This year, for the 27th edition, nearly 60 films entries were made from all four corners of the world.
Not all the films will be presented during the Festival !
All the films are reviewed by a selection committee which chooses the best productions as "finalists" to be projected before the public during the Festival.
Two friends go on an adventure that sets a free flight altitude world record and changes the culture of climbing the tallest mountain in the world. This incredible story of faith and determination explores the bonds that are created while trying to survive in the harshest environment, training on the Kumbu Ice Fall, flying over Everest and seeing the world like never before.
Réalisateur : Hamilton PEVEC
7949 Huy 133 CALBONDALE, CO 81623, USA
Producteur : APPI FLY represented by David ARRUFAT, 68 rue de la Croix, 01630 SERGY, France, mail : secretary@appifly.org
A flight on board the world's smallest double seater helicopter piloted by Matthieu de Quillacq a true virtuoso whose aircraft is a marvel of manoeuvring
Réalisateurs : Alois BRUNO et Matthieu DEQUILLACQ
SARL Alixa, Le Pont Long, 04400 BARCELONNETTE, France
Three young women launch on the first entirely feminin base jump expedition from the Angel Falls in Venezuela in 2009, entailing 6 days of hiking through the Venezuelan jungle to the top of the world's highest waterfall.
Réalisateur , producteur et distributeur : Ana Isabel DAO
29 rue Renière, 33000 BORDEAUX, France
A timelapse ode to clouds in their various convective stages and cloud types. Shot only with stills (over 8800 photos) on a Canon 7D in various regions of South Australie.
Réalisateur, producteur, réalisateur : Kym FIELKE
3 Moldavia St. Glandore SA 5037, AUSTRALIE
Inspired by the "60 seconds only" format of filmaking, a fun and experimental edit of one afternoon of coastal flying with friends (NB the opening comment explains how much coastal paragliding we do here !).
Réalisateur, producteur, réalisateur : Kym FIELKE
3 Moldavia St. Glandore SA 5037, AUSTRALIE
Promotional film on the company Sky Paragliders witnessing different stages of manufacture.
Réalisateur: Ad Room et Sky paragliders
mail : martin.nemec@sky-cz.com et philippe@sky-cz.com
Producteur et distributeur : Sky Paragliders
Okurzni 39, 73911 FRYDLANT NAD OSTRAVICI, Rep. Tchèque
tel : +420 558 676 088, mail : martin.nemec@sky-cz.com
Paul Kupsa has always loved extreme mountaineering. Inspired by the idea, that the ability of flying opens up a whole new dimension for adventures he learns BASE jumping. On Monte Brento, he tries to combine climbing, jumping and flying.
Réalisateur et distributeur: Matthias ABERER
Merangasse 42, 8010 GRAZ, Autriche
An infant girl (8 months old) inspired by the paragliding world cup video decides to build a paraplane. She drives to a hilly location to make her first jump with paraplane. Comedy, fiction.
Réalisateur : Alex STACANOV
Str. Valea Dicescu 45, ap 3, Chisinau 2009 - Moldava
A first expedition traversing the Swedish wilderness bordering Norway. Four days of pure snowkite, speedfly and cross country ski, not to mention a speedfly first south of the Artic circle.
Réalisateur : Ivan GUIDOBALDI
Langa 241, 84093 HEDE, SUEDE
Asian Vultures are dying out at an alarming rate. In the last decade, up to 99,9% of the population has disappeared making them more endangered than the Polar Bear. But the vulture's unlovable reputation has kept their plight from public eye. Scott Mason made it his life's mission to bring the vulture's imminent extinction to the world's attention. He realised that he had to do something sensationally different to capture publicity and support for his cause. So he combined his love of falconry with paragliding to invent parahawking: interacting with the birds in their own environment. The film documents Scott's struggle to raise awareness of the vulture's plight by undertaking a 10,000ft climb in the Himalayas to attempt the most spectacular parahawking flight ever.
Réalisateur : Martin CRAY
Producteur : Scott MASON, Camino Quiles, 40 P1, 03320, TORRELLANO, Alicante, Espagne, tel : +34673975359, mail : scott@parahawking.com
The St Hil Air Tour combines paragliding and hiking in a trek-like task wherein pilots followed by an assistant, evolve over a closed circuit of 289 km that stretches from the Isère to the Haute Savoie.
Réalisateurs : Antoine BOISSELIER, Chris TONG VIET, Nicolas ASSAEL
Chemin du Vieux Frêne, 38660 St Hilaire du Touvet
Janurary 1959 saw the arrival in trento of the first mountain-rescue helicopter : an Agusta Bell 47 Jota "Ranger" with wooden blades piloted by Captain Ernesto Zanlucchi.
Réalisateur : Corrado ZANETTI
Prov. Autonoma Trento - italie
Producteur et distributeur : Prov. Autonoma di trento, Ufficio Stampa, Piazza Dante AS – 38122 TN, tel : +39 461492661, mail : uff.stampa@provincia.tn.it
The vast spaces of the Mongolian steppe serves as a backdrop for a passionate and intimate story. A filmaker in flight in search of new perspectives experiences as many mystical ascents as landings in harsh reality.
