GOETHE FILMS: PEAK German Docs
Series co-presented by Hot Docs & POV
North America’s biggest documentary film festival Hot Docs brings hundreds of films to Canadian audiences each spring. The Goethe-Institut is adding a coda with selected German documentaries that have won the Goethe Documentary Prize @ DOK Leipzig Festival in recent years. A conversation about cultural specificity in documentary filmmaking and international vs. national festival programming.
PEAK (Germany, 2011, 95 min, CinemaScope Format), directed by Hannes Lang.
Language: with English subtitles
Canadian Premiere
Co-presented by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, the Italian Film Festival and Planet in Focus
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The film looks at the constant transformation of holiday resorts and the lives of farmers along the South Tyrolian Alps. The region struggles with issues ranging from mass tourism to lack of snow resulting from climate change. Artificial snow with high production costs is used to perpetuate the image of a winter paradise. However, depletion and over-exploitation leave their traces in nature.
A factual documentary about dying mountain villages, mass attractions and the enduring fascination of the Alps.