All 21/22 World Tour Films at-a-glance
Please note that not all films will be played in every location – a standard program contains between six and ten films.
For more information on past World Tour films, check out the Festival Archive.
Films
Always Higher
11Mins
Lysanne Richard is one of the world’s best international competition high divers. But the 39 year-old Canadian mother of three is ready to focus on personal projects of her own. First on the list is a 22 meter high dive in the dead of winter over a frozen lake, a feat that has never been done. But will it be enough?
Year
2021
Country
Canada
Director
Alexa Fay
Producer
Sophie Claivaz-Loranger
Production Company
La Boîte à Films
Has subtitles
Yes
Advisory
General
Arves-En-Ciel (Tour Edit)
16Mins
Camille and Antoine, two French slackliners and alpinists have a dream, to walk between two iconic rock towers. Arves-En-Ciel tells the story of an amazing project, which required a huge team of invested people to be fulfilled.
Year
2020
Country
France
Director
Antoine Mesnage
Producer
Antoine Mesnage
Production Company
Esprits Outdoor Production
Has subtitles
Yes
Advisory
General - Non-sexual nudity
ASCEND: Reframing Disability in the Outdoors
12Mins
Vasu Sojitra is not trying to inspire you to feel good. His trauma doesn’t exist solely to benefit the education of others. He is seeking to inspire you to move mountains. To take action. Skiing is the method, but the real mountains are the “isms” that fail to support Disabled communities, communities of color and so many others for whom access has not been a right.
Year
2021
Country
United States
Director
Faith E. Briggs
Producer
Mike Ferrell
Production Company
TopTop Studio
Has subtitles
No
Advisory
Coarse Language
BEAR-LIKE (DER BÄR IN MIR) (Tour Edit)
55Mins
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.
Year
2019
Country
Switzerland
Director
Roman Droux
Producer
Roman Droux
Production Company
Memox
Has subtitles
Yes
Advisory
Coarse Language, Violence
Between Walls
2Mins
In spring 2019 gigantic walls of snow piled up along the high mountain road to the Timmelsjoch, Austria. Johanna Bolanos Cabrera and Jasmijn Hanegraef grabbed their longboards and took the opportunity to ride through this stunning scenery. Speed is what the girls live for!
Year
2020
Country
Austria
Director
Johannes Hoffmann
Jakob Schweighofer
Simon Platzer
Producer
Whiteroom Productions
Has subtitles
No
Advisory
General
Breaking Trail
30Mins
As Covid-19 surges amidst ongoing civil unrest, Emily Ford sets out with a borrowed sled dog named Diggins to become the first woman and person of color to thru-hike the 1900 km Ice Age Trail in winter. As the 69-day journey through subzero temperatures tests her physical and mental endurance, Emily and her canine protector develop an unbreakable bond as they embrace the unexpected kindness of strangers.
Year
2021
Country
United States
Director
Jesse Roesler
Producer
Jen Larson Roesler, Jesse Roesler, James Mills
Production Company
Credo Nonfiction
Has subtitles
No
Advisory
General
Can't Beat This Place For Fun
13Mins
This film is a small vignette of Fretwater Boatworks, a very unique boat crafting shop that keeps the tradition of wooden dory building alive whilst honoring the dreams of Grand Canyon pioneer Martin Litton. These beautiful boats still represent advocacy toward wild places compromised and/or lost.
Year
2020
Country
United States
Director
Dawn Kish
Producer
John Tveten
Production Company
Dawn Kish Photo and Film LLC
Has subtitles
No
Advisory
General
Trailer
A Dog's Tale (Tour Edit)
5Mins
There’s something primal about the feeling of the forest floor under your paws and smelling a thousand different smells all at once. The freedom of the trail is what we long for.
Year
2021
Country
Canada
Director
Darren McCullough
Producer
Darcy Wittenburg
Production Company
Anthill Films
Has subtitles
No
Advisory
General
Dream Mountain
18Mins
Pasang Lhamu Sherpa Akita is an international high mountain guide, an accomplished mountaineer, humanitarian, and a mother. She reflects on her personal highs and lows and rediscovers for herself just how much the mountains mean to her.
