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Taljenje
Nikolaus Geyrhalter · Austria, 2025 · 127 min
Featuring a series of images that bear witness to the disappearance of snow and ice, the documentary's protagonists reveal how climate change is affecting their everyday lives and work. Along the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route in Japan, bulldozers carve spectacular 16-metre-high walls of snow to create corridors specifically designed to attract tourists, while the celebrated ski resort of Val-d'Isere in southern France uses artificial snow to create a winter wonderland. In Switzerland, snowploughs carve furrows into glaciers to preserve snow for the coming winter sports season. All this seems normal - but behind the apparently perfect white façade, the world's ice and snow are melting at an alarming rate. Austrian director Nikolaus Geyrhalter allows the images testifying to this loss of natural balance to speak for themselves.
"I like snow. And I especially like snow in movies. I like it when it snows. And ultimately, as so often in my films, Melt is about people and how they deal with something. Climate change is a major subject, but making a film explicitly about climate change didn't strike me as very appealing. It's much more interesting to show the situation right now. I see the film as a way of capturing life with snow, where it still plays a role in everyday existence, and of creating a kind of monument to frozen water. As always, it's also a film for future archives." (Nikolaus Geyrhalter)
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