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International Film Competition 2023

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The films selected to the International Film Competition of the 21st Krakow Mountain Festival:

  1. 8600 FT, Directors Nicole Bringhurst, Braydon Bringhurst, USA, 2022, 92 min – Polish Premiere
  2. Arctic Ocean, Director Karin Elisabeth Alfredsson, Sweden, 2023, 19 min – Polish Premiere
  3. Blindfolded, Director Caterina Cozzio, Italy, 2022, 15 min
  4. Burning the Flame, Director Peter Mortimer, USA, 2023, 50 min
  5. Captains On El Cap (Cap sur El Cap), Director Brian Mathé, France, 53 min
  6. Chronoception, Director Guillaume Broust, France, 2023, 53 min – Polish Premiere
  7. Creation Theory, Director Ben Sturgulewski, USA, 2022, 22 min – Polish Premiere
  8. Daddy (Tatka), Director Jan Šimánek, Czech Republic, 2023, 20 min – Polish Premiere
  9. Death Trap Haute Route- Reconstruction of a tragedy, Director Frank Senn, Switzerland, 2023, 90 min – Polish Premiere
  10. Deepfreeze Directissime Walker, Director Yannick Boissenot, France, 2023, 27 min – Polish Premiere
  11. DNA, Director Josh Lowell, USA, 2023, 30 min
  12. Edge of Reason, Director Jeremie Chenal, France, 2023, 57 min – Polish Premiere
  13. Edlinger, freedom at his fingertips (Edlinger, la liberté au bout des doigts), Director Nils Martin, France, 2023
  14. Footsteps – Journey of a Song, Director Johannes Aitzetmüller, Austria, 2022, 18 min – Polish Premiere
  15. Headjam, Director Alastair Lee, United Kingdom, 2023, 35 min – Polish Premiere
  16. Just a ride, Directors Matti Juhani Kinnunen, Iisakki Kennilä, Finland, 2023, 65 min, Polish Premiere
  17. Let it Baern, Directors Hannes Tell, Alice Martin, Lando Pföst, Germany, 2023, 11 min – Polish Premiere
  18. Maurice Baquet, l’accordé, Director Gilles Chappaz, France, 2023, 54 min – Polish Premiere
  19. Noise, Director Luana Giardino, Italy, 2022, 7 min – Polish Premiere
  20. Nuptse, Director Hugo Clouzeau, France, 2023, 66 min
  21. Pasang. In the Shadow of Everest, Director Nancy Svendsen, USA, 2022, 71 min
  22. Pioneers. With Peter Moser, Director Alessandro Beltrame, Italy, 2022, 30 min – Polish Premiere
  23. Powerstar, Director Pratik Singla, India, 2023, 30 min – Polish Premiere
  24. Rakchham. Bridge beetwen worlds, Director Ray Demski, Germany, 2022, 22 min – Polish Premiere
  25. Realis – A Portrait about Max Palm, Director Baptiste Sjöström, France, 2023, 33 min – Polish Premiere
  26. Resistance climbing, Directors Zachary Barr, Nick Rosen, USA. 2023, 40 min
  27. Sagarmatha Next, Director Martin Ivar Edström, Sweden, 2023, 12 min – Polish Premiere
  28. Seventh Direction, Directors Ray Demski, Jasmine Ellis, Germany, 2023, 17 min – Polish Premiere
  29. Soundscape, Director Tim O’Neill, USA, 2023, 15 min – Polish Premiere
  30. Still Alive, Director Santiro Martirano, Italy, 2023, 28 min – Polish Premiere
  31. The High Life: The Final Season of Chamonix’s Oldest Refuge, Director Pierre Cadot, France, 2023, 16 min
  32. The Legend of Goldhorn, Director Lea Vucko, Slovenia, 2022, 14 min – Polish Premiere
  33. To the Hills and Back, Director Mike Quigley, Canada, 47 min

Jury members of the 21st Krakow Mountain Festival:

    • Rosanna Stedile
    • Bartek Bargiel
    • Franciszek Berbeka
    • Leszek Dawid

