Competition

(To life!)
by Sandro Gastinelli, Marzia Pellegrino
95’, Italy, 2010
CLIP
In the woods of Prea, in the western Alps, a group of friends wants to relive, using the clothing and tools of the past, the epic of the buscatiè, the woodsmen of the Ellero Valley.

by Nino Orjonikidze, Vano Arsenishvili
30’, Georgia, 2009
TRAILER
In the small Georgian village of Pankisi Gorge, the old woman Altzaney is an authority. She is the only person people turn to as a mediator in affairs of daily life and in those of death.

(On Grünten)
by Gerhard Baur
43’, Germany, 2009
CLIP
On the steep slopes of the Grünten, the “guardian of the Allgäu”, it is possible to understand the profound relationshiop between men and the mountains that dates back generations and remains alive today.

(Reflection)
by Giorgi Mrevlishvili
11’, Germany, Georgia, 2010
CLIP
The splendid village of Ushguli, in Georgia, is located in one of the most elevated inhabited areas of Europe. In August of 2009, a screen for outdoor cinema was installed in the village...

(Mountain Blood)
by Philipp J. Pamer
120’, Germany, 2010
TRAILER
1809. Katharina, a young Bavarian girl, is forced to follow her husband to the mountains of Tyrol. Here she will live through the tragic events of the revolutionary war led by Andreas Hofer.

(Shut Up, Kid!)
by Gion Tschuor
25’, Switzerland, 2009
TRAILER
Up until the 1970s, children were sent to work in mountain huts as shepherds' helpers. The memories of those who lived through those summers are of exploitation, loneliness, fear, and violence suffered. 

(From Father to Daughter)
by  Micol Cossali
50’, Italy, 2009
CLIP
Sonia divides her time between university studies and work in the cheese-making hut where she spends every summer, at 2200 metres, along with her father and brothers.

(Dolma From the Middle of Nowhere)
by Anne, Véronique, Erik Lapied
65’, France, 2008
TRAILER
In the heart of the Himalayas, the river Zanskar can be crossed only when frozen. This river separates these high, arid valleys from the rest of the world, and separates Dolma from her husband, Stanzin.

by Eszter Cseke
22’, Hungary, 2008
CLIP
In a long-lost village in Romania only one girl, Elena, remains. Can the young men who cannot find a wife hold out hope for her, or is Elena only a mirage?

(Happiness)
by Salomé Aleksi
30’, Georgia, 2009
CLIP
Tamara lives and works illegally in Italy. Her husband dies in a car accident. She cannot return to Georgia, and so she decides to take part in the funeral by telephone.

(Himalaya, a Path to the Sky)
by Marianne Chaud
65’, France, 2009
TRAILER
In the monastery of Phuktal, at 4000 metres above sea level, in Himalayan Zanskar, Buddhist monks live separated from the rest of the world, as in the Middle Ages. Among them is little Kenrap, 8 years old.

(Yellow Sheep River)
by Soung Liu
95’, Taiwan, 2009
CLIP
The notes and music of a blind musician accompany nineteen views of life in a Chinese mountain village. Landscapes, faces, and sounds mark daily life throughout the seasons.

(In Another World)
by Joseph Péaquin
75’, Italy, 2009
CLIP
The daily routine, the relationship with animals, the silences, the solitude, and the harshness of the mountains as experienced by Dario Favre, caretaker of the Gran Paradiso National Park.

(The Dam)
by Jorge Rivero
16’, Spain, 2008
CLIP
In 1946, the project of the artificial basin of Salime, in the mountains of Asturia began. A young artist paints a large mural in the hall of the turbines.

(La Yerbabuena - A Community in Resistance)
by Nicolas Défossé
39’, Mexico, 2008
CLIP
The inhabitants of La Yerbabuena are forced to evacuate their land at the foot of a large volcano. Some of them, with the help of the Zapatistas, decide to fight and remain.

(The Horse of Everest)
by Bernard Germain
53’, France, 2009
CLIP
To help himself overcome the tragic death of his brother, a young sherpa, Gurmen, decides to buy a horse to rent out. His search turns into a crazy adventure among the Himalayan villages. 

(The Mysteries of Snaefellsjökull)
by Jean-Michel Roux
46’, France, 2009
TRAILER
Jules Verne indicated the glacial volcano of Snaefellsjökull, in Iceland, as the passageway to the center of the earth. To near this mythic mountain is to fall under the spell of its mystery.
 

(Chasm)
by Wojciech Kasperski
33’, Poland, 2009
CLIP
A solitary gold-digger in the mountains of Siberia lives with one hope: to find his treasure. Isolated from the world and living in an inhospitable region, his desire has become an obsession.

(The Flower Bridge)
by Thomas Ciulei
87’, Romania, 2008
CLIP
Costica is raising his three children in the village of Acui, in Moldavia. His wife left for Italy in search of work three and a half years ago, and has not yet returned.

(If you Desire Miracles)
by André Costantin, Nivaldo Pereira
40’, Brasil, 2010
CLIP
The capitals set up by the emigrants to Antonio Prado, in the mountains of the Rio Grande do Sul, are the same as those found in the Veneto mountains. The inhabitants of both areas also share the same faith and small, everyday miracles.

by Dmytro Glukhenkyi
12’, Ukraine, 2008
CLIP
Ivan and Mrychka live with their family in the Carpazi mountains. Their lives are marked by the rhythms and traditions handed down for generations.

(The Village)
by Stelios Polychronakis
14’, Greece, 2010
TRAILER
A doctor is called urgently to a mountain village. When he arrives, after a long and difficult journey, he realizes that the village is completely deserted.

by Gastón Vizcarra
20’, Perù, 2009
CLIP
In Andian mythology the Ukuku is a creature, half bear and half man, who climbs the mountains to bring ice to men. What would happen if there were no more ice up there?

by Moritz Mayerhofer
10’, Germany, 2009
CLIP
For years, in a dark, deserted village, Urs has looked after his elderly mother. One day he decides to leave with her and to climb the mountain toward the sun that illuminates its peak.

by Yassine El Idrissi
38’, Morocco, 2009
CLIP
The tourists who crowd into the Ifrane ski resort, in the mountains of Morocco, are not aware of the poverty of the local population and of little Ismaïl who, like, them, is waiting for the snow.

(Wild Pyrenees - Mountains of Light)
by Jürgen Eichinger
44’, Germany, 2009
CLIP
The Pyrenees extend for more than 400 kilometres of massifs, lush forests, waterfalls, mountain lakes, and plants and animals in a unique landscape that stretches between the Mediterranean sea and the Atlantic ocean.