Documentary Films

Turned into a cow herder during the summer in the Swiss Alps, a filmmaker documents her attempts to erect herself as th…

A young man decides to make the journey his adopted brother could not finish. Years ago, his brother died in a plane cr…

This compelling documentary tells the story of the last Sherpa family holding the traditional Sherpa profession in the …

A Paralympic medalist and a quadriplegic man come together to trek thirty-five kilometers over the Tibetan plateau, a c…

While her mother cuts tea in a nearby field, Bahri and Damla, two children from a small village in the Turkish mountain…

Two lifelong friends decide to spend a summer on a farm in the Swiss Alps. What could go wrong? Well ... almost everyth…

American Loneliness tells the story of filmmaker Mathieu Le Lay’s solitary journey into one of the most attractive area…

There is a popular Latvian folksong which begins with the phrase “I was singing out high on a mountain”. The irony of i…

Renato Zucchelli is the last travelling shepherd left in a metropolis, and he has a dream: to lead his flock of sheep t…

Mountains have been a natural haven for men for thousands of years. But life there is hard, difficult, slow, repetitive…

On the south face of Annapurna, at 7,400 metres, Iñaki Ochoa de Olza is dying. His rope companion sounds the alarm. And…

What does a baby's cry have in common with the echo of a mountain yodler, and what connects the head tone of a Tuvin no…