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First Run takes it ‘To the Limit’

Published on November 5, 2007

Touching the Void taught us that mother nature is cruel when you defy it – in First Run Features newest pick-up will remind many of us that their is still a great number of reasons not to go mountain climbing.

Following in his sports documentary trilogy (2000's “Heimspiel,” about Berlin's Eisbaeren hockey team, and 2004's Tour de France doc “Hell on Wheels”) To the Limit follows siblings Alexander and Thomas Huber as they attempt to break the speed-climbing record while scaling El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.

Pepe Danquart's docu made a whopping 1.6 million at the German box office.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).