Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour

JANUARY 30-31, 2025

Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour SHOW PROGRAMME

Quartzite Program (January 30) 1. Anytime - Switzerland (Tour Edit) (2024, Canada, 04:39 min)

Director: Darcy Wittenburg, Colin Jones, Darren McCullough Producer: Darcy Wittenburg, Ian Dunn, Galen Knowles Production Company: Anthill Films, Red Bull Media House Film Synopsis: Set in the Lenzerheide Bike Park this segment will highlight the fact that good times are at the core of it all. Witness the ultimate display of skill and progression as they unleash a frenzy of multi-rider sessions, intertwining lines, and mind-blowing tricks.

Leave your preconceptions behind and join the revolution, as these women prove they’re not just riding – they’re reigning.

2. Jamrock: The birth of Jamaican rock climbing (2024, USA, 16:50 min) Director: Gareth Leah Producer: Gareth Leah Production Company: Well Good Productions Film Synopsis: 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.

3. Of A Lifetime (2024, Switzerland, 44:00 min)

Director: Jérôme Tanon Producer: Xavier de Le Rue, Beanie de Le Rue Production Company: Sarl XDLR Suisse Advisory: Coarse language Film Synopsis: Of a Lifetime is a celebration of discovery, adventure, and the passing of the torch to the next generation against the breathtaking backdrop of Antarctica. It 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 steep icy lines of the white continent.

4.The Smoke that Thunders (2024, Canada, 04:11 min)

2024 Banff Mountain Film Competition: ***CREATIVE EXCELLENCE AWARD*** Director: Caleb Roberts Producer: Caleb Roberts Film Synopsis: Aiming to paddle the fabled Minus rapids at the base of 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.pits and underwater squeezes, these are places where no person has been before.

5. The Last Observers (2024, USA, 24:00 min)

Director: Maja K Mikkelsen Producer: Adam Mikkelsen Production Company: Patagonia Films Film Synopsis: 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.

6. Reel Rock: Jirishanca (2024, USA, 31:45 min)

Director: Peter Mortimer, Josh Lowell Producer: Zachary Barr, Halle Johns Exec Producer: Alex Lowther, Monika McClure, Justin Roth Production Company: Sender Films, Patagonia Films Advisory: Coarse & sexual language Film Synopsis: Renowned alpinists Josh Wharton and Vince Anderson attempt a free ascent of the Jirishanca, an epic 6000-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.

7. Sliding (2024, United States Virgin Islands, 03:56 min)

Director: Katie Tannenbaum, Matiss Spaile Producer: Katie Tannenbaum, Juris Kudeiko Production Company: N/A Film Synopsis: A female athlete skips the crowded ski slopes to traverse the Swiss Alps on her sled... headfirst.

Sandstone Program (January 31) 1. The Streif (2024, Austria, 03:21 min)

Director: Fabio Wibmer, Christoph Thoresen Producer: Tobi Reindl, Thomas Wernhart Production Company: Legs of Steel in cooperation with Sick Cinema Film Synopsis: Fabio Wibmer is back on Snow. This time crashing the preparations for the most legendary ski race in the world - the Streif.

2. River Mamma (2023, USA, 10:30 min)

Director: Sarah Hamilton Producer: Sarah Hamilton Film, Ryan Weigman Production Company: N/A Advisory: Coarse language Film Synopsis: River Mamma follows Elisha McArthur, a lifelong raft guide and single mom and her relationship with her teenage goth daughter, Charlotte, who has no interest in rivers at all.

3. 109 Below (2023, France, 15mins)

2024 Banff Mountain Film Competition: ***BEST FILM: MOUNTAIN SPORTS*** (2023, USA, 13:49 min) Director: Nick Martini Producer: Sarah Stewart, Ben Osborne, Lex Hinson Production Company: Stept Studios Film Synopsis: 109 Below tells a tale of resilience and grit when elite rescue volunteers go out of their way to save the lives of strangers.

4. Keep It Burning (2024, Spain, 32:40 min)

Director: Guillaume Broust Producer: Manu Moreau Production Company: Petzl Film Synopsis: The Karakoram is the wildest mountain range in the world and Nameless Tower beckons to climbers who approach. Edu Marín, his brother Alex and father Novato attempt the second free ascent of Eternal Flame 33 years after the first ascent by Wolfgang Güllich and Kurt Albert, and 13 years after Alex and Thomas Huber’s first free ascent.

5. Welcome to the Pit (2024, Canada, 14:45 min)

Director: Seth Gillis Producer: Charlène Brochu Production Company: N/A Advisory: Coarse language Film Synopsis: In 2011, Steve Matthews had a bright idea. With his kids completely hooked on snowboarding, he rallied a few friends and set out to build Yellowknife’s first and only rope tow.

6. Dolomites (Tour Edit) (2024, France, 33:07 min)

Director: Kilian Bron, Valentin Birant Producer: Kilian Bron Production Company: VB Films Film Synopsis: Mountain biking free solo and more... Kilian Bron and his team take you on a thrilling and history-rich adventure, riding the steepest trails of the Dolomites.

7. Undammed (2024, USA, 17:00 min)

Director: Shane Anderson Producer: Shane Anderson Production Company: Patagonia Films, Swiftwater Films Film Synopsis: After witnessing a massive fish kill on her ancestral home waters, Yurok tribal attorney Amy Bowers Cordalis dedicated her life to reversing the generations-long destruction wrought by the Klamath River dams. Undammed follows her journey to free the Klamath, from testifying before Congress to passing down fishing traditions within her young family.

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ARTS VISONARY Brent & Carolyn Buchwald Anita & Ted Chase Brian Couchie Don & Nora Coutts

Sharon Cunningham Doug Jeffery Rod Johnston Theresa Nadeau

David & Cindy Pisaric Stephanie Ramsay Cecelia & Wolf Seidler Zoe Warenik

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Jack Bryce

Susan Johnston

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