Tracks is not a regular snowboarding movie, it's not really even a documentary. It's a story about winter and global warming in the arctic circle, told from our perspective as local snowboarders. 
Torneträsk, the largest mountain lake in Scandinavia, is today frozen for a month shorter on average compared to when we were children, a clear sign that winters are changing quickly. What can we expect from our winters in the future?

Words from Viktor and Kajsa:

"We are two snowboarders, Viktor Björnström and Kajsa Määttä from Kiruna/Riksgränsen in the northernmost parts of Sweden. As for most people in the north, the long arctic winter is one of the main reasons for us to live here. However, global warming is increasing at more than twice the rate in the far north compared to the global average, and will accelerate even more (fresh reports say four times faster). Most of the warming is taking place in the winter and we have seen some alarming results already, the winter we’ve seen in many parts of Europe this year will unfortunately become a more and more common scenario. Climate change is affecting all of us in the global snowboard- and ski community eventually.

Yet there is little information about this that reaches all the way out to the mainstream snowboarding scene. We thought that we must tell this story, about what already has occurred and what is predicted to happen, and TRACKS is the result. To turn the negative trend of global warming, and secure the ability to snowboard and ski on planet earth in the next century, huge change is needed right now. We as a community need to play our part in this by spreading the word and help to create the public opinion needed to affect the politics."

Written, directed, filmed and edited by
Viktor Björnström & Kajsa Määttä

Filmed in Riksgränsen, Sweden

Produced by Nordsidan Produktion AB
Co-produced with Filmpool Nord AB
With support from Region Norrbotten, Stiftelsen Greta and Protect Our Winters Sweden

Music by:
William Godin, Viktor Björnström, 
Folke Nikanor and The Small Crowd, 
The Soundkeeper
Axel Andersson

Snowboarders: 
Kajsa Määttä, Viktor Björnström, Joakim Rasmussen, Björn Lindgren, Anton Forsén, 
Simon Bonthron, Isa Lindgren Stålnacke, Isolde Lexvall, Albert Björnström m.fl.

Scientist: Keith Larson 
Film consultant: Katja Härkönen
Grade: Halo art
Logo: Evermind Design
Sound Design: Ljudbang