2024 Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour has returned LIVE!
Join Alpine Shop and Banff Centre for the 2023-2024 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 2023-2024 World Tour is an exhilarating and provocative exploration of the mountain world.
Complete Program List for both nights is coming soon!
Wednesday, March 20th- PAINTBRUSH Progam – 7 pm
2023, USA, 4 min
Filmmaker: Nathan McBride, NVisual Media
Advisory: Coarse Language
Paramotoring is a niche, largely undocumented , and little-known flying sport. This piece brings it to light in a rightfully epic way. Shot over 6 days, with multiple paramotor pilots, Desert Wings highlights some of the most dramatic
desert landscapes in the American Southwest.
2023, USA, 14 min
Filmmaker: Timmy O’Neill, Sarah Lee Steele, Well Travelled Collective
Advisory: None
Soundscape features Erik Weihenmayer, a global adventure athlete and author who is fully blind, as he ascends a massive alpine rock face deep in the Sierra Nevada.
2023, USA, 10 min
Filmmaker: Mallory Duncan, Patrick Elmore, Uhara Mountain Collective
Advisory: None
A skier contemplates his connection to skiing and the mountains. As he hurries through the streets of L.A., his path takes a turn after bumping into a jazz musician who helps him discover the correlation between jazz and skiing- an expression of art, skiing, and black culture.
2023, Canada, 3 min
Filmmaker: Scott Secco, Scott Secco Films
Advisory: None
Watch Georgia Astle explore some of British Columbia’s most striking
landscapes, on a search for terrain to push her riding, inspired by the rising
tide of free riding females around the world.
2023, Canada, 35 min
Filmmaker: Laurent Paliquip, Nicholas Rouix
Advisory: Coarse language
Follow a team of highly motivated Quebeckers on one of the longest wilderness expeditions ever documented. Stage one involves skiing in relentless polar conditions from Ellesmere Island to the Northwest Passage. Cue canoes for a 2,000 km journey across Nunavut and North West Territories until they get on bikes and pedal 4,000 km to Point Pelee in Ontario.
2022, Canada, 8 min
Filmmaker: Andrea Wing, Aline Mayerhoffer, MMGY Origin
Advisory: None
Leo, a sought-after rock start with a promising career, turns his back on the industry to pursue a life on the land with a herd of buffalo.
2023, USA, 33 min
Filmmaker: Kaki Orr, Rob Wassmer, Aidan Haley, Christina Lustenberger, The North Face
Advisory: Coarse language
In 2022, Hilaree Nelson, Emily Harrington, Christina Lustenberger, and Brette Harrington embarked on an expedition above the Arctic circle. ehat they found was a celebration of where they’ve been and of where they’re going- and the trips success was contingent not on what they skied but the time they had together.
2023, USA, 11 min
Filmmaker: Darby McAdams, Ashley Peel, Rush Sturges, McAdams Films
Advisory: None
In the tourism town of Livingstone, Zambia, a group of local men who make their living portering kayaks aspire to become safety kayakers on the Zambezi River. The proposed Batoka Gorge Hydroelectric Scheme threatens to flood the famous rapids of the Zambezi and eliminate river related jobs.
2022, USA, 20 min
Filmmaker: Bronwyn Hodgins, Savannah Cummins, Savy Media
Advisory: None
Rising out of the arid Mexican desert lies a 900 ft ship’s prow of elegant limestone sporting a 9-pitch 5.13 established in the 90s by Jeff Jackson. Shrouded in mysticism, the bolts rusted and the holds collecting dust until a couple of young gals from Canada decided to give it a try.
Thursday, March 21st – ARNICA Progam – 7 pm
2023, Canada, 9 min
Filmmaker: Clay Mitchell, Simon Shave, CK9 Studios
Advisory: Coarse language
The Blondes, three strange animals. Who are they? What are they thinking? Are they naturally blonde? This is a film highlighting the ski crew The Blondes through their friendship and adventures in skiing and in life.
2023, USA, 27 min
Filmmaker: Santino Martirano
Advisory: Coarse language
Doctors gave him until age twenty-five to live and now 10 years after his expiration date, hi is still climbing. Despite having Cystic Fibrosis, Klaas Willems has bolted hundreds of routes in Sardina, Italy and dedicated his life to climbing.
2022, Canada, 12 min
Filmmaker: Joel Fuller, Michael Overbeck
Advisory: None
The trail-running community is constantly evolving. Lately runners have progressed, drawing from the world of alpinism, rock climbing, and running and tackling technical terrain in a way we’ve never seen. Watch as Emma Cook-Clarke and Jesse McAuley dig deep on the west peak of Ch’ich’iyúy Elxwíkn, the Twin Sisters (or the Lions), an iconic Sea to Sky trail.
2023, Canada, 30 min
Filmmaker: Seth Gillis, Aline Mayerhoffer, Sandy Ward
Advisory: Coarse language
Two young brothers from the Lil’wat Nation set out to ski the sacred mountain they were raised beneath, pushing both themselves and their culture to evolve.
2023, USA, 5 min
Filmmaker: Maxwell Frank, Becky Gardner, WTB
Advisory: None
Mountain Biker Israel Carrillo shows us his hometown of Guanajuato, Mexico, and the difficulties and differences of being a mountain biker in Mexico.
2023, Switzerland, 26 min
Filmmaker: Nicolas Bossard, MS PROD
Advisory: Coarse Language
Following in the footsteps of pioneer jumpers from 1990, French BASE jumpers Eric Jamet and Antione Pecher jump from the top of the Nameless Tower in Pakistan after climbing the Eternal Flame route, combining one of the most beautiful ascents with one of the most exhilarating descents in the world.
2022, USA, 12 min
Filmmaker: Max Erickson, Jared Zissu, Flylords, Fiska Media
Advisory: Course Language
Rachel Finn, a female fishing guide in the Adirondacks, grapples with life after loss. While taking a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Argentina, she navigates moving forward in a an unapologetic true-to-self way, that brings a smile to everyone who crosses her path.
2021, USA & Canada, 12min
Filmmaker: Chris Parr, Flutter Brothers Productions
Advisory: Coarse language
After winning the American Birkenbeiner, the largest cross country ski race in North America, Joey Dubay was disqualified for wearing the wrong bib. Now, 11 years later, Joe and his former roommate who lent him the bib- Chris- document their return to the Birkenheiner to pioneer a new sport: tandem cross country skiing.