr info >

Matty Hong, Peter Mortimer, Nick Rosen

Break On Through

26 min

In high-end modern rock climbing, 5.15 is the top of the difficulty scale, a grade achieved by only a few men and... mehr info >

Lie Feng

Searching for Christmas Tree

15 min

A university teacher who wants to break free from a life of routine in China, falls under the spell of a mysterious... mehr info >

Simon Platzer & Jakob Schweighofer

Stirb langsam

16 min

Michi Wohlleben can hardly tame his ambition. As an alpinist he achieves one top performance after another and he is... mehr info >

Werner Bertolan

100 Jahre Huberbuam - Blut is dicker wia Wossa

48 min

In the climbing world, no other pair of brothers is better known than Thomas and Alexander Huber from Berchtesgaden... mehr info >

16:00 | Kammermusiksaal

Price: 14 €

Andrea Rüthlein

Wildnis am Lago Maggiore

45 min

Since the 18th century, Lake Maggiore between the Italian Switzerland and Northern Italy has attracted wealthy guests... mehr info >

Lutz Maurer

45 min

The Schafberg Mountain is a mountain with two faces. From the south, from St. Wolfgang, you can easily reach the... mehr info >

Mathias Peschta

Der Damavand - Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner und Peter...

48 min

In 1843, the Austrian botanist Theodor Kotschy climbed the 5,671m high Damavand in the Elburs Mountains. This dead... mehr info >

Pavol Barabas

Addicted To Altitude

63 min

In the late 20th century, Slovakian Himalaya expeditions achieved great successes. In a time of communist staging and... mehr info >

20:30 | Kammermusiksaal

Price: 19 €

Anne et Erik Lapied

Les Ma

69 min

Two eagle chicks are born high up on a big cliff. This is the beginning of a story, which shows us the animal world... mehr info >

Jan Haft

Wo sind die Schmetterlinge hin?

44 min

Many people are aware that over the past years fewer and fewer of the colourful butterflies can be seen in our... mehr info >

from 14:15 | Congress Graz - Blauer Salon

Price: 12 €

Annette Scheurich

Grizzlys hautnah - B

14:15 - 44 min

It is hard to believe, but the biggest enemy of brown bears is hunger. In the springtime, when the grizzlies leave... mehr info >

Philippe Steinmayr

Heading North

15:00 - 16 min

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Lukasz Borowski

Runners

15:15 - 72 min

The participants of an extreme race run over 300 kilometers in 48 hours. During two days they don't sleep, don't... mehr info >

Sandra Lahnsteiner

Shades of Winter COUPLES

16:30 - 16 min

Creative producer Sandra Lahnsteiner (AUT) introduces a new aspect of her female action sport protagonists, when... mehr info >

Mike Douglas

Liv Along The Way

16:50 - 25 min

Since she first summited Mont Blanc as a teen, Liv Sansoz knew she would make her life in the mountains. She was... mehr info >

Matthias Mayr

No Man

17:15 - 71 min

The Antarctic is the coldest, driest, windiest and highest continent on earth. Skiing in the inner Antarctic is... mehr info >

from 18:30 | Congress Graz - Blauer Salon

Price: 12 €

Jean-Michel Corillion

Namoroka, Terra Incognita

18:30 - 90 min

The mysterious Namoroka Tsingy is the last unexplored area of Madagascar. For the first time, world-class scientists... mehr info >

Bernhard Rübe

Wonders Of The Caribbean - Corals & Quetzals

20:00 - 52 min

Caribbean coral coasts and islands, formed out of living and once-living creatures, are now a labyrinth of life... mehr info >

Lothar Frenz

Winzige Wunder - Die Wiese des Schreckens

20:55 - 43 min

You love horror films? Cruel deaths, mass murderers and tricky killers? Do wondrous escapes in the last second give... mehr info >

Petra Höfer, Freddie Röckenhaus

Unsere W

21:40 - 44 min

Mushrooms build their own mehr info >

Petra Höfer, Freddie Röckenhaus

Zugv

22:25 - 44 min

The lavishly produced mehr info >

Saturday, 17. Nov. 2018

13:30 | Stefaniensaal

Price: 11 €

Oliver Goetzl

White Wolves

56 min

At the very northern edge of Canada lies Ellesmere Island, where the unforgiving Arctic winds tear through the... mehr info >

Erik Baláž

Die Hohe Tatra - Leben am Abgrund

50 min

The Tatra Mountains loom far above the clouds mehr info >

16:00 | Stefaniensaal

Price: 14 €

Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Free Solo

100 min

Free Solo: mastering the ultimate self-control! Alone and without any technical safety, Alex Honold a climbing icon... mehr info >

