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RODS, ROLLS & REALITY ON THE SOČA
2023, Slovenia, 5min
Director: Rožle Bregar, Rok Rozman
NATIONAL PREMIERE
Swapping paddles for rods, this crew of kayakers desire tight lines and to get a bite. Under the emerald waters of Slovenia's Soča River hides an endemic trout, a perfect aim to live a simple but genuine experience by the river.
NOSE JOB
2024, United Kingdom, 50min
Director: Alastair Lee
NATIONAL PREMIERE
Alex Waterhouse and Billy Ridal are two recently retired competition climbers that attempt to apply their indoor skills to real rock in the most extraordinary fashion. With almost no traditional climbing experience and barely a multi-pitch climb between them, our audacious duo set out to be the first Britons to make a free ascent of the world-famous route, The Nose, on El Capitan in Yosemite. Features contributions from Lynn Hill, Hans Florine and Leo Houlding.
THE GHOSTS ABOVE
2020, USA, 37min
Director: Taylor Rees, Renan Ozturk, Jay Macmillan
NATIONAL PREMIERE
A team of mountaineers summits Mount Everest in an attempt to solve the mystery of the first summit. The team is seeking to find the body of climber Andrew Sandy Irvine, who was the partner of George Mallory on an expedition in 1924.
IAMF GRAND PRIZE 2024
RENAN OZTURK
Sunday December 8 – 19:45 Euskalduna - Auditorio
The International Alliance for Mountain Film-IAMF 2024 Grand Prize has been awarded to Renan Ozturk. The IAMF president Jabier Baraiazarra was in Telluride during the Mountainfilm Festival awards ceremony on May and presented the award to Renan.
Renan Ozturk is a documentary filmmaker, an expedition climber, and a photojournalist. Some of his films have gained global attention:
• Meru, for which he was both cinematographer and subject and which took home the 2015 Audience Choice Award at Sundance Film Festival.
• Sherpa, where he was a cinematographer and co-director.
• The Last Honey Hunter, about the harvest of wild and toxic honey in the Hongu river valley of Nepal, is a requiem for a fading way of life and a tribute to the resilient human spirit.
• The Sanctity of Space, a film conceived as a tribute to the legendary explorer, mountaineer and photographer Bradford Washburn, retracing his steps and revisiting his iconic images.
At Mendi Film, we celebrate the award by programming the brilliant film The Ghosts Above, which Ozturk co-directs with Taylor Rees and Jay Macmillan.
