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International Film Competition 2025

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Films selected to the International Film Competition of the 23rd Krakow Mountain Festival 2025:

      1. B.I.G. a World First, director Johannes Mair, Austria, 2025, 54 min – PREMIERE
      2. Best day ever, directors Ben Knight, Berne Broudy, USA, 2025, 48 min – PREMIERE
      3. Better Up There, director Mathis Dumas, France, 2025, 45 min
      4. Billy, director Pablo Damián Schiel, Argentyna, 2024, 33 min – PREMIERE
      5. Bushido. The Choice, director Marcin Tomaszewski, 2025, Poland, 29 min – PREMIERE
      6. Champions of the Golden Valley, director Ben Sturgulewski, USA, 2024, 81 min
      7. Creators, director Wojtek Kozakiewicz, Poland, 2025, 24 min
      8. Cruel way, director Deyan Bararev, Bulgaria, 2025, 109 min – PREMIERE
      9. Eternal Solo, director Andrea Cossu, Italy, 2025, 31 min – PREMIERE
      10. Extra Miles / Um Passo a Mais, director Rafael Duarte, Brazil, 2025, 52 min – PREMIERE
      11. Far Enough, director Julien Carot, France, 2025, 27 min – PREMIERE
      12. Fast line, director Jochen Schmoll, Spain, 2025, 30 min – PREMIERE
      13. Future of Climbing, director Guillaume Broust, France, 2025, 52 min
      14. Genaration Shegeng, director Alex Buisse, Canada, 2025, 22 min – PREMIERE
      15. Ghost Resorts – Super Saint-Bernard, director Julien Roserens, Jules Guarneri, France, 2025, 16 min – PREMIERE
      16. Hocheti Pocheti, director Andrea Pecora, Italy, 2024, 16 min – PREMIERE
      17. Home, directors Aleksandra Powalacz i Julia Powalacz, Poland, 2025, 15 min
      18. In Cold Blood, director Alex Heitler, France, 2025, 36 min – PREMIERE
      19. Inner fight – A short documentary of Núria Castán, director Núria Castán, Spain, 2025, 20 min – PREMIERE
      20. Lama’s Son, director Kesang Tseten, Nepal, 2025, 72 min – PREMIERE
      21. Le moulin des artistes – A home for free spirits, director Pierre Cadot, France, 2025, 25 min – PREMIERE
      22. Move Mountains, director Abhishek Tiwari, India, 2025, 23 min – PREMIERE
      23. My Grandfather was A Mountain Climber, director Tabitha Ellis, United Kingdom, 4 min – PREMIERE
      24. Northern Lines, director Adam Łosiński, Poland, 2025, 23 min
      25. Odyssea Borealis, director Alessandro Beltrame, Italy, 2024, 44 min – PREMIERE
      26. Robson, director Phil Forsey, Canada, 2025, 45 min – PREMIERE
      27. Riders on the Storm, director Josh Lowell, USA, 2025, 28 min
      28. Run Again, director Alexis Berg, France, 2025 65 min
      29. Sama, director Bachar Khattar, Germany, 2024, 27 min – PREMIERE
      30. Smoke that Thunders, director Caleb Roberts, Canada, 2024, 4 min
      31. Vautour, director Brian Mathé, France, 2025, 32 min – PREMIERE
      32. Weazy, director Jules Bellot, France, 2025, 16 min – PREMIERE

Jury of the International Film Competition of the 23rd Krakow Mountain Festival 2025:

  • Kinga Baranowska,
  • Marco Ribetti,
  • Dariusz Załuski.

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B.I.G. a World First

On September 20, 2023, Jakob Schubert makes climbing history by doing the first ascent of “B.I.G.”, formerly known as “Project Big” in Flatanger. Originally bolted by Adam Ondra a decade ago, the route was regarded as a contender for becoming […]

Best day ever

Best Day Ever follows the stories of adaptive mountain bikers Greg Durso and Allie Bianchi as they navigate the relentless challenges of their disabilities and embrace the tremendous support, friendship and joy they find in their rural Vermont riding community. […]

Better Up There

Better Up There, a 45-minute film portrait, is the moving story of a unique life, that of Léo Slemett. Through his rise in the world of freeride skiing, Léo wages an incessant battle against adversity to pursue his dreams and […]

Billy

“Billy” is a documentary that deals with the fears that a 70-year-old grandfather goes through when ski touring. Death, desire and time constitute the internal conflict of this adventure, which may be the last.

Bushido. The Choice

„BUSHIDO. The choice.” The film is based on symbols of Japanese and Buddhist culture. The protagonist is a nameless middle-aged professional mountaineer who, despite achieving success in climbing, is still looking for a development path. He embarks on another expedition […]

Champions of the Golden Valley

After narrowly missing his chance to become Afghanistan’s first Olympic skier, Alishah Farhang returns to the remote snow-capped mountains of his homeland to inspire a vibrant new ski culture. Bringing together young athletes from rival villages with makeshift wooden skis, […]

Creators

Routesetting is an invisible art that shapes the climbers’ experience. This film follows a team of master routesetters as they craft the challenges for Poland’s biggest climbing competition—routes that test not only strength and technique, but also ignite imagination and […]

Cruel Way

In 1984, Bulgarian mountaineers summited Everest via the West Ridge – the deadliest route, also known as “The Cruel Way”. Mountaineers from around the world have tried to replicate this Bulgarian achievement. None have succeeded. Forty years later, the last […]