Year
2020
Country
United States
Director
InLightWorks Productions
Producer
Keith Carlsen
Cira Crowell
Production Company
InLightWorks Productions
Has subtitles
Yes
Advisory
General
Em
14Mins
Emilie Pellerin has spent most of her adult life travelling the world and living a dirtbag life. She has honed her skills on the rock and in the process has become one of the world’s best onsight climbers and now she’s ready to put onsighting aside and try pushing her level on her hardest trad route yet, La Zébrée, a spectacular 5.14a overhanging crack in Quebec.
Year
2021
Country
Canada
Director
Alexa Fay
Producer
Sophie Claivaz-Loranger
Production Company
La Boîte à Films
Has subtitles
No
Advisory
Coarse Language
Trailer
Exit the North Pole (Tour Edit)
51Mins
Børge Ousland is one of the worlds most experienced polar explorers. He has been to the North Pole several times, solo and with others. On this journey he is joined by South African Mike Horn for an insane 1500km skiing journey across the polar ice cap in temperatures below -30C and mostly travelling in darkness. Not surprisingly, not everything goes as planned.
Year
2021
Country
Norway
Director
Ole-André Lagmandokk
Producer
Svein Haaland
Has subtitles
Yes
Advisory
General
The Farmer
3Mins
A local legend in the Wasatch Mountains, the Farmer spends his winters harvesting one of the most precious crops on earth: Powder.
Year
2021
Country
United States
Director
Michael James Brown
Producer
Michael James Brown
Production Company
Sweetgrass Productions LLC
Has subtitles
No
Advisory
General
FINALLY
13Mins
After two months of confinement, Ben Buratti, the prodigy of French freesking, needed to feel what he was of capable again. As a setting, he chose his home mountain of La Clusaz. What skier doesn't dream of finding themselves completely alone on their home mountain ? A dream that generates a lot of emotion and unearths even more questions.
Year
2020
Country
France
Director
Marc Augey
Andy Collet
Producer
Andy Collet
Alex Hamelin
Production Company
PVS Company
Has subtitles
Yes
Advisory
General
Follow The Light
3Mins
From sunsets over dramatic landscapes to the illumination of hot air balloons and the warm ambience of Turkey, immerse yourself in this colorful adventure with riders Kilian Bron, Pierre Henni, Pierre Dupont and JB Liautard.
Year
2021
Country
France
Director
Pierre Henni
Production Company
Commencal
Has subtitles
No
Advisory
General
A Foreign Native (Tour Edit)
49Mins
A professional skier leaves his familiar world behind and spends close to a year in Iran. When military activity ramps up in January and Covid-19 hits in February of 2020 his journey takes a very different route. Learning Farsi and playing the Tanbur, he goes to explore the South of Iran with his new and old friends.
Year
2021
Country
Austria
Director
Jonas Abenstein
Producer
Karin Lechner
Production Company
NINE&ONE
Red Bull Media House
Has subtitles
Yes
Advisory
General
From My Window
19Mins
From her bedroom window, Melissa Simpson looks out at the highest peaks in Colorado. Despite being so close, the mountains have always been worlds away for Melissa, who was born with cerebral palsy. With the help of her friend and mentor, blind adventurer Erik Weihenmayer, Melissa sets out to conquer something far greater than a summit.
Year
2020
Country
United States
Director
Frank Pickell
Producer
Christian Silberbauer
Production Company
Futuristic Films
Has subtitles
No
Advisory
General
Girls Gotta Eat Dirt
6Mins
The story of three best friends, roommates, and riding partners with a taste for the finer things. Namely plenty of dirt on their jorts and lighthearted, fun mountain bike action in the high alpine.
Year
2021
Country
United States
Director
Elliot Wilkinson-Ray
Peter Vogt
Producer
Elliot Wilkinson-Ray
Production Company
Ripton & Co.
Has subtitles
No
Advisory
General
If You Give a Beach a Bottle
5Mins
Inspired by a picture book, Max Romey heads to a remote beach on Alaska's coastline in search of marine debris. What he finds is a different story altogether.
