Janine Israel from The Guardian gave the film four out of five stars and called it a " masterful documentary " . Gayle MacDonald from The Globe and Mail also gave the film four out of five stars . Harry Windsor from The Hollywood Reporter called it : " one of the most visceral essay films ever made , with Peedom and her Sherpa altitude cinematographer Renan Ozturk unfurling a series of glistening images that should be seen only on the biggest of big screens . Gliding shots of snow-capped mountains ringed by clouds and the daredevils who climb them are overlaid with excerpts from Robert Macfarlane 's 2003 memoir-meditation Mountains of the Mind , voiced with suitable cragginess by Willem Dafoe . " Robert Mackenzie was nominated for " Best Achievement in Sound for a Documentary " at the 2017 Australian Screen Sound Guild for his work on " Mountain " . The film was also nominated for " Best Documentary Feature " at the 2017 Hamptons International Film Festival , " Best Documentary Film ( Local or International ) " at the Australian Film Critics Association on 13 March 2018 . On the 2017 Melbourne International Film Festival , it was nominated for " Best Documentary "
Hamptons International Film Festival
Hamptons International Film Festival
Mountain (2017 film)