Spotlight: The Alps

This year, we celebrate the Alps, a mountain range that has inspired filmmakers for more than a century. Join us as we take a gondola ride through film history, exploring classic mountain films, iconic classics, and new festival favourites.

Spotlight: The Alps

Alpine Fire

Isolated in the Swiss Alps, a young woman who would have liked to become a teacher teaches her deaf brother arithmetic and writing. An incestuous relationship develops between them.

Spotlight: The Alps

Playful in the Alps

Nine short films from the Alps, where the mountains take on both leading roles and supporting parts. Breathtaking views meet experimental stories about humanity’s relationship with nature in this dramatic landscape. And there will also be 1,500 square metres of fabric, cows on the ski slopes, distorted guitars, and a wolf.

Spotlight: The Alps

Sister

A drama set at a Swiss ski resort and centered on a boy who supports his sister by stealing from wealthy guests.

Spotlight: The Alps

The Eight Mountains

An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains follows over four decades the profound, complex relationship between Pietro and Bruno.

Spotlight: The Alps

The Sound of Music

Do re mi fa so la ti do! Enjoy beautiful singing, epic Alpine landscapes, repurposed curtains, and the heart-wrenching story of a family trying to hold on to hope when darkness looms just around the corner.

Spotlight: The Alps

Vermiglio

1944, Vermiglio, a remote mountain village. The arrival of Pietro, a deserter, into the family of the local teacher, and his love for the teacher's eldest daughter, will change the course of everyone's life.

Spotlight: The Alps

Where Eagles Dare

Allied agents stage a daring raid on a castle where the Nazis are holding an American General prisoner... but that's not all that's really going on.