Director: Berger Michael & Bernier Sophie
Country: Isla Reunión, France
Site & date of filming: February-August 2015 / Reunion Island
Duration: 4′ 10″
A girl fascinated by the sky and acrobatics will be many opportunities to make those childhood dreams an exciting reality.
Awards:
Special Jury Prize – Zot Movie Festival
Director: Claudio von Planta
Country: Austria
Site & date of filming: Peru / 2015
Duration: 25′
With a wingspan of three meters, the Andean Condor is considered a master of flying in fierce mountain terrain. Using thermal winds alone, it covers distances stretching hundreds of kilometers a day and soars up to a height of nearly 5,000m above sea level. These capabilities make condors a fascinating subject not only to biologists but to thermal pilots as well. If a condor can climb in this way, can a paraglider as well? This is the question that Hernan Pitocco and Horacio Llorens, both long distance paragliding champions, seek to answer. The pilots have to find a suitable landform at the coast with upwinds to successfully navigate the route along a steep canyon high up into the Andes. An emergency landing halfway in the desert would be disastrous. But when Hernan and Horacio soar higher a late realization leads to near-fatal consequences.
Director: Bryan Smith, David Pearson
Country: Austria
Site & date of filming: The Rocky Mountains, Canada & USA, 2014
Duration: 52′
In August 2014 Will Gadd and Gavin McClurg, two accomplished paragliders, attempt to complete the first ever paragliding traverse of the Rocky Mountain Range, North America‘s most iconic and by far wildest region. At a distance of over 1.200 km from Canada to the U.S., flying across rugged terrain and landing on mountain tops to camp for the night, this journey will smash almost any current long distance flight record.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik0G0b3YZTY[/youtube]
Director: Thomas BRAND
Country: France
Site & date of filming: December 2015 to January 2016, Col du Fornet, Avoriaz, France.
Duration: 3′ 18″
Transition from summer to winter the Col du Fornet (Avoriaz, France)
Between paragliding and speed riding, walk or ski from 20 to more than 60 km / h, are always moments of pure soaring shared with friends.
Director: Aslak Danbolt
Country: Norway
Site & date of filming:Norway, December 2014
Duration: 15′
Joachim is retiring from base-jumping to become a father, but first he endevours one last adventure with his best-friend Øyvind. When a storm approaches their friendship is put to the test; Øyvind want’s to turn back, but Joachim will apparently stop at nothing to pull off his very last jump.
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