Films
24 Leeches
10Mins
24 Leeches documents a family canoe adventure to the Slate Islands of Ontario, Canada and more importantly a way of life. One part family adventure, one part environmental film, 24 Leeches is a tribute to a father's best friend and adventure partner, his 10-year-old son.
Year
2020
Director
Aaron Peterson
Producer
Aaron Peterson
Production Company
Aaron Peterson Studios
Has subtitles
No
A Few Steps From Home
7Mins
The idea is simple. A small mountain hut, a warm stove, and three friends. Even if the big cities of Munich and Innsbruck are almost in sight, wild mountain adventures can often be found right out the back door.
Year
2020
Country
Germany
Director
Philipp Becker, Johannes Müller
Production Company
El Flamingo GmbH
Has subtitles
Yes
A Plea for Refuge
30Mins
Two adventurous friends, Jeff Shapiro and Cody Tuttle, have a desire to experience one of the last, raw, and truly preserved wilderness areas on the North American continent. Through the attempt to hike and fly paragliders across the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the eastern Brooks Range of Alaska, north of the Arctic Circle, they gain a necessary and visceral connection with the importance of fiercely protecting its nature. During the adventure, their perspectives on friendship, risk and the importance of the word wilderness evolve, making for memories of a lifetime; lifetimes which prove to not only to be finite, but worth sharing if the result is to maintain this special landscape, as it is, for generations to come.
Premiere
World Premiere
Year
2020
Director
Daniel Holmes
Producer
Barry Barr
Production Company
KAVU FILMS
Has subtitles
No
Anay Kachi: The Salt Workers of the Peruvian Andes
12Mins
At 3,300 m above sea level in the Peruvian Andes, indigenous people have been harvesting salt by hand for over 600 years, prior to the Inca times. Through the eyes of Laurita, a 65-year-old indigenous salt worker, this short film explores the cultural importance that this place has had for the people of Maras and how it is shaping the next generation.
Premiere
World Premiere
Year
2019
Country
Canada
Director
Cristóbal Ruiz
Thomas Silcock
Toto Thots
Producer
Cristóbal Ruiz
Production Company
Pachamama Film
Has subtitles
Yes
Trailer
BEAR-LIKE (DER BÄR IN MIR)
91Mins
Two adventurers engage in close contact with grizzly bears in Alaska experiencing first-hand the struggle for survival and dramatic fighting scenes. Driven by a desire to explore the unknown, the film tells a personal story of wilderness, framed through breathtaking footage of these amazing creatures.
Premiere
Alberta Premiere
Year
2019
Country
Switzerland
Producer
Roman Droux
Production Company
Memox
Has subtitles
Yes
Trailer
Beyond the cliche
24Mins
Biologist and passionate wildlife photographer Baptiste Bataille takes an uncommon journey to the foothills of the Himalaya in search of the elusive snow leopard.
Premiere
World Premiere
Year
2020
Country
Belgium
Director
Baptiste Bataille, Samuel Vandenberg
Producer
Samuel Vandenberg, Baptiste Bataille
Has subtitles
Yes
The Big Bang
28Mins
In 2017 Emma Twyford walked across a rocky outcrop towards the historical crag of Lower Pen Twyrn with the sole intention to “have a play and see what 9a feels like”. Follow Emma on this ambitious journey to becoming one of the most respected climbers in UK.
Premiere
North American Premiere
Year
2019
Country
United Kingdom
Producer
David Petts
Has subtitles
No
Trailer
Born From Junk
14Mins
Born From Junk traces the outlaw roots of mountain biking back to its raw beginnings in Crested Butte, where a crew of unlikely pioneers in pursuit of wild times in the mountains blossomed into a global phenomenon.
Premiere
Canadian Premiere
Year
2020
Country
United States
Director
Galin Foley, Mike Horn
Producer
Mike Horn
Has subtitles
No
Trailer
The Chairlift
12Mins
An ode to the often over-looked device that enabled a sport and still acts as a central pillar of ski culture to this day.
Year
2020
Country
Canada
Director
Mike Douglas
Producer
Mike Gamble
Production Company
Switchback Entertainment
Has subtitles
No
Charge 2
3Mins
Five top freeskiers and one World Champion drone pilot go Cat Skiing in BC for a week. Their instructions: charge as hard as you can everyday.
Year
2020
Country
Canada
Director
Anthony Bonello
Producer
Mike Douglas, Mike Gamble
Production Company
Switchback Entertainment
Has subtitles
No
Advisory
G
Cholitas
80Mins
Five Indigenous Bolivian women embark on a unique expedition as a symbol of liberation and empowerment. Their goal? The highest peak in the Americas, Aconcagua.
