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  • IAMF GRAND PRIZE 2024 TO RENAN OZTURK

    The International Alliance for Mountain Film is proud to announce that its 2024 Grand Prize has been awarded to North American director Renan Ozturk.

  • WELCOME NUOVI MONDI FESTIVAL!

    We are very happy to announce the entry of a new member in the International Alliance for Mountain Film. It is the NUOVI MONDI FESTIVAL, which takes place in Italy in Valloriate, a small village in the mountains of the Stura valley, in the province of Cuneo, not far from Turin. Born in 2012, it […]

  • IAMF GRAND PRIZE 2023 TO ELIZA KUBARSKA

    The 2023 Grand Prize has been awarded to Eliza Kubarska, in recognition of her career as a director of documentaries capable of investigating the human events hidden behind great adventures.

  • IAMF GRAND PRIZE 2022. AWARD CEREMONY IN BILBAO

    On December 16, during the Mendi Film Festival in Bilbao, Australian director Michael Dillon was awarded the IAMF 2022 Grand Prize.

  • MARCO GRANDI

    With great sadness we inform that Marco Grandi, director of the Lugano Festival of Festival, left us on July 21st, 2022.

  • THE IAMF AGAINST THE WAR

    The International Alliance for Mountain Film expresses its solidarity with the Ukrainian population and in particular with all those who make up the Mountain Culture community in Ukraine, while strongly condemning Russia’s military aggression against the Ukrainian people and its national sovereignty. The sole reasonable solution of this crisis and human catastrophe can only be […]

  • CURRENT SITUATION IN EUROPE

    We are dismayed at the situation that has arisen in Ukraine and believe that now more than ever is the time to focus on unity and collaboration, the basic principles of our association. As the International Alliance for Mountain Film, we appeal to people’s good feelings and correct international relationships by hoping to find a […]

  • IAMF GRAND PRIZE 2022 TO MICHAEL DILLON

    The 2022 Grand Prize has been awarded to Australian director Michael Dillon, in recognition of his lifetime’s work in the field of mountain film, which includes over a hundred outdoor film projects stretching over fifty years. Highlights of his career include 25 years as Sir Edmund Hillary’s filmmaker, and his filming of three significant Australian […]

  • IAMF GRAND PRIZE 2021 TO DARIUSZ ZALUSKI

    Polish mountaineer and filmmaker DARIUSZ ZALUSKI has been awarded with the International Alliance for Mountain Film Grand Prize 2021. It was announced at the awards ceremony of the Trento Film Festival by Javier Baraiazarra the president of the Alliance: “Zaluski is the director and mountaineer who has best known how to make the lesson of […]

  • New Multi-Festival Submission Form enable films to enter all IAMF festivals in one single entry

      The International Alliance for Mountain Film is an expert centre for professionals and organizations that work in the sector of Mountain Film and provides a globally operating network of festivals, held in 20 different countries – with events on each continent. The network enables a professional and creative exchange with filmmakers, athletes, outdoor brands […]

  • A HISTORY OF PASSION 2000-2020

      The International Alliance for Mountain Film is over twenty years old. Many years have passed since it was founded in the Hall of Emblems at the Mountain Museum in Turin, Italy. Unfortunately the pandemic canceled the Turin assembly scheduled for May 4, 2020, where we planned to celebrate our twenty years of activity, but […]

  • CHANGES DUE TO CORONAVIRUS – NOVEMBER 2020 UPDATE

    Updated information about the changes to the programs of the members.

  • CHANGES DUE TO CORONAVIRUS

    Information about the changes to the programs of the members

  • NO LIMITS, BEYOND BORDERS. Cinema in the Western Alps

    “No limits, beyond  borders. Cinema in the Western Alps” exhibition at the Museo Nazionale della Montagna in Turin (Italy) with the IAMF directors.

  • And the winner is… FREE SOLO!!!

    The best Documentary Feature Oscar that went to FREE SOLO marks a very important moment for mountain cinema!. This award is the result of an incredible climbing of Alex Honnold and an exceptional cinematographic work by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin and their crew. Never before, mountain cinema, has attracted such large audiences. The work […]

  • The International Alliance for Mountain Film is growing on!

    The late 2018 Assembly of our association took place on December 14th in Bilbao, Spain, during the Mendi Film Festival which hosted the many members present. The meeting was held in a splendid hall of the Palacio de la Diputación Foral de Bizkaia, where we also celebrated the return to the Alliance of the Telluride […]

  • PIOTR

    Piotr Atanasow, whom everyone remembers as an affable man powerful in stature, left us on 24 July. He was a fundamental point of reference, for all the mountaineering and film contacts in Bulgaria.

  • 2018 IAMF GRAND PRIZE

    During the Annual Assembly at Domžale – Lubiana in Slovenia, members of the IAMF unanimously decided to award the 2018 Grand Prize to Kurt Diemberger.

  • BOARD OF THE INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MOUNTAIN FILM RENEWED

    The Meeting of the International Alliance for Mountain Film was held during the Gorniškega Filma Festival of Ljubljana (Slovenia), on 1 March 2018 in Domžale, and the Board was completely renewed.

  • IAMF new website

    IAMF is pleased to announce that it has recently restyled its website, seeking a new image and aiming at playing a role also in providing a service to directors, producers and mountain film enthusiasts.