(Borderless, Part One)
by Radmila Gordić
10’, Mini DV, Italy, 2008

In a faraway place, in the rocky mountains of Serbia, a mountaineer reflects on the destiny of war-torn, ex-Yugoslavia.

by Kiko Ruiz Claverol
19’, Digital Betacam, Spain, 2007

A man escapes the stress of the city to enjoy a couple of peaceful days in the mountains, but with his iPod, latest mountain bike and computer?!

 

by Bari Pearlman
68’, Digital Betacam, USA, 2007

In the nunnery of Kala Rogo, in a remote corner of Tibet, smiling, young nuns lead a life of meditation, work and song.

(Becoming a Woman in Zanskar)
by Jean-Michel Corillon
86’, Ditigal Betacam, France, 2006

Two girlfriends leave their village in the Himalayas and take separate paths towards womanhood: one chooses the monastic life, the other, an arranged marriage.

(Inheriting the Farm)
by Matti Bauer
45’, Digital Betacam, Germany, 2008

At the family farm in Bavaria, Uschi chose to become a farmer and a mother while facing the competing mindsets of old and new generations.

(The Four Alps)
by Jeremy Hogarth
51’, Digital Betacam, Germania, 2007

There are four mountain ranges in the world called the Alps - in Europe, New Zealand, Australia and Japan - and they all preserve an incredibly precious ecosystem.

(Mountain Echo. Word’s Journey)
by André Costantin
44’, HDV, Brasile, 2008

The ancient cimbro idiom becomes a bridge between Italian mountain pastures of the Lessinia and theAsiago and the mountains of the Rio Grande do Sul.

(Beyond the Forest)
by Gerald Igor Hauzenberger
78', 35 mm, Colour, Austria, 2007

An old man and woman are the last members of a Germanspeaking minority in Transylvania. With their deaths, their culture will disappear.

by Mario Casella and Fulvio Mariani
44', Ditigal Betacam, Italy, 2007

An orchestra, with musiciants coming from different republics of the Caucases, play in order to demonstrate that peaceful coexistence is possible in this religion.

(Höfats - The Unique Mountain)
by Gerhard Baur
44', Digital Betacam, Germany, 2007

On the steep meadows of the Höfats, the greatest of the Allgäu, where hay once cut, wild flora can be discovered admist the peaceful silence.

by Diego Quemada-Diez
11', 35 mm, Kenya, Mexico, Spain, 2006

In the dephts of the shantytowns of East Africa, on the Nairobi plain at 1800 meters, a 12 year-old boy has only a dream.

by Lucien Muntean and Nataša Stanković
52', Mini DV, Serbia, 2007

A journey in the mountains of the Himalayas with a red refrigerator on his shoulders, 17 year-old Hari Rai is one of 60,000 boy porters of Nepal.

(If I Win a Million)
by Anna Dranitsina
23', Betacam SP, Russia, 2008

The advent of electronic games, wirh their many false illusions, perturbs the serene life of those living on the Altaj plain.

(Minor Apocalypse)
by Alvaro Petricig
41', Betacam SP, Italy/Slovenia, 2008

The deayh of Cisgne, a small village in the Valli del Nastione, is transformed into a documentary of images and sounds reminescent of science-fiction.

(Manuel and the Cloud-Sheeps)
by Sylvia Rothe
30', Mini DV, Germany, 2007

Little Manuel plays, studies and works as a shepard in the Val Senales. In June, he follows the sheep in their exausting trek towaeds Otztal.

(On the Sunny Side of the Alps)
by Janez Burger
15', 35 mm, Slovenia, 2007

In a place where the sun shines more than it does in Africa, You don't need a car to become a mountaineer but you do have to climb to the top of the mountain and...

by Björn Reinhardt
80', DV-Cam, Romania, 2007

A small town in the mountains of Romania, its last remaining residents, the snow, the colors of the houses, the songs, and the fear that it's all about to end.

(Oh My God! Mountain Assistance)
by Sandro Gastinelli and Marzia Pellegrino
62', DV-Cam, Italy, 2008

Housecalls paid to the sick and elderly by the Health Care Assistants of the Valle Varàita represent the generosity and hope of the mountain.

(Hit Me but Take Me with You)
by Romina Romano Bostos
30', Mini DV, Italy, 2006

In a lost corner of the Andes, children recount their school days in the mountains, waiting only for the last day when they can finally go home.

(Summer Frost)
by August Pflugfelder
44', Digital Betacam, Germany, 2007

Working in the stall, drinking beer, going to the disco and to mass, Ferdinand, the third of three brothers, looks for a girlfriend with whom to share his dream and life.

(Stories in Four Languages)
di Erica Barbiani, Elena Vera Tomasin e Sergio Beltrame
50', HDV, Italy, 2006

Plurilinguism is a precious gift. Friulian, Slovenian, German and Italian spoken on the mountains of the friuli Venezia Giulia, between Italy, Austria and Slovenia.

(On the Trail of the Fox)
by Jérôme Bouvier
52', Digital Betacam, Betacam SP, DV-Cam, France, 2007

Is it possible that a fox, a wild and untrustworthy animal, could become such a friend to man that it could actually be the protgonist of a film?

(Bee's Territory. Human's Landscape)
by Daniel Orte Menchero
81', Mini DV, Spain, 2007

For centuries mountaineers have written their history on the majestic book of the Pyrennee landscape. In recent decades, they have been recording its destruction.

by Salome Jashi
22', Betacam SP, Georgia, 2006

What can you do with a helicopter that has crashed in a longlost corner of the Georgia mountains? Make it into a park, a fence, a stall... anything really!

(The Thirst of a Stone Sea)
by Vladimir Perović
78', DV-Cam, Montenegro, 2007

Time passes as slowly as the ancient gestures and stony looks of its inhabitants in the region of Cuce, southwest of Montenegro.

(Between Bavaria and Tyrol – Nature in the Karwendel Mountains)
by Christian Herrmann
44', Digital Betacam, Germany, 2007

From the earth to the sky to the wings of an eagle, the wild nature of Karawendel unfolds over the course of a year admist new and surprising perspectives.