Premiere
Canadian Premiere
Year
2019
Country
Spain
Director
Pablo Iraburu , Jaime Murciego
Producer
Itziar García Zubiri
Production Company
Arena Comunicación Audiovisual
Has subtitles
Yes
Trailer
Choosing To Live
7Mins
While mourning her late husband, Sarah Hornby craved an opportunity to connect with him through his biggest passion. Her goal was simple. She would attempt 10 bikepacking routes he created – and as she pedaled, her story transformed from sadness and loss to a profound celebration of life.
Year
2019
Country
Canada
Producer
Matt Clark, Jeff Bartlett
Production Company
Jeff Bartlett Media Inc.
Has subtitles
No
Trailer
Climbing Blind
57Mins
Jesse Dufton was born with 20% central vision. As his sight continues to degenerate his climbing continues to make remarkable progress. Despite his devastating condition Jesse takes on bigger challenges by attempting to be the first blind person to lead climb the iconic Old Man of Hoy in Scotland.
Premiere
Alberta Premiere
Year
2019
Country
United Kingdom
Director
Alastair Lee
Producer
Alastair Lee
Production Company
Posing Productions
Has subtitles
No
Trailer
Concepcion
10Mins
This past spring, climber Hazel Findlay faced off with the immaculate 70-metre splitter, Concepción (5.13), located in the southwest desert near Moab, Utah. With a 15-metre crux of what Hazel describes as “purple and greens”– meaning .5 and .75 Camalots – Concepción pushed Hazel harder than she expected. Ironically success sometimes happens when “you just kind of let yourself climb.”
Year
2019
Country
United States
Director
Cameron Maier
Producer
Cameron Maier
Production Company
Bearcam Media
Has subtitles
No
Confessions of a Runner
28Mins
Ultra-running evokes notions of insanity, dedication, and the pursuit of mind over body. A blend of eye-popping scenery, extreme human achievement, and revealing personal stories, Confessions of a Runner features Patrick Vaughan, an accomplished trail runner as he shares his story of healing and redemption while pursuing the record for completing the 470-kilometre Lebanon Mountain Trail, traversing from Syria to the Israeli border.
Year
2020
Country
United States
Director
Bachar Khattar
Producer
Jerome Gary, Denise Jabbour, Tim Rockwood, Bachar Khattar, Patrick Vaughan
Production Company
House of Steep Productions
Has subtitles
Yes
Trailer
Connection
29Mins
A highline project organized by passionate woman all around the globe.
Premiere
Canadian Premiere
Year
2020
Country
Czechia
Producer
Jan Zurek
Has subtitles
Yes
Trailer
The Cull - Scotland's Deer Dilemma
58Mins
There are estimated to be over 350,000 red deer in Scotland. Deer populations, when uncontrolled, have a massive impact on the landscape and ecosystem structures of the Highlands. As a result, deer are culled each year in an attempt to manage and maintain the landscape and ecosystem that they are a central part of. Over the last thirty years however, a debate has raged regarding the size, nature, and purpose of the deer cull. The impact of this debate changes how people see, interact with and even inhabit the Scottish highlands.
Year
2020
Country
United Kingdom
Director
Ted Simpson
Producer
Finbar O'Sullivan
Production Company
Just Trek
Has subtitles
No
Trailer
Day 1
4Mins
Five years after breaking his back in a snowboarding accident and being left paralyzed from the waist down, Trevor Kennison returns to the backcountry with a new outlook.
Premiere
Canadian Premiere
Year
2020
Country
United States
Director
Josh Berman
Producer
Josh Berman
Production Company
Level 1 Productions, Inc
Has subtitles
No
Dollar Short
11Mins
After robbing a bank, athletes Jake Hopfinger and Parkin Costain are now flush with cash and are able to live all of their wildest skiing fantasies.
Year
2020
Country
United States
Director
Alex D'Agostino, Caleb Chicoine
Producer
Caleb Chicoine
Has subtitles
No
Earn Your Turn
21Mins
Born in the French Alps, mountains flow through Julien “Pica” Herry’s veins. A modest pioneer of steeps and alpine terrain, his skills take him to places few have gone before. Earn Your Turn is the story of a simple, humble man who finds fulfillment in sharing his love and respect for mountains across the globe.
