16th Tegernsee International Mountain Film Festival 2018, 17 – 21 October Short Programme (English) Tuesday, 16 October 2018 Ludwig-Thoma-Saal, 8:00 pm – Best of Tegernsee – Last Year’s Award-Winning Films Title Duration Nation Screenwriter/Producer Language 7’00 DE Last Exit (After a few years of BASE jumping, six out of a group of ten friends have Puria Ravahi / met their death. The fascination and German beechstudios tree group addiction of this extreme sport as well as the pain of those left behind constitute a crucial conversation.) A mords Sauhaufen in an z’kloan Zelt (A Bunch of Nutters in a Tiny Tent: Simon Platzer, Johannes Freeriders Alex, Max and Rafael are Hoffmann, Jakob merely testing their tent when a 12’00 AT German Schweighofer / breathtaking roller coaster ride through the mountains begins. Their Whiteroom Production tiny magical tent brings our heroes to unimaginable places.) Battle Cat 8c+ Lena Herrmann (Lena Herrmann, Germany’s strongest female rock climber, is the 13’00 DE Alexej Funke / Cinecircle German first woman to send “Battle Cat”, an 8c+ route in the Franconian Jura.). Symphony on Skis (In 1986 mountain guide Gottlieb Braun-Elwert traversed New Zealand’s southern Alps on skis in Carla Braun-Elwert / just 18 hours, mastering a massive 60’00 NZ English glacier, four mountain passes and Atara Film 4,000 m of altitude. He never thought of this experience as a struggle, but likes to call it a symphony.) 1 Wednesday, 17 October 2018 Barocksaal, 8:00 pm – Opening Night – Title Duration Nation Screenwriter/Producer Language Viacruxis (Marcel and Andrezj are very different characters. Marcel likes to hog the limelight, while Andrezj always caters the support act. Yet, together, they form a strong Spanish / team and were the first to storm the Ignasi López / Ignasi highest peaks of their animated 11’00 ES English López Fàbregas world. Presently, the two likeable subtitles cartoon heroes face their greatest challenge, and their path is riddled with obstacles. Even worse, Andrezj is fed up with his existence in Marcel’s shadow.) Reiss di zsamm! Geduldsprobe am Cerro Kishtwar (Pull Yourself Together! Ordeal at Cerro Kishtwar) (Only they see those lines on sheer rock, only in their heads do certain traces exist. Swiss mountaineers Stephan Siegrist and Thomas Huber have often demonstrated their intuitive talents. In 2017 they achieve another masterpiece, Max Reichl / 7’00 DE German together with Julian Zanker, at the beechstudios tree group pristine granite peak of Cerro Kishtwar, succeeding with a first ascent of its icy big wall. They call the route “Har-Har-Mahadev”, which translates roughly through Bavarian as “Pull yourself together!”. Thomas Huber screens his film about this daring venture for the first time at the Tegernsee Mountain Film Festival.) Mount Everest – Der letzte Schritt (Mount Everest – The Final Step) (In 1978 Peter Habeler and Reinhold Messner master the first ascent of Mount Everest without bottled oxygen. Embedded into the award-winning documentary film by legendary director Leo Dickinson, Reinhold Messner presents newly Reinhold Messner / 47‘00 AT German filmed, dramatised sequences that Servus TV could not have been shot in 1978. Messner’s son Simon and Philipp Brugger act as the first ascenders on their dramatic way to the summit. In 2017 Reinhold Messner’s film “Still Alive – Drama am Mount Kenia” won the Great Prize of the City of Tegernsee.) 2 Ludwig-Thoma-Saal, 8:00 pm - Future, Whereto? - Title Duration Nation Screenwriter/Producer Language Wenn die Zugspitz’ schwitzt – Klimawandel in den Alpen (When Mt. Zugspitze Breaks a Sweat – Climate Change in the Alps) (No other place in Germany demonstrates climate change as drastically as the Alps: here, the rise in temperature is almost double the national average, with dramatic Angelika Vogel, Jürgen consequences for the Alpine 43’00 DE Eichinger / Jürgen German environment. Award-winning film Eichinger Film maker Jürgen Eichinger conveys this much with the help of spectacular footage shot at and on Mt. Zugspitze. The impact affects animals, plants, people – everybody has to adjust. However, the greatest danger lurks inside the mountain.) Alpine Rebellen – Zwischen Wahnsinn und Wintermärchen (Alpine Rebels – Between Madness and a Winter’s Mare) (Around 100 million people flock to the Alps every year, many of them not on a quest for quiet, but for a bit of hullabaloo. How much Alpine Brigitte Kronberger / 29’00 DE German trash tourism can the environment Bayerischer Rundfunk endure? With its picturesque mountain landscapes Germany’s first mountaineering village, Ramsau in the Berchtesgaden region, appeals to a gentler kind of tourism. But can the small community survive on tranquility?) Zozooloi – 199 kleine Helden (Zozooloi – 199 Tiny Heroes) (Zozooloi and her family live in a yurt in the Altai mountains of Mongolia. She labours like a man, carrying water, hacking dung and milking the cows. She tells her story of a Sigrid Klausmann / Mongolian / foreign, fascinating and endangered 13‘00 DE Gerhard Schmidt, Gemini German world. She goes to school in Film & Library subtitles Tsengel, which is 75 miles away, where she also manages her grandmother’s household. Finally, she gets Internet access. But which of these two worlds holds her future?) 