Okay, it's the middle of November. It's spring on the glaciers and in the foothills of the Alps? Golden fall. The temperatures are slowly dropping, but there's still no precipitation in sight. No rain and certainly no powder. But somehow you start to feel like starting the ski season. And not the kind where you have to fight for the best turns on a white ribbon with almost 20 racing teams. Rather, the kind where you no longer know which untracked descent to take next and where, to save time, you just have to grab the crushed cheese sandwich from your jacket in the lift to give yourself some energy. Well, since these circumstances are unlikely to happen any time soon, we'll have to make do with on-screen daydreams. That's where the new Shades of Winter FilmFest comes in handy.
Adventures and places of longing
Instead of a classic Shades of Winter screening, Sandra Lahnsteiner has organized an entire film festival this winter. From December 10 to 13, the festival will take place in Munich, Vienna, Salzburg and Innsbruck. The festival kicks off on November 27 in Stockholm. "The idea for the FilmFest had been around for a while, but the decisive impulse came spontaneously. Fortunately, I know a lot of projects by various female athletes and they were all enthusiastic about the opportunity to present their work," says Lahnsteiner, who has two short films in her program, COUPLES and CONNECTS. "Of course we want to light the fire with our films," explains the 38-year-old, "but above all we want to share our experiences, exchange ideas with like-minded people and show that anything is possible."
