Let's be honest: for many of us, skiing is not just a sport. It's a passion, a form of expression, a pastime, sometimes an enjoyable waste of time and a great reason to be outside with friends. Skiing is not just about the next big run. It's about the moments when the deep snow swirls around your nose and takes your breath away for a short time. It's about the sparkle when lots of fine snow crystals swirl through the air. It's about the feeling of gliding almost weightlessly through the finest powder or pressing the edge into the snow and racing down the slope as if on rails. It's the nature, the mountains, the solitude, but also the togetherness that makes skiing so special. After all, it's usually more fun together.
Freerider and producer Sandra Lahnsteiner knows this too. For her new Shades of Winter film Between, she has dedicated herself to the little moments. She has created more of a documentary than an action-packed ski film about herself and her Shades of Winter crew, consisting of Julia Mancuso, Nadine Wallner, Evelina Nilsson, Janina Kuzma and Matilda Rapaport. Over 90 minutes, the film follows the six skiers and friends around the globe. But neither the pillow skiing in British Columbia, nor the descent from the 4000 m high Mauna Kea in Hawaii or the skiing at 10 o'clock in the evening in Abisko, Sweden, leave the impression of having landed in an ordinary ski film. The visually stunning 4K production in cooperation with Red Bull Media House offers the finest landscape shots in the most remote places in the world and right here in the Alps. But not only that.