Year
2021
Country
United States
Director
Max Romey
Producer
Max Romey
Has subtitles
No
Advisory
General
Trailer
INSIDE- A Hole New Ski Experience
11Mins
After an amazing ski tour at the Grand Ferrand massive in France, where you can ski through stunning rock caves, a few skiers decide to take it to the next level in a huge cave in Slovenia.
Year
2021
Country
Austria
Director
Andreas Gumpenberger, Stefan Ager
Producer
Stefan Ager, Andreas Gumpenberger
Production Company
Lensecape Productions
Has subtitles
Yes
Advisory
Coarse Language
Invisible Beauty
6Mins
This is the story of Romana, who is an Austrian biologist. Insects are her passion and she takes us on a trip to discover the home of the many endemic and endangered species that live in Gesäuse National Park.
Year
2021
Country
Germany
Director
Sarah Ziegler, Milo Zanecchia
Producer
Simon Straetker
Production Company
Wild Europe
Has subtitles
No
Advisory
General
Trailer
Izembek
13Mins
Alaska's Izembek National Wildlife Refuge is a place few people have heard of but its fate is important to the protection of public lands everywhere in the United States. There has been pressure for nearly four decades to build a road through Izembek’s federally designated wilderness. It was the first place in the United States to be designated under the RAMSAR Convention as a Wetland of International Importance. Join Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Gerrit Vyn as he explores one of Alaska's great wildlife areas to document it's wildlife and wilderness, most for the first time. Before it's too late.
Year
2020
Country
United States
Director
Gerrit Vyn
Producer
Gerrit Vyn
Production Company
Conversation Media at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Has subtitles
No
Advisory
General
Jump To Zero
7Mins
Jump To Zero is the story of 3 BASE jumpers changing the paradigm of human-powered access and female empowerment in action sports. Knowing that car and plane access have adverse environmental effects, they set out to discover how much they can reduce their impact while still enjoying the places they love and practicing the sports that bring them joy.
Year
2020
Country
United States
Director
Drew Herder
Producer
Jaime Cantarovici
Adin Baird
Drew Herder
Production Company
Poptop Productions
Left Of Creek
Has subtitles
No
Advisory
General
JURRIA - The Guardians of the Pole (Tour Edit)
16Mins
'Jurria - The Guardians of the Pole' is the story of Master Paco and his passion for the pole jump and is filmed entirey on Gran Canaria, The Canary Islands. The pole was a tool which let the first Canarian settlers travel quickly through the difficult topography in search of their flocks. Today the activity is alive thanks to the teaching of Master Paco, who has shared his knowledge with the new generations.
Year
2020
Country
Spain
Director
Pedro Cubiles
Producer
Isidoro Falcón
Production Company
Nómadas Producciones
Cima Gran Canaria
Has subtitles
Yes
Advisory
General
Learning To Drown
40Mins
Jess Kimura, considered one of the most influential female snowboarders in the world was at the top of her career when she lost the love of her life in a tragic accident. Her grief led her in a direction she could have never anticipated.
Premiere
Canadian Premiere
Year
2020
Country
United States
Director
Ben Knight
Producer
Travis Rummel
Production Company
Felt Soul Media
Has subtitles
No
Advisory
Mature Subject Matter, Coarse Language
Trailer
Link Sar
17Mins
Follow an elite American alpinist navigating his relationships and motivations while attempting to climb and survive one of the world’s most challenging unclimbed peaks: Link Sar, in the high mountains of Pakistan.
Year
2021
Country
United States
Director
Graham Zimmerman
Producer
Jim Aikman
Production Company
Bedrock Film Works
Has subtitles
No
Advisory
Coarse Language
Maneuvers
4Mins
Sämi Ortlieb has quietly been producing some of the most creative segments in skiing over the past few years, taking his über-well-rounded skill set from the streets to the backcountry and everything in between. For the 2019 season he rounded up a motley crew of riders to create a segment unlike anything that’s been seen before.
Year
2019
Country
United States
Director
Sami Ortlieb
Producer
Josh Berman
Production Company
Level 1 Productions, Inc
Has subtitles
No
Advisory
General
Markus Eder's The Ultimate Run
10Mins
What if you could link every powder turn, every rail, every cliff drop, every comp run and every kicker nailed into one ultimate run? Well, Markus Eder did just that in ‘The Ultimate Run’!
