2025 Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour has returned LIVE!
Join Alpine Shop and Banff Centre for the 2024-2025 Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour as we make our way back to The Hi-Pointe Theatre for two nights. Tickets are available here.
The largest and most recognized name in adventure and environmental films, the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour features a collection of the most inspiring and thought-provoking action, environmental, and adventure mountain films. Traveling from remote landscapes and cultures to up close and personal with adrenaline-packed action sports, the 2024-2025 World Tour is an exhilarating and provocative exploration of the mountain world.
The 2025 Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour is brought to you locally in St. Louis, in cooperation with Alpine Shop, by:
Granite Progam – March 19th, 2025 @ 7PM
2024, Canada, 8 min
Filmmaker: Darcy Wittenburg, Colin Jones, Darren McCollough, Galen Knowles, Ian Dunn, Anthill Films, Red Bull Media House
Advisory: Coarse Language
In Utah’s rugged, arid landscape, a new era of female freeride mountain biking is born. Follow four trailblazing women as they carve unprecedented lines and push the limits of what is possible.
desert landscapes in the American Southwest.
2024, Australia, 8 min
Filmmaker: Matt Raimondo, GoodFolk Film Production
Advisory: None
Meet 72-year-old Australian climber, Ian Elliott. ian’s extraordinary climbing ability defies age stereotypes, showcasing his resilience and challenging societal perceptions.
2024, Austria, 33 min
Filmmaker: Loïc Isliker, Johannes Hoffman
Advisory: Coarse Language
Join a group of curious skiers on a mission to travel as far east as possible using only public transport, skiing along the way.
2024, USA, 7 min
Filmmaker: Tammy Susa, BTX Productions
Advisory: None
Steve Karczewski was born with bone cancer in his left leg and has never known what it is like to have two legs, but that hasn’t prevented him from doing anything and everything he’s ever wanted as an outdoor athlete.
2024, Iceland, 9 min
Filmmaker: Elli Thor Magnusson, Ben Weiland, Steve Lewis, 104 Frames
Advisory: Coarse language
House of Bliss (Saeluhus) documents the making of a shelter situated somewhere on the border of reality and imagination. A private world of contemplation and quiet relief from the outside world.
2024, Spain, 36 min
Filmmaker: David Arnaud, MOVIO, Red Bull Media House
Advisory: Coarse Language
For years, professional kayaker Aniol Serrasolses has dreamed of running the rivers and waterfalls formed by melting ice caps and gigantic glaciers. Accompanied by a team of expert kayakers and Arctic guides, he ventures into one of the most remote and rugged regions of the planet: Svalbard. Amidst the Arctic’s otherworldly landscapes, reality is about to surpass his wildest dreams.
2024, USA, 16 min
Filmmaker: Alexis Berg, Julien Raison, Sarah Stewart, Jon Brogan, Laura Mittleberg, Jason Israel, Marion Blache, Oliver Denton, Stept Studios
Advisory: None
Ultra-runner Courtney Dauwalter is one of the greatest athletes in the history of the sport. Continuing to shatter records, in 2023 she became the first person ever to wear the Triple Crown of ultra-running, winning three iconic 100+mile races back-to-back in one summer. But who is the team behind Courtney and her remarkable success.
Quartzite Progam – March 20th, 2025 @ 7PM
2024, Canada, 5 min
Filmmaker: Darcy Wittenberg, Colin Jones, Darren McCullough, Anthill Films, Red Bull Media House, Ian Dunn, Galen Knowles
Advisory: None
Set in the Lenzerheide Bike Park this segment will highlight the fact that good times are at the core of it all. Leave your preconceptions behind and join the revolution as these women prove they’re not just riding- they’re reigning.
2024, USA, 17 min
Filmmaker: Gareth Leah, Well Good Productions
Advisory: None
Kai Lightner, a 12-time national US climbing champion and the visionary founder of “Climb for Change” embarks on a transformative mission into the heart of Jamaica’s emerging climbing community, where passion and determination thrive despite limited resources and recognition.
2024, Switzerland, 44 min
Filmmaker: Jerôme Tanon, Sarl XDLR Suisse, Xavier de Le Rue, Beanie de Le Rue
Advisory: Coarse Language
Of A Lifetime chronicles the renowned De Le Rue Family’s journey as Xavier, Victor, and 18-year-old Mila sail across the Drake Passage to ride the unimaginably steeo ice lines of the white continent.
2024, Canada, 5 min
Filmmaker: Caleb Roberts
Advisory: None
Aiming to paddle the fabled Minus rapids at the base of the Victoria Falls on the Zambezi river, Ben Marr’s biggest challenge is to access them by trekking upstream. A total assault on the senses awaits as the force of the river speaks for itself.
Filmmaker: Maja K Mikkelsen, Patagonia Films, Adam Mikkelsen
Advisory: None
For decades, every third hour around the clock, every day of the year, Karin Persson and Lennart Karlsson have gone outside to observe and record the weather. At one of the last manual weather stations on the planet, there are no days off.
2024, USA, 32 min
Filmmaker: Peter Mortimer, Josh Lowell, Zachary Barr, Halle Johns, Sender Films, Patagonia Films
Advisory: Coarse and sexual Language
Renowned alpinists Josh Wharton and Vince Anderson attempt a free ascent of the Jirishanca, an epic 6,000-metre peak in the Peruvian Andes. The duo will have to tackle 5.13 face climbing, horizontal ice roofs, technical mixed terrain, and treacherous snow mushrooms as they reconcile the inherent risk of climbing with their love of alpine adventure.
2024, United States Virgin Islands, 4 min
Filmmaker: Katie Tannenbaum, Matiss Spaile, Juris Kudeiko
Advisory: None
A female athlete skips the crowded ski slopes to tracers the Swiss Alps on her sled… headfirst.