Premiere
North American Premiere
Year
2020
Country
France
Director
Arthur Ghilini
Producer
Alexis Blaise
Production Company
Invade Media Production
Has subtitles
Yes
Echoes In The Arctic
16Mins
Echoes in the Arctic follows celebrated wildlife photographer Paul Nicklen and a team of dedicated filmmakers and scientists on a vivid cinematic journey as they document the world's healthiest orca population in the Norwegian Arctic in the hopes of protecting the ecosystem from oil exploration.
Year
2020
Country
United States
Director
Paul Nicklen
Tahria Sheather
Andy Maser
Producer
Paul Nicklen
Tahria Sheather
Andy Maser
Production Company
Only One, SeaLegacy
Has subtitles
No
The Elder (The Winter)
11Mins
The Ainu are an ancient people of Japan, who largely inhabit Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan's four main islands. For centuries, Ainu elders have passed down important history, songs, and dances through oral lore. In a remote Kotan called Lake Akan, these traditions live on today.
Year
2020
Country
United States
Director
Tim Kemple
Producer
Aimee Tetreault
Production Company
Camp4 Collective
Has subtitles
Yes
Advisory
G
Far Far Est
7Mins
Far Far Est is a proud Québecois short film about Charles and Olivier’s love for skiing and surfing on the North-American East coast. While they might not be dropping into the craziest ski lines you will see this year, the two explorers make sure to turn this trip into a real-life fairy tale.
Year
2020
Country
Canada
Producer
Zacharie Turgeon
Has subtitles
Yes
Advisory
G
Trailer
FKT
10Mins
We follow Salomon-athlete Jeanelle Hazlett as she attempts to establish a Fastest Known Time (FKT) record on Mount Brunswick, British Columbia. One wrong step could mean serious injury or death.
Year
2019
Country
Canada
Producer
Brice Ferré
Production Company
Brice Ferre Studio
Has subtitles
No
Trailer
FLY SPITI
55Mins
Two of the most experienced paragliding pilots engage in exploration of the Spiti Valley in the Indian Himalaya. Thomas de Dorlodot, a multiple world record holder, leads Horacio Llorens, a six-time aerobatic world champion, to find out why few have tried to fly in this place where, according to local folklore, the gods live. Mountains brush against sky and glaciated peaks rise up to 6,500 metres high. Arid, dry, and rocky landscapes produce violent aerial conditions and their remoteness makes oxygen supplies impossible. Despite risks, the athletes take us on an exhilarating scenic discovery of this unique valley and the sky beyond.
Premiere
World Premiere
Year
2020
Country
Belgium
Director
Benoit Delfosse
Producer
Thomas de Dorlodot
Production Company
Search Production
Has subtitles
Yes
Trailer
Follow The Forecast
41Mins
As snow sport enthusiasts, we live and die by the forecast. We plan life around it, we revel in it. This winter we will relinquish control: to the forecast.
Premiere
Canadian Premiere
Year
2020
Country
Canada
Director
Alexi Godbout, Jeff Thomas
Producer
Stan Rey, Jeff Thomas, Alexi Godbout
Production Company
Blank Collective Films
Has subtitles
No
Trailer
Free as Can Be
31Mins
When a young climber infatuated with climbing history meets an old legend, he commits to helping him accomplish his lifelong goal of free-climbing El Capitan.
Year
2020
Country
United States
Director
Samuel Crossley
Producer
Justin Sweeney
Production Company
Samuel Crossley Media, LLC
Has subtitles
No
Advisory
| PG Coarse Language |
Trailer
From Kurils With Love
24Mins
Vladimir, a scrappy-but-aging Russian marine mammal biologist, unexpectedly hitch hikes aboard a boat filled with adventure photographers out of a desperate need to return to his science monitoring stations. Two weeks before, his boat was lost to the explosion of the Raikoke volcano. He is on a mission to help protect the Kuril Islands before his age fails him, and so the team sets out in one of the most remote volcanic island chains in the world to help Vladimir.
Premiere
Canadian Premiere
Year
2020
Country
United States
Director
Taylor Rees
Producer
Povel Torudd
Has subtitles
Yes
Trailer
The Ghosts Above
37Mins
A team sets out to solve one of the greatest mysteries in exploration: who made the first ascent of Mt. Everest. Every stereotype they know about the mountain and its people are turned on its end during this brutally honest look at the current state of affairs during one the busiest Everest seasons in history.
Year
2019
Country
United States
Director
Jay Macmillan, Renan Ozturk, Taylor Rees
Production Company
Expedition Studios
Has subtitles
No
Advisory
| PG |
Gitonga
46Mins
On the face of it, Gitonga is a film about a Kenyan father who rediscovers his love for hiking and sets out to follow his dream of becoming the first black Kenyan to climb Mount Everest. At its heart, this is the beautiful and emotional story of an extraordinary man who explores what it means to be a hiker, a father, and a human being. He is a man on a mission to inspire his son, his nation, and the world to do what ‘makes their heart dance’.
