Projection: Friday 5th December – 5.00 pm – Sala Colonne
Company: Moving Adventures Medien GmbH
Country: GERMANY
Section: DOCUMENTARY – INDIVIDUAL SPORT
Discipline: Extreme skiing
Year: 2013
Director: Marten Persiel
Editing: Bobby Good
Photo: Jochen Schmoll, Sebastian Tischler
Soundtrack: Oliver Thiede
Actors: Sébastien de Sainte Marie, Pierre Tardivel
Producer: HelliVentures Filmproduktion: Joachim Hellinger, Johannes von Kirschbaum
Time: 16 min
Synopsis
At the age of four, Sébastien de Sainte Marie stood for the first time on ski – however he didn‘t liked the hustle and bustle on the slopes nor queuing at lifts. Today the Swiss steep skier looks for solitude and silence in the mountains and picks slopes hardly anyone else wants to risk. Sébastien says he feels safer in the mountains than in a city, a car or a plane. For the north face of the Gspaltenhorn in the Bernese Alps it’s the same – a slope up to 55-degree, where every wrong move could prove fatal.