25/G3: Vom Ende der Gletscher

WINDS – WITH CHIARA SCHMIDT
AT 2024, Jonathan Fäth, 6 min, music video

UNMUTED
AT 2025, Luca Jaenichen, 20 min, original version with subtitles

REQUIEM IN WHITE
AT 2025, Harry Putz, 40 min, German

The Alpine glaciers are dying – irreversibly. At the Stubacher Sonnblickkees, the ice finally broke into several pieces this year: ‘Most of the Tauern glaciers now look like holey socks – they won't last much longer,’ warns Tyrolean glaciologist Andrea Fischer. And yet: while the ‘eternal ice’ is disappearing, slopes are being levelled, lifts expanded, artificial snow produced – a race against time that cannot be won.

Three films ask what the disappearance of the ice means for our water supply, alpine safety and our relationship with the mountains. REQUIEM IN WEISS by Harry Putz is a cinematic memorial to the melting ice, filmed at 13 glaciers in the Alpine region. Lena Öller from Protect Our Winters Austria, an initiative that promotes sustainable outdoor sports, presents a film about a trail running project around the Großglockner, and musician Chiara Schmidt talks about her most extraordinary concert: at the summit of the Niederen Dirndl, 300 metres above the dying Dachstein glacier.