Premiere
North American Premiere
Year
2020
Country
Kenya
Director
Joe Bunyan
Producer
Joe Bunyan, Gitonga Wandai
Has subtitles
Yes
Trailer
Godspeed, Los Polacos!
90Mins
Godspeed, Los Polacos! is a feature length documentary set in Poland in 1979. The film tells the story of five university students on the edge of adulthood who skillfully pull the strings of the communist system and find themselves in the Americas with a six-wheeled military truck, homemade kayaks, and little-to-no whitewater skills. The story follows their epic two-year journey that culminates with an attempt of the world’s deepest canyon and a life-threatening dash for political asylum.
Year
2020
Country
United States
Director
Adam Nawrot
Producer
Sonia Szczesna
Production Company
Sourland Studios
Has subtitles
No
Trailer
The Great Milestone
12Mins
A well-to-do mountaineer’s hobby is reaching the summits of the highest mountains. He has one last goal to complete this special collection: that impossible summit, the one he is determined to climb, whatever it takes. Meanwhile his wife, bored of waiting for her husband to return from his excitement-packed mountain escapades, decides to take matters into her own hands.
Premiere
North American Premiere
Year
2020
Country
Spain
Director
Ignasi López Fàbregas
Producer
Ana Benigna Vega Pérez
Has subtitles
Yes
Trailer
Horimono: Japan's Tattoo Pilgrimage
17Mins
Japan has an uneasy relationship with tattoos, which have come to be associated with organized crime. Living amongst heavy stereotypes, a group of tattooed individuals practice a centuries-old pilgrimage to a mountain shrine, now one of the few places where the traditional full-body tattoo (“horimono”) can be shown and celebrated.
Premiere
Canadian Premiere
Year
2019
Country
United States
Director
David Caprara, Kira Dane
Producer
Alice Gordenker
Has subtitles
Yes
Imagine
11Mins
For years Kieren D’Souza has been planning a new speed record on the 53-kilometre route up Mt. Friendship, a peak towering above Manali, the town in Himachal Pradesh where D’Souza lives. Usually, teams rope up, carry ice axes, and take four or five days to reach the summit and get back to base camp. If something goes wrong, you’re on your own. Hoping to set a snowball in motion, Kieren sets off with the goal of inspiring Indians to experience mountains in a different way.
Year
2020
Country
India
Director
Prashant Bhatt
Production Company
4Play Media And Communication LLP
Has subtitles
Yes
Advisory
PG
Iran, Teaching among the Nomads
52Mins
Hoomayun, a young Iranian school teacher, sets off on a journey to accompany a group of Bakhtyari nomads as they migrate with their flock across the Zagros mountain range in search of greener pastures. At the end of every walking day, he gathers the children and teaches the class. Hoomayun is committed to providing the best education possible to his students, most of whom want to settle in the city. The children are indeed reluctant to pursue a life of hardships in the footsteps of their parents, but without a proper education, they stand very little chance to find a job and survive in the city.
Premiere
North American Premiere
Year
2019
Country
France
Director
Louis Meunier
Producer
Manuel Catteau, Marion Claus
Has subtitles
Yes
Trailer
The Jujurana's Kingdom
9Mins
This short film takes us on a journey into the kingdom of the Jujurana. It highlights what it takes to protect one of the most vulnerable pheasants in the world at a time when India is rapidly losing its biodiversity. The state of Himachal Pradesh is not only home to one of the largest protected populations of these birds, but is also the only place in the world where they are currently being bred in captivity for eventual release in the wild.
Year
2019
Country
India
Director
Munmun Dhalaria
Production Company
National Geographic Society
Has subtitles
Yes
Trailer
K2: The Impossible Descent
65Mins
K2, the Savage Mountain, holds a mythical place in the hearts of climbers around the world –1 in 4 do not return from it. On July 22, 2018, Polish ski-mountaineer Andrzej Bargiel makes ‘the impossible descent’ from its summit. He does it solo, and without supplemental oxygen. The mountaineering community are stunned and mainstream press take notice. This feature documentary explores the man behind the achievement and the circumstances he endured to get there. His close-knit crew (including his younger brother) overcome biblical weather, unchartered terrain, and life-threatening rescue missions.
Year
2020
Country
Austria
Director
Slawomir Batyra