8600 FT

“The Whole Enchilada” is one of mountain biking’s most epic trails—attracting expert-level riders from around the globe to Moab, Utah, to challenge its nearly 8,000-foot descent over raw terrain of rugged rock drops and boulder fields. But no one has […]

Arctic Ocean

Photographer Karin Alfredsson has a flair for untouched nature; be it primeval forests in Jämtland or, as in this work, the fascinating, endless expanse of water and ice at the North Pole. Searching for evidence of climate change, the icebreaker […]

Blindfolded

In late fall, Carlo a young boy with the help of his friends slackliners wants to accomplish his feat. Walking blindfolded for 430 meters suspended over the void (with a safety harness) on a highline, a line anchored to the […]

Burning the Flame

Big wall free climbing masters Babsi and Jacopo seek their greatest challenge yet: a free ascent of Eternal Flame, an elusive 3,000-ft. route up the legendary Nameless Tower in Pakistan’s Karakoram range. Facing extreme conditions and 5.13 trad climbing at […]

Captains On El Cap (Cap sur El Cap)

Seb Berthe dreams of climbing the Dawn Wall, the most difficult route in the world. To get to the foot of El Capitan, in the United States, Seb has no intention of taking a plane! Quickly, a team of 6 […]

Chronoception

On the trail of nomadic peoples and the ancient Silk Roads, Thomas Delfino, accompanied by Léa Klaue and Aurélien Lardy, embark on an expedition to reach one of the most remote places on the continent. The Kokshaal-Too range is located […]

Creation Theory

What is the source of creation? Whether it’s the grandest cosmos or the smallest human idea, true creation arrives in moments of unexpected convergence— extraordinary synchronicities between space and time, science and art, music and mountains and sea. In Creation […]

Daddy (Tatka)

Martin Stráník, the second most successful Czech climber climbs the most difficult route on sandstone by Adam Ondra. After twenty years on the competition scene, he has cupboards full of gold cups and is adding more. How he climbed over […]

Death Trap Haute Route – Reconstruction of a tragedy

Seven people, frozen to death from exhaustion in snow and ice, only 550 meters from the hut that would have saved them. What happened? The ski touring drama on the Haute Route of April 29, 2018, leaves many questions unanswered. […]

Deepfreeze Directissime Walker

In June 1986, Patrick Gabarrou and Hervé Bouvard opened the Walker Directissime in the Grandes Jorasses north face. A masterpiece of difficulty in a 1200 m big wall. Nobody tried it since 37 years. In February 2023, three French mountaineers […]

DNA

29-year-old French sport climber Seb Bouin has been quietly working his way through the elite grades, culminating in his attempt to establish a long pitch out an overhanging cave in the Verdon Gorge of France. His proposed line is so […]

Edge of Reason

Benjamin Védrines and Nicolas Jean are tackling their first 8000 meters summit, Broad Peak in Pakistan. Their goal is to climb without the usual altitude camps, and to achieve the ascent from base camp to summit in one day, in […]

Edlinger, freedom at his fingertips

10 years after his tragic death, what remains of the iconic French climber Patrick Edlinger’s legacy? Through the lives of today’s climbers, who continue the path traced by “the blond man”, and the words of his former companions, the portrait […]

Footsteps – Journey of a Song

In “Footsteps – Journey Of A Song” the Grammy-nominated musician and composer Manu Delago takes a look back on his Tyrolean origins, his international career and his love for the mountains. He is accompanied in the film by the British […]

Headjam

Filmmaker Alastair Lee turns the camera on himself in this deep introspective story of triumph through adversity. Perceived as a successful man with the perfect life, Al experiences unexpectedly dark times. Fearing he will lose everything, we watch a man […]

Just a Ride

Just A Ride documentary film is about self-healing and freedom. Matti Kinnunen, 35, was a professional snowboarder until 2011, when an accident stopped his career and he got depression. In Just A Ride, Matti goes on a journey to find […]