Eternal Solo

Stefano Ragazzo wasn’t born among the mountains; his passion came later, like a bolt from the blue, with climbing drawing him far from the plains. Inspired by the Dolomite tradition, he became captivated by solo climbing—a way to push beyond […]

Extra Mile

Mountaineer Bernardo Fonseca embarks on a challenging journey to the summit of Mount Everest, with the goal of delivering a message to the world about the importance of conserving mountain environments, showcasing both their beauty and vulnerability. The film portrays […]

Far Enough

Back in 1996, Goran Kropp biked all the way from Sweden to Everest—then climbed it solo and unsupported. Now, 28 years later, 22-year-old Jean Rouaux is picking up the torch in his own way. His goal? Ama Dablam, deep in […]

Fast Line

The New Speed Record on Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau This documentary follows Swiss climber Nicolas Hojac and Austrian Philipp Brugger as they attempt to set a new speed record for ascending the north faces of Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau in […]

Future of Climbing

With the rise in the number of private climbing gyms and climbing’s inclusion in the Olympics, this rapidly changing sport now faces a truly unique dilemma: the increase in popularity of indoor climbing gyms alongside the current threat of closures […]

Generation Shegeng

Once a niche pursuit in China, sport climbing has exploded into the mainstream in the past few years. Nowhere is his transformation more evident than in Yangshuo, the heart of Chinese sport climbing. For years, its dramatic limestone towers have […]

Ghost Resorts – Super Saint-Bernard

Five blackcrows’ skiers, including co-founder Camille Jaccoux, set off to explore the memories of small resort Super Saint-Bernard on the border between Switzerland and Italy. A place steeped in history, this documentary traces the resort from its beginnings in 1963 […]

Hocheti Pocheti

Amid Val di Mello’s untamed beauty, Luca and Niccolò tackle an uncharted granite wall, forging a profound bond with the rock and a life guided by nature’s timeless pace.

Home

Film HOME invokes a meditative journey aimed at a reflection on humanity’s relation with nature, led by World-renowned polar explorers and ski-alpinists. The motif of sound and the images of nature coexist with the thoughts of the explorers, examining the […]

In Cold Blood

“IN COLD BLOOD” is an intimate mountain film told through the inner voice of a rider torn between fear and obsession. As he moves between high-stakes competitions and raw backcountry adventures, we witness a search for balance between adrenaline and […]

Inner fight – A short documentary of Núria Castán

In 4th April 2023, the FWT snowboarder Núria Castán survived an avalanche that turned her world upside down. Once a rider chasing the biggest lines with unshakable passion, Núria suddenly found herself battling an invisible enemy—her own mind. “Inner Fight” […]

Lama’s Son

In Nepal’s Himalaya, a Bonpo Lama awaits his son to return from NY to take over his ancient role. It is a sign of a society crumbling, exacerbated by climate change. There are still outposts in the Himalaya where tradition […]

Le moulin des artistes – A home for free spirits

Some people make a living from their craft. Others can’t live without it. In a 16th century mill in the Chamonix valley, Peter and Anati run Le Moulin des Artistes: a ski workshop, art space, and gathering place for like-minded […]

Move Mountains

Amid the immense silence of the Indian Himalayas, Move Mountains becomes a cinematic meditation on transformation, told through intimate conversations and poetic climbing sequences. The film deliberately steps away from the well-trodden path of linear storytelling – listening takes center [&hellip

My Grandfather Was A Mountain Climber

A  conversation between myself and my Grandfather John Emery who died in 1963. When my mother was 1.

Northern Lines

Far beyond the Arctic Circle, where towering mountains rise straight from the sea, a small group of friends from around the world sets out on an extraordinary journey to tackle untouched ski descents in the harsh Arctic climate. From Poland, […]

Odyssea Borealis

Four modern explorers challenge the icy waters of eastern Greenland in an epic 300-kilometer odyssey. Their goal: to scale the untouched northwest face of Drøneren, standing 1,200 meters high. Driven by the primal instinct of exploration, these modern Odysseuses are […]

Riders of the Storm

Big wall climber Siebe Vanhee enlists Drew Smith and fellow Belgian countrymen Nico Favresse and Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll to attempt the first free ascent of the elusive Riders on the Storm route on the East Face of Patagonia’s Torre Central.

Robson

Two of the world’s most accomplished ski mountaineers, Christina Lustenberger and Guillaume Pierrel, have carved their names into history with bold first descents across the globe. Now, turning their sights on Mount Robson, the highest and most formidable peak in […]

Run Again

Dave Pen is the singer of Archive, an English rock band that has been selling out Europe’s biggest venues for 30 years. But this father from Southampton is condemned to silence. With covid, Archive hasn’t played live in 4 years. […]

Sama

SAMA (سما, Arabic VERB: soared, rose, climbed). Hiba, a Syrian refugee, and Sabine, a Lebanese citizen, live in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. In a country where tensions between Syrians and Lebanese are escalating, the two girls share their past experiences […]

Smoke that Thunders

Aiming to paddle the fabled Minus rapids at the base of Victoria Falls on the Zambezi river, Ben Marr’s biggest challenge is to get to them by trekking upstream. A total assault on the senses awaits as the force of […]

Vautour

After ‘Fond of Font’ and their 100 x 7A bouldering feat, Seb Berthe and Hugo Parmentier have a new dream: taking up a new endurance climbing challenge with 5 major long routes in the Verdon Gorge, in less than 24h. […]

Weazy

An intricate balance between technical precision and free-flowing caution-to-the-wind, Craig Murray’s skiing is at its core an ode to his early life experiences with a family that supported and pushed each other constantly. Gifted the nickname “Weazy” when he was […]