The movie event for everyone who loves the mountains

Alpen Film Fest Film Tour 2026 featuring the exceptional film “Nanga Parbat” by David Göttler—a one-time screening right here!

The 2026 “Passion Tour” presents a curated film program featuring five documentaries that tell stories of courage, perseverance, responsibility, friendship, and the quiet power of staying the course. Passion for the mountains. A passion for cinema. A passion for people who don’t choose their path because it’s easy, but because it’s authentic.

Hosted live by real mountaineers, an evening like a gathering at a mountain hut among friends: stories, laughter, and wonder!

Nanga Parbat – Echoes of Sisyphus

David Göttler (48) is at the pinnacle of international high-altitude mountaineering when he sacrifices his career, reputation, and respect for a single project: For over 12 years, he fails to conquer the same mountain, Nanga Parbat. Yet he remains true to his convictions: no porters, no assistance whatsoever—just him alone and the greatest wall on Earth. It took Göttler an entire decade to climb Nanga Parbat, “the mountain of German destiny.” This cinematic epic can be seen exclusively in this program.

All films of the evening

“A Perfectly Normal Life”portrays a mountain-loving couple who have been climbing, traveling, training, and experiencing adventures together for about 60 years. The film is lighthearted, touching, and surprisingly profound: a reflection on how freedom, love, responsibility, and lived values can come together over the course of a lifetime.

“Steep Careers”focuses on work in the mountain forest. The maintenance and restoration of an intact protective forest is not a quick success, but a generational project. The film shows how much patience, knowledge, and responsibility are needed to ensure that mountain regions remain protected in the future.

“50-50”centers on the female alpinists Ines Papert and Sarah Hueniken. The film explores the concept of a rope team as something that goes far beyond simply climbing together. A good rope team is built on trust, understanding, and mutual support. Papert and Hueniken demonstrate that experience, maturity, and friendship develop a strength of their own—and that in mountaineering, age does not mean the end of possibilities, but sometimes rather their deepening.

The film“Fathom”was never actually supposed to exist. Brothers Jakob and Matthias Weger are caught in an avalanche in the Dolomites. A freeride adventure turns into a confrontation with the reality of risk. The film asks whether mountaineering films should only tell heroic stories—or whether they must also show the bitter moments from which true learning arises.

“Nanga Parbat – Echoes of Sisyphus”is the main feature in this program: a work about the dignity of failure, about modern alpine ethics, and about a person who does not seek the difficult path because it is spectacular—but because only this path is true for him.