Let it Baern

An underground bouldering scene is hiding in plain sight from climbing on the big World Championship stages in Switzerland’s capital Bern. Let It Baern invites us to discover an underground movement that wants nothing less than reclaiming the streets and […]

Maurice Baquet, l’accordé

A top musician, a member of the Groupe Octobre, a fantasist, a stage performer, a film actor, a mountaineer and a skier, Maurice Baquet was always on the move, and his life revolved around two common threads: the cello and […]

Noise

How do you cross through a natural land that was redefined by a century of excavations? The answer is to be found as you walk in silence. From the summit of Mount Magnodeno you can see three quarries that cut […]

Nuptse

Hélias Millerioux, Frédéric Degoulet and Benjamin Guigonnet are dreaming of opening a new extreme route on the legendary south face of Nuptse. A wall approaching 8000m in the heart of the Himalayas. “Nuptse l’inaccessible absolu” or the obsessive quest of […]

Pasang. In the Shadow of Everest

“In the Shadow of Everest” chronicles Pasang Lhamu Sherpa’s tragic and inspiring journey to become the first Nepali woman to summit Everest in 1993. As an uneducated, indigenous woman and a Buddhist in a Hindu kingdom, Pasang’s dream to scale […]

Pioneers. With Peter Moser

On 10 August 2021, Peter Moser linked six of the main peaks of the Pale di San Martino in a single day. Inspired by the pioneers of mountaineering, Peter carried out the solo traverse along the historic routes of the […]

Powerstar

A group of climbers aspire to bring more inclusivity in the Indian climbing scene by developing new sport routes in Badami – a town known for it’s historic temples of the Chalukya dynasty (6th century). Facing opposition from other climbers […]

Rakchham. Bridge beetwen worlds

Ever since Bernd Zangerl started to climb he has been searching for the perfect line. In Rakchham he was once again hoping to find it. What he discovered was even better than that. For climbers, Rakchham is a playground with […]

Realis – A Portrait about Max Palm

“REALIS” is a captivating short documentary that chronicles the inspiring story of Max Palm, a 21-year-old professional skier competing on the Freeride World Tour. After a previous season cut short by a debilitating injury, Max returns with renewed determination and […]

Resistance Climbing

In the strife-torn hills of Palestine, a diverse crew of Bedouins, dirtbags and urban professionals embraces climbing as a much-needed respite from the burdens of the Israeli occupation. American writer & climber Andrew Bisharat visits the West Bank to explore […]

Sagarmatha Next

A small organization of local Sherpa set out to solve the problem of waste management around Mt. Everest. Facing an explosive expansion of tourism in the last few decades, they work to turn the tide of trash and plastic from […]

Seventh Direction

Alex Luger has spent five years pushing the limits of multi-pitch climbing and challenging himself in unprecedented ways on “Seventh Direction”, his hardest climb so far. As he nears the completion of his psychotherapy studies, Alex reflects on his priorities […]

Soundscape

Soundscape shares the sightless experience of climbing a mountain via echo location, touch and imagination. Soundscape features Erik Weihenmayer, a global adventure athlete and author who is fully blind, as he ascends a massive alpine rock face deep in the […]

Still Alive

Doctors gave him until age twenty-five to live and now 10 years after his expiration date, he is still climbing. Klaas Willems is a rock climber who, due to his Cystic Fibrosis, has dedicated his life to climbing in clean […]

The High Life: The Final Season of Chamonix’s Oldest Refuge

In the final season of the original 119-year-old Le Refuge de la Charpoua, hutkeeper of eight years, Sarah Cartier, and her two children, embrace the high life and all its history in the mountains near Chamonix, France. The timeworn little […]

The Legend of Goldhorn

A hunter heads out to the mountains to mend his broken heart. On his way, he can’t escape the visions of his lover who left him. As he loses his mind, his dark side comes to life. The shadow guides […]

To the Hills and Back

A new film from Sherpas Cinema. At a remote backcountry cabin, a veteran mountain guide and his daughter connect and reflect upon a lifetime in the mountains. A torch is being passed within their family’s legacy of guides as they […]