12th Mountain Film Festival St. Pölten | Office of the Lower Austrian Provincial Government, 05.07.2024 – 2024-07-10 07:05:22 – 2024-07-10 07:05:23

Kick-off with “The Alpinist” on July 7

St. Pölten (OTS/NLK) – This summer, the Cinema Paradiso St. Pölten, in cooperation with the Alpine Association and the Friends of Nature, is bringing the 12th St. Pölten Mountain Film Festival from July 7 to September 17, a top-class film program about mountains, adventure, top-class athletics in the great outdoors, globetrotters and nature conservation as well as lectures to its cinemas and the open-air cinema on the town hall square.

To kick things off, the portrait “The Alpinist” of solo ice climber Marc-André Leclerc will be served at the “Cinema Breakfast” on July 7th (further dates: July 23rd and August 19th). “Tailwind – Time for Contentment”, a travel report by Anna Mühlberger and Moses Gsellmann through 14 countries, will be shown for the first time on July 11th (and then on August 4th and 12th). The premiere of the documentary film “Adam Ondra: Pushing the Limit” about the exceptional Czech climber follows on July 17th (follow-up dates: August 18th and 26th). “Via Sedna” comes from Austria about the trip of a seven-person women’s team by sailboat to Greenland to make the first ascent of a big wall, where Sedna, the Inuit goddess of the seas, puts the team to the test.

On August 1st, Buddhi Maya Sherpa, the daughter of a Nepalese mountain guide, will talk about life and growing up in Nepal in her talk “Born at the foot of Everest”. The film “Schools for – Children of the Mountain” about the work of the Lower Austrian Nature Friends in Nepal after the severe earthquake in 2015 will also be shown as a world premiere; afterwards, Nepalese delicacies can be sampled. On August 13th, the “Banff Mountain Film Festival” will bring the diversity of mountain sports between the gorges of Europe, the mountains of Kyrgyzstan and the desert landscapes of the American Southwest to the screen in short films.

At the end of the mountain film festival on September 17th, Helmut Tschellnig, an artist and ultramarathon athlete from Gablitz born in 1955, will come to the cinema and describe in a multimedia lecture what it means to cross deserts on foot – as in “The Track Namibia” over ten days and 520 kilometers at 50 degrees Celsius.

For further information, the detailed programme and tickets, please contact Cinema Paradiso St. Pölten on 02742/21400 or visit www.cinema-paradiso.at/st-poelten.

Inquiries & Contact:

Office of the Lower Austrian Provincial Government
State Office Directorate/Public Relations
Mag. Rainer Hirschkorn
02742/9005-12175
presse@noel.gv.at
www.noe.gv.at/presse