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Gunda are a few of the films nominated for the 14th annual Cinema Eye Honors. Time (pictured), Bradley’s portrait of a family’s struggle over years of incarceration, was nominated for six Cinema Eye Honors, including outstanding feature, direction, editing, score and debut. Both Nanau’s Collective – about journalists who uncovered health care fraud in the wake of a deadly nightclub fire in Bucharest, Romania, in 2015 — and Kossakovsky’s Gunda — which follows the daily life of a...

We can hike up and slide down. >> first turns of the year. >> first turns in the alps. first turns. and being filmed by three cameras. no pressure. ♪ and leading me down is a man who understands ice and change and loss better than anyone. >> so this is you. this is you. >> his name is ensen beau. and he is a living legends. he was making some of the first runs in the most impossible corners of the alps. and he summed up his early philosophy beautifully in the film "steep."

>> behold the exuberance of a glacier climbing rookie. >> amazing! >> but providing thrills to goofballs in gortex is far from the most important rule of glaciers. these alps are the water tower of europe. around the globe glaciers provide drinking water and irrigation for hundreds of millions. so the thought of losing them is what animates people like ann. so when is the last time you were here. >> this place, 20 years ago. so its been a little while. >> do you notice changes? >> my god, its un...

Volume of ice has been lost. >> she grew up playing at the edge of this glacier, and the alpine love never faded, even after losing both of her parents to an avalanche. >> when my parents died, i lived in london at the time. i just couldnt wait to get back. i just wanted to be here where people understand why you go up mountains and you ski beautiful faces and sometimes you lose your life doing it. its not by not being careful. its just that nature is much stronger than us. >> right next to this...

What do they think about the future? >> yeah, we are a little bit -- how do you say -- sad and not also sad, but we are a little bit revolt. >> revolted. >> yeah, exactly. yeah, maybe in several years, there will be no more glaciers, and well be biking guide, i dont know. >> so are people in chamonix worried about their livelihoods? do they worry that there maybe one day there wont even be enough snow to ski? >> people in chamonix, theyre all mountain lovers and they love nature. so were worried...

Like weve done. the summit is actually in the clouds up there at the moment. they had nothing to actually adhere them to the ice. they had an ice ax. all they could use was basically their body weight to stop the wall. so if you would be falling on the right, i would be jumping on the left. that was the way to stop people on the mountain. >> wow. >> then later, they invented these ice screws. and with the hook, i grab the end of the rock. >> look at that. brilliant. man, youre like the french ma...

That this glacier sunk by more than 50 meters. >> in your lifetime. >> yeah. and it is so fast now. and the speed with which climate is changing, its 20 times faster than any natural temperature change. which happened before human beings became so active. >> without the benefit of time travel, its hard to imagine such massive changes. but when the years are compressed into seconds, heres what that retreat really looks like. photographer james baylaw has dozens of cameras aimed at glazers around ...

Trucks into this valley. and for seb and his friends and thousands of earth scientist s arnold t around the world, that is part of the problem. they say the fuel we use to power our lives, move our goods, heat our homes and yes, fly our helicopters over the alps is warming the planet in dangerous ways. they say the more carbon we burn, the more heat from the sun gets trapped in our atmosphere just like a greenhouse. every year they reveal new bits of evidence like noaas animation of the loss of ...

Planet written in the glaciers above their town and in the ice beneath their boots. ive read countless scientific warnings about climate change, but i want to see it through the eyes of people who really know their ice. and for that, there are few better places than france. on a map, it just looks like a border town up in the attic of europe. but to mountain folk, this is the mother valley. lying in the shadow of a giant, the white lady, ma blanc. and surrounding this everest of needles of grani...

So its kind of an alpinist view, you know, solo climbing, solo climber, they have no mistake possible. here, same thing. >> we cant make a mistake. >> we know if we have, if we get me mistake, its finish. >> but on a bad day, all the control and technique in the world doesnt matter. and a fate worse than death is watching that bad day happen to your kid. >> my -- my first boy was a very good skier, very sportif, very famous, and he get killed. not because he fall down, but because part of ice fa...