An international Jury evaluates the films admitted for competition of the following three categories:

  
Mountain Experience –
Alpinism, Mountain Sports, Adventure

Central to these films is a sportive encounter with the mountains – the depiction of achievements and
personalities from the various disciplines of mountain sport.

  
Mountain Nature –
Landscape and Environment

Welcome are all submissions concerning themselves with natural mountain environments –
their unique landscapes as well as environmental preservation, protection and sustainable development.

Becoming who I was

  
Mountain Life –
Culture and Science

Films in this category approach encounters between people and mountains from an ethnological and cultural angle;
they emphasize the valence of the mountains as a symbol and reveal people, history, society and environment
in their special relationship to them.