2024, Canada, 16min
Director: Trixie Pacis
NATIONAL PREMIERE
The film follows adventure aerialist Sasha Galitzki to remote icescapes to document the most ambitious routine she has ever performed outdoors. Overcoming extreme cold and dizzying heights, she draws attention to the beauty and fragility of our rapidly changing landscapes.
2025, Spain, 22min
Director: Jesus Mari Lazkano
The landscape of Mer de Glace, in the Mont Blanc massif, is transformed over time, a “geological timeline” that we cannot understand from our current perspective and which shows us the progressive degradation of which we are an active part. It is the most studied, painted and referenced glacier in Europe, recreated by artists such as Friedrich, Ruskin, Turner and Violet le Duc. Through thousands of original drawings by Jesús Mari Lazkano, this short film reflects the successive evolution of the increase and disappearance of ice, the filling and emptying, like the breathing of the landscape, which ends in the ultimate landscape catastrophe and the collapse of all life.
2025, United States, 60min
Director: Dawn Kish
NATIONAL PREMIERE
Cranky and yet witty, the bouldering legend John “Verm” Sherman has lost his drive or mojo and is struggling or jonesing to regain it. What better way than to climb the world’s most famous boulder problem, Yosemite’s iconic Midnight Lightning? He climbed it 25 years ago, but since then the climb has gotten harder and Verm’s gotten softer due to Beer lust and a third-degree burning passion for bird photography. Standing in his way is his age (57), weight (200 lbs), dozens of injuries, and myriad health issues. Nevertheless, he’s stubborn and determined, and after a specific 6-month preparation to get in shape, he is ready for leading to a final confrontation with bouldering’s “Problem of Problems”.