"K2. TOUCHING THE SKY" WINS IN GRAZ
It is yet another success of the film by Eliza Kubarska in November. This time, "K2. Touching the Sky" was awarded at the International Mountain Film Festival in Graz.
The first festival in Graz was held in 1986. The festival's director is the alpinist Robert Schauer, who together with Wojciech Kurtyka completed the climb of the Shining Wall of Gasherbrum IV.
In this edition of the festival, almost 150 films, divided into four sections, participated in the competition. The documentary film by Eliza Kubarska, "K2. Touching the Sky" was given the Alpin Camera in Gold award in the category "People & Cultures."
At the festival's website we can read that many mountain films concentrate mostly on the heroic struggle against difficult conditions on the route. However, they rarely focus on another dimension of mountain climbing, which is shown in the film "K2. Touching the Sky." The documentary film, in a delicate way, makes the viewers absorbed in the story of people who lost their parents in the mountains, and who now they travel the same roads themselves. Thanks to the well-thought-out editing and insightful camera work, the film shows how each of the protagonists deals with the question: "Why was I abandoned?"