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Slow Travel documentaries – The top three movies about alternative travel

Posted on August 27, 2021August 30, 2023 by Anika
Picture: Anika Neugart.

The rising interest in sustainable, slowing down individual travel can be perceived in the success of movies about Slow Travel. Indeed, the movie makers don’t call themselves Slow Traveler, but they comply with the criteria. They select slow, eco-friendly transportation, differentiate themselves from mass tourism and get consciously in contact with locals.

  • A surprising box-office hit was for example Weit. Die Geschichte von einem Weg um die Welt (2017, DE). The documentary shows the three-and-a-half-years travel of a German couple by food. Patrick Allgaier and Gwendolin Weisser hitchhiked about 50,000 km, traveled the oceans by ship and received their child in Mexico. The movie became the most successful documentary in Germany 2017. Inspires to just start your own trip.
  • Two years later, it was the movie Anderswo. Allein in Afrika (2019, DE), which was voted Best Documentary Movie in Germany. It’s a travel report of Anselm Pahnke who crossed the African continent through 15 countries in 400 days by bike – a distance of 15,000 km. By now, the movie can be found on Netflix (just in German language). Well worth seeing!
  • Another fame promising Slow Travel movie is Blown Away (2019, DE). It documents the two friends Benjamin Schachek and Hannes Koch on their four years trip with boat and busses around the world. During their travel, the educated sound men and musicians recorded about 200 artists in 31 countries. The intercultural music exchange led to 130 songs. 2019, the movie won the audience award of the Ocean Film Festival in Kiel, Germany. Of course, the film music is especially good.
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The TRAVEL SLOWLY blog was founded in September 2020 by Anika Neugart to publicize Slow Travel as a form of travel. It is not a private travel blog, but a source of information.

In view of climate change and over-tourism in many areas of the world, travel behaviour should change. Slow Travel is a sustainable and therefore modern way of travelling.

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