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The Cable Car

Switzerland, 2008, 7 minutes
Directed by Claudius Gentinetta, Frank Braun
Produced by Claudius Gentinetta

While travelling by cable car to a place somewhere in the mountains, an old man treats himself to some snuff. Et voilà! With every sneeze, the cable car cabin falls apart more and more. The man, however, is far from accepting his fate just like that.

Finalist in: Best Film on Mountain Culture
Best Short Mountain Film

Greina

Switzerland, 2006, 28 minutes
Directed and produced by Villi Hermann

Mountaineer Giovanni Boggini lives in Switzerland’s Greina Alps. He makes cheese and butter using the traditional wood-fire caldera method. But since 2001, production has had to be modernized to comply with EU standards. This film follows the various stages of cheesemaking while also focusing on the cheesemaker’s dedication and love despite the difficulties created by modernization.

Finalist in: Best Film on Mountain Culture

Zum Dritten Pol (To the Third Pole)

Germany, 2007, 86 minutes
Directed by Andreas Nickel, Jurgen Czwienk
Produced by Andreas Nickel

Norman Dyhrenfurth, 90, tells the extraordinary story of his parents, mountaineers and filmmakers Hettie and Günter Dyhrenfurth, and their 1930s expeditions to the Himalayas (Kanchenjunga, Hidden Peak). These family expeditions equalled those of their state-sponsored Nazi rivals and set world climbing records. In doing so, the Dyhrenfurths took the first moving pictures at high altitude. Norman himself put the first Americans on top of Everest in 1963 and led the first traverse of an 8000-metre peak. Through engaging interviews, Chris Bonington and Reinhold Messner put the Dyhrenfurth expeditions into a modern context and convey compassion for the heroic achievements and tragic failures of this family.

Finalist in: Best Feature-length Mountain Film