Parabatix brought spectacular, spectator-friendly tasks to the sport of paramotoring at its first event, held near Montauban, in the soutwest of France, at the end of 2010. Parabatix DVD, produced by acclaimed free flight film director Anthony Green, puts you in the heart of the fast-paced action using onboard angles and high definition footage. Specially commissioned 3D-animations explain the tasks that combined pylon racing with stick-and-ball kicking precision elements.
Réalisateur : Anthony GREEN
1089 route de Gentelly, 06620 GREOLIERES, France
Producteur : Ali AL HAMMADI, mail : ali@parabatix.com
Distributeur : Pascal CAMPBELL-JONES, tel : 06.84.19.20.15, mail : pascyy@gmail.com
This film is about a near 90 year old pilot who has experienced many extreme situations in the air and on the ground, which all had happy endings, because he is followed by not just one or two, but tens of guardian angels.
Réalisateur: Anjanas UNIKAUSKAS
Kalno 36, Gelgandiskis, 71422 Lithuanie
Producteur : Viktoras JASINSKAS, Vytauto pr. 60-48, KAUNAS 44257, Lithuanie
tel : 370 6807 8651, mail : stratusbs@gmail.com
Distibuteur : Violeta PRUPAITE, Vytauto pr. 60-48, KAUNAS 44257, Lithuanie
tel : 370 6807 8640, mail : viledc@gmail.com
Jacques Olivier Travers is a man who loves eagles. In 2006, he engages in the crazy idea of devising a flight teaching method by paraglider for adult eagles born in captivity who have never flown. Even crazier is that neither the man nor the eagle had ever flown when the project took off. Today Travers presents his new idea of launching from the top of Mont Blanc with 12 year old eagle Sherkan!
Réalisateur et producteur : Jacques-Olivier TRAVERS
domaine du Crudou, 74140 SCIEZ
As at ease on skis as he is suspended by lines in mid air, Antoine has all the qualities of a great aerobat and speed rider. His portait will fill in everything you may have missed about this prodigious paraglider pilot who sticks to the summits.
Dominique Janiszewski
74960 Meythet - France
Producteur : Red Bull France
12 rue du mail 75002 France
tel 01.40.13.57.60
vera.dussausaye@fr.redbull.com
Réalisateur, producteur, distributeur : Stéphane BAZANTAY
2 route de Sauville, 08390 LOUVERGNY, France
mail : laviesuspendue@hotmail.fr ou stephane.bazantay@mpsa.com
Antoine Montant glides the length of the supporting cable of the old chairlift of the Station of the Glaciers during a speed riding descent in Chamonix.
Dominique Janiszewski - Ride the planets
74960 Meythet
Producteur : Red Bull France
12 rue du mail - 75002 Paris
tel 01.40.13.57.60 - vera.dussausaye@fr.redbull.com
At the beginning of the 20th century, in Europe and in the USA inventors of all types launched into the incredible race to build the first helicopter. But one after another, faced with failures if not catastrophes, threw in the towel in total discouragement. At the start of the 1920s a few pioneers took up the challenge once again - two Europeans in particular Pescara (Spain) and Etienne Oehmichen (France).
Réalisateur : Stéphane BEGOIN
Producteur : Sombrero & co, 40 rue d'Hauteville, 75010 PARIS
tel : 0180960430, mail : anne@sombreroandco.fr
The film combines paragliding hanggliding and cooking from the world famous Bald Hill at Stanwell Park in Syndney Australia. A tour via paraglider of the spectacular coast line of the Illawarra where the paraglider pilot top lands and prepares a delicious dish comprising seared salmon on a salad of avocado, toasted pine nuts coriander and apple with an orange jus garnished with fried capers. With the back drop of the Sea Cliff Bridge and pilots flying past a hangglider lands and approaches the pilot/chef de cuisine who asks him to taste the dish. Images of onlookers with a brief history of the sport and the area, supported by an original sound track.
Réalisateur et producteur : Anthony SANDEBERG, po box 86 Miranda 1490 SYDNEY, AUSTRALIE
After a career at the heights of competitive flying, Angelo d'Arrigo leaves the sport and devotes himself to emulating the movements of birds of prey and to seeking a deeper meaning within flying in symbiosis with the air.
Réalisateur : Emmanuele ANGIULI c/o IMAGO ORBIS
Producteur et distributeur : IMAGO ORBIS
Via P.Fabbri ¼, 40138 BOLOGNA, Italie
A short documentary about the evolution in acrobatics paragliding. The film overlooks the past times through the eyes of Raul and Félix Rodriguez, presents a brand new style of acro flying, presented by Pal Takats and introduces the youngest upcoming generation and their vision.
Réalisateur, producteur, distributeur : Pal TAKATS
Female acrobatic paraglider world champion Judith Zweifel wants to learn the currently most difficult paraglider manœuvre. During the two years it takes to achieve success she has to come to terms with her fear and sel-doubt. A film about achieving huge goals, freedom and growing older.