19:00 | Stefaniensaal

Price: 25 €

Siegerehrung & Lange Nacht des Bergfilms

300 min

At the award ceremony the winners of Mountainfilm Graz mehr info >

09:30 | Steiermarksaal

Price: 11 €

Beat Bieri

Der Wildheuer

50 min

One Sunday in July 2016 was a black Sunday for the Gisler Family. The 62-year old mountain farmer from Urn, Sepp... mehr info >

Joey Schusler

RJ Ripper

20 min

Kids and bikes; wherever you are in the world, they go together. The chaotic streets of Kathmandu may not seem like a... mehr info >

Tina Radke-Gerlach

Die Reise meines Lebens

30 min

In 2002, Ruby was 3 years old when she was adopted by a German couple in Nepal. Today, the 17-year old fun-loving... mehr info >

15:00 | Steiermarksaal

Price: 14 €

Alexander Preuss

Lena will Menschen retten

25 min

Lena, from F mehr info >

Bernadette Hauke

Lukas der Kletterer

25 min

Luk mehr info >

Stefan Fritsche

Golden Line Verdon

18 min

The mehr info >

Carina Brunnauer

Evolution Of Dreams

26 min

What happens if the passion for your dreams fades away? Do you just stop dreaming? Or do you search for the missing... mehr info >

09:30 | Kammermusiksaal

Price: 11 €

Brigitte Kornberger

Alpine Rebellen - Zwischen Wahnsinn und Winterm

29 min

Every year, the Austrian and German ski resorts push the limits of the possible further and further, staging ever... mehr info >

Frank Gensthaler

Wanderer gegen Mountainbiker - Showdown am...

31 min

Today, hikers and cyclists often meet even on the remotest summits. A meeting that does not always end peacefully... mehr info >

Jure Breceljnik, Rožle Bregar

The Last Ice Hunters

71 min

Merely 3000 people inhabit East Greenland mehr info >

14:30 | Kammermusiksaal

Price: 14 €

Christian Schmidt

Congenialità - The Attitude Of Gratitude

30 min

Simone Moro and Tamara Lunger are an unequal roped team, with great goals and a difference of age of 18 years. The... mehr info >

Jérôme Tanon

Zabardast

55 min

This multi-voice adventure and expedition film is an intimate travel diary. The setting is a remote glacier in the... mehr info >

Jen Randall

Psycho Vertical

64 min

Based on his best-selling auto-biography mehr info >

Juliane Möcklinghoff

Der blinde Mann und der Berg

30 min

The Lienz Dolomites are his mehr info >

from 10:30 | Congress Graz - Blauer Salon

Price: 12 €

Mirjana Momirovic & Caroline Haertel

Der alte Mann und der Storch

10:30 - 51 min

Stjepan Vokic has lost his heart to a stork lady. For 24 years, the pensioned concierge has cared selflessly for the... mehr info >

Jürgen Eichinger

11:25 - 44 min

Birds of prey are fascinating animals with their unique sensory abilities, stunning aerobatics and sophisticated... mehr info >

Iris Gesang

Kielings wilde Welt - Die Letzten ihrer Art

12:10 - 44 min

The wildlife filmmaker Andreas Kieling accompanies scientists all over the world and thus gains access to specially... mehr info >

Benjamin Sadd

DugOut

12:55 - 53 min

Ben and James have been on several 'adventures' together. Making films about their trips has become a part of the... mehr info >

from 13:50 | Congress Graz - Blauer Salon

Price: 12 €

Daniel Asadi Faezi

The Absence Of Apricots

13:50 - 49 min

A remote mountain village in the north of Pakistan, on the shore of a turquoise blue lake, surrounded by rugged rock... mehr info >

Siegfried Giuliani

Rekorde am Everest

14:40 - 70 min

On the 8th of May 1978, Reinhold Messner from the Italian South-Tyrol and Peter Habeler from the Austrian Tyrol... mehr info >

Michael Düchs

Pirmin Bertle

16:10 - 27 min

He has done first ascents of the most difficult climbing routes in South America as well as in Switzerland... mehr info >

Henna Taylor

Wadi Rum

16:45 - 33 min

In the expansive landscape of Jordan mehr info >

Pete Wyllie

The Lorax Project

17:20 - 35 min

Six friends embark on a determined quest to climb, and then BASE jump 'The Lorax', a formidable climb on Frenchman's... mehr info >

Flo Gassner

Home Stories

17:55 - 9 min

In student life the longing for a perfect powder snow slope can become overwhelming. But what are good friends for,... mehr info >

Anne-Flore Marxer u. Aline Bock

A Land Shaped By Women

18:05 - 26 min

The two snowboard professionals Aline Bock/GER and Anne-Flore Marxer/SUI are travelling through Iceland; to get to... mehr info >