3 Medius, 8:00 pm – Between Heaven’s Cope and Caves – Title Duration Nation Screenwriter/Producer Language Imagination: Tom Wallisch (We’ve all been that kid in the back of their parents’ car, wishing dearly to be somewhere completely different. Dreams grow wings and during a drive through the snow- Dave Mossop / Sherpas 5’00 CAN English laden cities of British Columbia they Cinema actually come to life: Isn’t that Tom Wallisch beside the car, one of the world’s best free skiers, jumping across rooftops and sliding down railings?) En vol vers les 8000 (Flying up to 8,000) (Equipped with a tent and a paraglider, Antoine Girard intends to traverse Northern Pakistan. Left entirely to his own devices, he flies for 19 days across more than 746 French / miles of breathtaking Himalayan 41’00 F Antoine Girard German mountain chains. He reaches an subtitles altitude of 8,157 m (26,762 ft) and even gets to see Broad Peak from above. In 2017 this daredevil mission earned Antoine Girard the National Geographic title “Adventurer of the Year”.) The Ario Dream (An expedition team takes off to further explore the Ario Cave in Northern Spain. Their goal is to discover the missing connection between two passages, English / thus potentially revealing Europe’s GB / Paul Diffley / Hot Aches 42’00 German deepest cave system. Nothing must ES Production go wrong, an emergency rescue is subtitles impossible. Suspense peaks when one diver after the other disappears into the impenetrable darkness of deep underground waters.) Bernd Arnold – Wege nach innen (Bernd Arnold – Inward Paths) (His climbing record of the 70ies and 80ies lists several of the world’s toughest climbing routes. In this compassionate short portrait, 70- year-old climbing pioneer Bernd Ulf Wogenstein / Arnold makes connections between 12’00 DE German Wogenstein Pictures his athletic climbing success and inner life: from his childhood roots to faraway places, to homeland and friendship, all the way to the present day. The image-rich retrospective was shot among Saxony’s sandstone features.). 4 Schalthaus, 8:00 pm – Sources of Life – Title Duration Nation Screenwriter/Producer Language “I tat nit tauschn” – Ein Leben auf entlegenen Höfen („I Wouldn’t Swap“ – Life on Remote Mountain Farms) (They still exist in South Tyrol: remote mountain farms without drivable access, far from the villages. Ewald Thaler consciously opted for this kind of life, same as Karin Duregger / German, South Siegfried and Florian Lanthaler. 45’00 IT recmedia Tyrol dialect From spring to late autumn they live in isolation at 1,700 m (5,577 ft) of altitude, while their wife and mother manages the farmstead in the valley below. Up there she finds it too lonely. However, those who do go up find quiet and strength and the determination to keep going, with life and with the farm.) Brahmaputra – Der große Fluss vom Himalay (Tibet) (Brahmaputra – The Great Himalayan River) (Between this river’s source southeast of Mt. Kailash and the Grand Canyon in Eastern Tibet, one of our planet’s most dynamic landscapes unfolds. Here, alongside Klaus Feichtenberger / the Himalaya’s main ridge, the 46’00 AT pre tv/dreid.at/EOS German formerly separate continents of India Films/ORF and Asia slam together at full force. This immense collision shaped the Himalaya and the Brahmaputra river system. Numerous hidden high valleys present extremely challenging biospheres, even for well adapted plants and wildlife.) Quirinal, 8:00 pm – History and Stories – Title Duration Nation Screenwriter/Producer Language Die Alpen – Eine große Geschichte (The Alps – A Tremendous History) (The Alps are Europe’s most Florian Breier, Christian imposing mountain barrier. Stiefenhofer / Breathtaking images and exciting 60’00 DE German Bilderfest/factual dramatised scenes show early man’s conquest of this mountain entertainment wilderness. Across the millennia, the Alps become home to 14 million people. The film’s time travels begin 5 with the murder of Ötzi, take us through Bronze Age mines all the way to the Alpine myth of Wilhelm Tell. Then, the pioneers of alpinism are followed by the murderous high mountain battles of World War I.) Break on Through (The US climbing grade of 5.15 (UIAA scale 11) is reserved for the world’s best sports climbers. Never has a woman sent one of these routes. Margo Hayes, a so far largely unknown climber from Peter Mortimer, Matty English / Colorado, wants to change that. To 26’00 US Hong, Nick Rosen / German get closer to the world’s toughest routes, she goes to Europe and Zachary Barr, Reel Rock subtitles gives everything to reach her goal.