July 7, 2010, the solar plane takes off like a dancer in deafening silence ... dream becomes reality: to fly powered by the sun and to prove that progress can be made by using clean energy. This new era came to fruition thanks to years of research by top aeronautic engineers, supported by a whole team who rallied around two men: Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg.
Réalisateur : Henri DE GERLACHE
Producteur : Stéphane MILLIERE, Gedeon Programmes
155 rue de Charonne, 75011 PARIS
tel : 01.55.25.59.24 ou 06.08.97.39.19, mail : lcorre@gedeonprogrammes.com
Distributeur : TERRANOA, Isabelle GRAZIADEY
mail : igraziadey@terranoa.com
In the heart of Antartica, at the foot of the Holtanna range in Queen Maud Land, four adventuresome mountaineers attempt a world's first on the continent by base jump. Alone on a glacier's edge subjected to extreme weather conditions, they hover and wait two full months for the right window to climb the gigantic granite cliffs.
Réalisateur : Sam BEAUGEY et Franck DALMAT
10 villa Collet, 75014 PARIS, France
Producteur : Jonathan POLITUR, tel : 0954683824, mail : alizee@puzzlemedia.fr
A short full of good humour, paragliding, music and other outdoor sports that captures the atmosphere of last winter's paragliding scene around Briancon (France).
Réalisateur, producteur, distributeur : Jean-Baptiste CHANDELIER
Les Pins, Chemin de la Mure, 05200 BARATIER
January 2011, the Himalayan Paramotor Yatra, Nepal 2011 and the FAI invited top pilots to participate in a competition over the majestic Nepalese mountains. Laurent Salinas, who took 5 cameras for this journey, shares his amazing adventure.
LE NIDAntoine Boisselier, Christophe Tong Viet et Nicolas Assael
In St. Hilaire du Touvet, flying is like breathing, right from the cradle. The nest of men and women pilots who host the Coupe Icare Festival every Fall, conscientiously tend to sky-bound feats just as to everyday life in the village. 52 minutes of flight over 4 seasons.
Réalisateurs : Antoine BOISSELIER, Chris TONG VIET, Nicolas ASSAEL
Chemin du Vieux Frêne, 38660 St Hilaire du Touvet
Producteur : SEVEN DOC, 10 rue Henri Bergson, 38100 GRENOBLE, France
tel : 0476476747, mail : contact@sevendoc.com
Distributeur : LES STUDIOS WIN WIN, 12 rue Claude Genin, 38100 GRENOBLE
tel : 0476255903, mail : info@lesstudioswinwin.com
« Freeride » is ecological! Every image of this film was made by means of kite traction. No ski lifts nor helicopter... only the wind, that marvelous durable energy. The only prescription is to climb the mountain in minutes and ski down its stunning faces in virgin snow.
Réalisateur : Arnaud WARECK
6 route de Piegon, 26110 MIRABEL
Producteur et distributeur: Association Ride Up
6 pré du Fort, 05120 ST MARTIN QUEYRIERES
tel 0670465388, mail : johann.civel@gmail.com
Série de 3 épisodes de l'équipe des Soul Flyers. Fred Fugen et Vince Reffet, anciens compétiteurs (Champions du monde) de Freefly sont partis en Norvège réaliser des figures de compétition de parachutisme, indésites en BASE jUMP.
Réalisateur : Philippe Ducros
hameau le soliet 73700 Mont Valezan
Producteur : Dino Raffault
231 avenue Kennedy - 73700 Bourg St Maurice
dino@7links.net
Extreme Latitude Flights: Spitzberg by pulka, snowkite and paraglider. Two young entirely autonomous Frenchmen head for the North Pole to attempt a first paraglider flight from the highest peak, Mount Newton. They suffer 18 days of cold and wind, tracked by the world's greatest predator, the polar bear.
Réalisateur et producteur : Arnaud TISSERANT et Anne-Sophie AYACHE
Hameau St Georges , 38660 SAINTE MARIE DU MONT, France
Samoëns, in the great range neighbouring Chamonix, hosts the Speed Riding Cup or 4th part of the French championship with a double contest: powder skiing and paragliding.
Réalisateur: Yann Havis
Producteur : Le Taillefer Productions
1551, route de Chaparon, 74210 LATHUILE
tel : 0450514936, mail : letaillefer@gmail.com
It's about and around acrobatic paragliding. The German newcomer Marvin Ogger, 22 years, and his synchro partner Lino Oehl, 25 years, show us the art of Acro,
Réalisateur : Antonin MICHAUD – SORET – NORGADEL
48110 ST MARTIN DE LANSUSCLE
DVD : The Coupe Icare 2010, DVD : Legend of the Coupe Icare…More
900 VOLUNTEERS FOR THE COUPE ICARE !
900 volunteers for the Coupe Icare !
Assisting the Coupe Icare.org association, there are 30 partnering associations making for over 900 volunteers who participate in the elaboration of this event! A thousand thanks to all of them for their generous time, energy, enthusiasm and smiles.