25/P10: Local Heroes

FIRE – WITH CHIARA SCHMIDT
AT 2025, Jonathan Fäth, 4 min, music video

THE HIGHEST NOTE
AT 2025, Fabian Knirsch, 10 min, original version with subtitles

THE SMOOTH SINUS CURVE
AT 2025, David Falch, 17 min, German

TRACES OF LAUGAVEGUR
AT 2025, Björn Hunger, 7 min, German & English

THE PACIFIC CREST TRAIL
AT 2024, Helena Algermissen, 25 min, original version with subtitles

MEHR ALS EIN GIPFEL (MORE THAN A SUMMIT)
AT 2025, Nico Forchthammer, 6 min, German

SUKKER
DE 2024, Niklas Vogt, 19 min, German

LOCAL HEROES have been an integral part of the Mountain Film Festival since 2018. With 38 short films shown so far, young filmmakers from Salzburg have had the opportunity to present their stories to a large audience. We are continuing this concept again this year with a colourful and diverse programme covering mountain sports and seasons: Outdoor inline skating – on huge tyres along steep paths, by bike and tent to the Mediterranean and then on foot across the Pyrenees to the Atlantic, a piano concert on the Niederen Dirndl on the Dachstein and a young athlete from Pongau on the challenging route to the Dientner Klingspitz, a ‘micro-adventure’.

We also meet two artists from Brazil and South Africa who discovered their great love for the mountains in Salzburg. We go on a long hike through North America with Helena Algermissen, a German-born molecular biologist and new Salzburg resident: from Canada to Mexico, 4,270 kilometres, alone, always along the legendary Pacific Crest Trail. And finally, there's a concentrated dose of snowboarding action: Niklas Vogt and a few mates, including Fabio Riedl, have made an old-school snowboarding film. Not much talking, just awesome jumps, loud music and a devil-may-care attitude.