Meeting mountains with humility: a lot of encouragement at the “Alpine Film Festival”

Created: 05.12.2022, 13:00

Pleased with the enthusiasm of the visitors: Sandra Freudenberg (photo), organizer of the Alpine Film Festival, and Tom Dauer have also published two books this year with the illustrated book "Hütten3" and a Reinhard Karl monograph.

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The "Alpine Film Festival" thrilled at the weekend with high-quality, visually stunning short films in the Tölz Capitol cinema.

Bad Tölz – How can and how can you approach a mountain today?

“The Art of Climbing a Mountain”, to use the title of one of the six short films that Sandra Freudenberg chose for her “Alpine Film Festival”, means for her that this is done with humility and respect for nature.

Because it's also about sustainability: You shouldn't make nature available to yourself by pimping it up for tourism and executing it.

You should be touched by their wild originality and always leave them the way you found them.

Driven by values ​​such as friendship and responsibility, the new mountain film does not want to possess the object of its longing, only visit it.

Freudenberg made this clear to her audience at the well-attended double guest appearance of her film festival this weekend in the Tölz Capitol cinema: The mountain is the main actor and is there forever - and the little person can count himself lucky if he grants him a friendly audience.

Exceptional mountaineering achievements

Sandra Freudenberg and Tom Dauer have selected six high-quality, visually stunning short films full of narrative poetry and exciting dramaturgy.

Only in two cases was it also about extraordinary mountaineering achievements: in the film “North 6” about two well-known Swiss top mountaineers, who alone with their own muscle power climbed six large alpine walls in one go by racing bike, on foot, with rope and paraglider to a so connect said enchainment;

and in Tom Dauer's film portrait of the well-known extreme climber and free spirit, photographer and author Reinhard Karl ("Time to breathe"), who died in an accident in the Himalayas 40 years ago.

Homage to Reinhard Karl

Tom Dauer has succeeded in creating a sensitive double portrait in which an artist is inspired by Reinhard Karl's estate to create impressive woodcuts and linocuts.

The director and author based in Valley near Holzkirchen has now also written a book about Reinhard Karl.

The film and book are a homage to the top mountaineer and sensitive writer, who inimitable understood how to capture the attitude towards life of his (mountaineer) generation in words and pictures.

Using his own research, Karl's original texts and the memories of his companions, Tom Dauer sets out on a search for clues in an extraordinary, short life full of emotional depth and unresolved contradictions.

120 performances in the entire German-speaking area

Sandra Freudenberg from Tölzer presented her “Alpine Film Festival” this year at 120 screenings throughout the German-speaking region.

"We often had full halls, but once only 15 people came, but you could always feel the enthusiasm of the visitors," she says.

Because it was always not just about the aesthetics of the mountains, but also about how the mountains shape people and also make them happy.

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