Report from Hory(i)zons 2018 - extreme sports film festival in my hometown

I'm once again back home for couple of days. And this time, I got pretty lucky as the travelers/extreme sports film festival was on the whole weekend.

Horyzons vs. horizons

The name of the festival is Horyzons. Of course you might ask if there isn't a typo in there.

"It should be horizons, right?"

Nope not really. It's a wordplay. As many many of the screen movies take place in mountains and mountains are in my own native language called HORY, the name HORYZONS makes perfect sense and is briliant!

Program

Festival was taking during full 3 days. You can check all the screened films and their description on the webpage HERE.

Atmosphere

Here just couple of my low quality smartphone pictures :)

This is our oldest communist style cinema in the town. And yet, they screen the best movies here - not that Hollywood crap!

These short breaks in between movie blocks were well appreciated. Meeting many friends of mine I haven't seen for some time was suupercool.

Ofcourse, after the festival end for the day, we went into the bar. Here my friend goofing around with my 10 years younger sis @zzuzza who happened to be in the same pub :) Was cool one, she got me drunk as hell haha :D

Drunk way back home

And on my way home at 4am, I've managed to snap this beautiful picture! I don't even remember taking it hahahah

MY TOP 3 PICKS

#3 The Frozen Road

• Year: 2017
• Director: Ben Page
• Place: Canada
• My comment: It was a great display that travelling and adventure are not always so nice as displayed on the screens with epic music causing shivers and goosebumps. It's self edited film full of ups and down and reflects what it takes to endure the crazy polar trail in Canada on bike. I'm adding #cyclefeed tag as I hope the guys would love to watch the movie. Another 2 screened cycling movies were RJ Ripper and Escape.

I've found the full movie on Vimeo.

#2 Live along the way

• Year: 2018
• Director: Anthony Bonello
• Place: Switzerland
• My comment:Beautiful film of never giving up. This woman was a world best climber untill her belayer made a critical mistake and she broke her vertebra. She can't climb anymore. She began basejumping and after several years, got yet another big accident. She can't basejump anymore. Now she undertook a project of conquering all 82 alpine 4-thousanders within one year.
Full movie on YT :) Enjoy!

#1 Reel Rock 12 Break on Through

• Year: 2017
• Director: Anthony Bonello
• Place: France
• My comment:This one was pretty motivational one. The young girl from America who conquered a legendary walls of La Rambla and Biography - 5.15 difficulty as a first woman ever!! She talks about her unbelievable will and motivation, stuggle to be greater than everyone else. It was a pure competitors movie so to say. No romantics from climbing, just results. Not everyone's taste but I totally loved it. The part where she was memorizing moves of the wall back home with closed eyes was unbelievable!
• Full movie link: HERE

Biggest dissapointment - Rheinold Messner's new film

This one was tough to watch. They made it 2 times longer that it should have been IMO. Too long details of suffering people and kinda too artistic, hollywoody approach to it totally killed the story for me.

Aaaand that's it for Horyzonty 2018 and my report! I totally enjoyed it as always and can't wait for the next year. This might already by my 5th or 6th #ulog, hope you enjoyed it!

Thanks for reading!



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