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Directed and Produced by Paul Diffley
Hot Aches Production
12'
This film documents the first free ascent of Bongo Bar in arctic Norway by Scottish climber Dave MacLeod. Bongo Bar is a 400m route on the granite north face of Blamann. This face hosts many long hard aid routes and only in recent years to have climbers begun to see the potential for these routes to be climber free. The film follows MacLeod as he prepares to make the ascent. It combines actuality footage taken of the first ascent, both via long lens and on wall cameras, with 'handy cam' video shot by the climbers themselves.
Produced and Directed by Paul Diffley, Chris Alstrin
Hot Aches Productions
48'
The world of off width crack climbing is a strange sub culture rumoured to be dominated by knuckle dragging, bar brawling dirt bags! The climbing is tough, painful and bloody. Two climbers from England, Pete Whittaker and Tom Randall, set out to explore this world and climb the worlds hardest off widths. They complete a brutal two year training regime, mostly spent hanging upside down in a suburban Sheffield basement, before embarking on a tour of the USA. The tour culminates in the first ascent of the ultimate off width test piece, Century Crack, the worlds hardest off width.
Director - Matteo Vettoral and Damiano Levati
Producer - Matteo Vettoral
Production Company - Story.teller Collective
In the summer of 2010 Iker and Enou Pou decided to visit legends. Travelling the Alps in camper van they met the god fathers that changed climbing forever. Walking on the footsteps of Manolo, Alex Huber and Beat Kammerlander, they repeated some of the most iconic routes in the history of big wall climbing, itineraries that show the way to the new generations.
Director - Davide Carrari
Production Company - L'Eubage s.r.l
19'
It's not the most difficult route in the world; it's simply the most difficult 'sports' route that I have climbed. It has a long story which began when for the first time I asked myself what the places where the sun set every evening might be like. Eternity is hidden up there, in a solitary forgotten landscape in these mountains, small and 'vertically old fashioned' halfway between this place where I was born and the places where I have lived': with these words and the images of the rock face he is climbing, Maurizo Manolo Zanollatalks about his motivation and emotions on rediscovering a route that he identified many years before but which he had long believed impossible for him to face.
Director - Josh Lowell
Producer - Josh Lowell, Peter Mortimer, Nick Rosen, Alex Lowther
Production Company - Reel Rock
28'
Chris Sharma has been the 'king' of sport climbing for 15 years and has created a mecca for hard routes near his home in Catalunya, Spain. Now, the Czech wunderkind, 19 year old Adam Ondra, has come to Sharma's home turf to take the torch. Sharma and Ondra battle to establish the world's first 5.15c, while Sasha DiGiulian and Daila Ojeda shred women's standards with strong ascents of their own.
Directed and Produced by Vlad Cellier and Julien Nadiras
Production Company - Baraka Films
15'
A trip to India is always an unnerving experience, even if on a climbing trip it's hard to ignore the chaos that reigns in this incredible destination. The stunning contrasts, odours, sounds and colours accompanied the Petzl team and local climbers on their adventures between Hampi and Badami. Gérome Pouvreau tells the story of the trip and his main project, the mystical route of Ganesh.
Director - Alan Gordon and Jordan Halland
Producer - Alan Gordon
Blue Obsession Productions
8'
Blue Obsession is the Award winning film about Ice Climber Alan Gordon as he attempts to climb and document the disappearing Juneau ice field in South East Alaska. For years Alan has ventured out on to the constantly changing glaciers to free climb by himself.
After realising that very few people will ever get to experience the beauty of these disappearing wonder he began filming his adventures on the ice. Blue Obsession is the culmination of climbing and capturing these beautiful giants before they are gone forever.
