As we look back on our last days at Mountainfilm 2019, our reviewers reflect on some of the festival’s most impactful films and moments: Finding Home in Boomtown (2019, dir. Matthew Maxwell) review by Harrison McCormick 17 Blocks (2019, dir. Davy Rothbart)...
The Mountainfilm festival’s theme for the 41st year is equity, meaning equal opportunities for everyone. One particular film directed by Erik Osterholm, Ascending Afghanistan, focuses on thirteen Afghani women mountaineers pushing through the setbacks women in their...
One Mountainfilm that was quite heart-wrenching for me personally was Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements, directed by Irene Taylor Brodsky. This film focused on the director’s family, her son, and father as they lived and tried to cope with deafness. The...
Tigerland, a 2019 feature-length documentary directed by Ross Kauffman, is an excellent representation of one of the many topics that the festival values. Mountainfilm started with films mainly centered around sports but has grown over the years to show films that...
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