The Last Expedition is the big winner of this edition. The documentary directed by Polish filmmaker and mountaineer Eliza Kubarska has been awarded the Gran Premi Vila de Torelló and Gold Edelweiss of this edition for its profound vision of one of the great legends of history, Wanda Rutkiewicz, who paved the way for elite mountaineering. The jury also highlighted the work of recovering and restoring all the audiovisual documentation that Rutkiewicz recorded.

The second award went to Girl Climber, by American director Jon Glassberg, about climber Emily Harrington and her great challenge to complete the Golden Gate route of El Capitan. The jury awarded the BBVA Award and the Silver Edelweiss for best mountain film “for the technical difficulty of the filming and the spectacular environment in which the story unfolds”.

The Grandvalira and Silver Edelweiss Award for best mountain sports film went to Mathis Dumas (France) for the film Better Up There and the narrative quality of "an intimate and respectful portrait, which manages to put on the table the risks involved in extreme sports and depict the mountain with its ambivalences, as a simultaneous space of mourning and extreme happiness."

Véronique, Anne and Erik Lapied repeat at the Festival with their latest production, 2000 Jours Au Paradís, a portrait of the wildlife of the Gran Paradiso massif. In this 43rd edition, the Lapied family won the Award for Best Mountain Culture Film and Silver Edelweiss – “for having turned the profession into a way of living in symbiosis with the environment, balancing the presence of the cameras with a deeply respectful gaze” – and the FEEC Award and Silver Edelweiss for Best Photography.

The Boreal and Silver Edelweiss Award for best screenplay went to the Iranian film Requiem for a Tribe, by Marjan Khosravi, second consecutive prize at the Festival – “for the recovery and magnificent integration into history of archive images to show the changing life and customs of the nomadic Bakhtiari tribe of northern Iran”–.

As every year, the Festival audience also had their say and decided to award, by popular vote, the Cervesa del Montseny and Silver Edelweiss Award for best film +Xtrem to Far Enough, by the French Julien Carrot. The Future of Climbing (Guillaume Broust, France) has won the Mountain Prize Wilderness to the film that best highlights the defense of natural spaces. The jury also distinguished with a special mention Champions of The Golden Valley, by Ben Sturgulewski (USA).