Year
2021
Country
Austria
Director
Christoph Thoresen
Producer
Daniel Schiessl, Tobi Reindl
Production Company
Legs Of Steel, Red Bull Media House GmbH
Has subtitles
Yes
Advisory
General
My Midsummer Morning
19Mins
Inspired by Laurie Lee’s book “As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning”, Alastair Lee sets out on his most terrifying journey yet - walking through Spain, earning money for food by playing his violin, being distinctly unmusical.
Year
2019
Country
United Kingdom
Director
Alastair Humphreys
Producer
Alastair Humphreys
Has subtitles
No
Advisory
PG - Non-sexual nudity
The Mystery
9Mins
Within the sport of kayaking, exists whitewater--and within that, the mysterious sect of "squirtboating", which has been facing its slow demise since its heyday in the early 1990s.
Year
2020
Director
Tommy Penick
Forest Woodward
Producer
Mark Deming
Ashley Peel
Production Company
Tommy Penick Photo
Has subtitles
No
Advisory
General
Never in the Way
5Mins
Chicago-based bike messenger, Nico Deportago-Cabrera, sees city maps like a central nervous system. Everything’s connected. Roads and buses and people and cars, all carrying bits of information around a giant organism and making it live and breathe. ‘The point,’ he says, ‘is to never be in the way
Year
2020
Country
Canada
Director
Colin Jones
Producer
Darcy Wittenburg
Production Company
Anthill Films
Has subtitles
No
Advisory
General
P3
14Mins
Three friends from Canmore Alberta set out to paddle board the headwaters of the North Saskatchewan, one of Canada’s longest rivers. To get there they will have to bike, hike, ski and snowboard their way across two glaciers and 3300m mountain...all in one epic day.
Year
2021
Country
Canada
Director
Rongqin Su
Dan Whelan
Producer
Dan Whelan
Rongqin Su
Has subtitles
No
Advisory
General
Trailer
Precious Leader Woman
46Mins
Hailing from the remote village of Alert Bay, British Columbia snowboarder Spencer O’Brien dedicated her life to becoming a world champion. But, being driven to win came at a cost. Snowboarding at the elite level was taking Spencer further from her Indigenous heritage than she realized. Precious Leader Woman tells Spencer’s story from childhood to the world stage, to coming full circle to embrace her identity as she pushes forward bringing her heart and soul to her next challenge, the backcountry.
Premiere
World Premiere
Year
2021
Country
Canada
Director
Cassie De Colling
Producer
Hayley Morin, Mack Stannard
Production Company
Kiddo Films Inc
Has subtitles
No
Advisory
Coarse Language
REEL ROCK 15: Action Directe
15Mins
French powerhouse Melissa Le Nevé spends seven years battling insane moves, inner doubt, and the burden of history to climb the most revered sport route on earth.
Country
United States
Director
Zachary Barr
Josh Lowell
Producer
Zachary Barr
Josh Lowell
Production Company
REEL ROCK
Has subtitles
No
Advisory
Coarse Language
REEL ROCK 15: Deep Roots
34Mins
Lonnie Kauk’s personal journey to honor his indigenous Yosemite roots, and to connect with his legendary father by repeating his iconic climbs.
Country
United States
Director
Josh Lowell
Nick Rosen
Brett Lowell
Producer
Peter Mortimer
Production Company
REEL ROCK
Has subtitles
No
Advisory
Coarse Language
The Slabs
6Mins
Danny Macaskill tests the limits of mountain biking, riding down the infamous Dubh Slabs on the Isle of Skye.
Year
2021
Country
United Kingdom
Director
Robbie Meade
Danny MacAskill
Producer
Duncan Shaw
Production Company
Peny Limited
Has subtitles
No
Advisory
General
Swissway to Heaven (Tour Edit)
30Mins
Switzerland is a true paradise for multi-pitch climbing and is where climber Cedric Lachat was born and raised. Through his unique sense of humor and unbridled enthusiasm, we experience the beauty and awe of some of the most iconic mountain ranges and peaks.
Year
2021
Country
France
Director
Guillaume Broust
Producer
Guillaume Broust
Cédric Lachat
Has subtitles
Yes
Advisory
General
The North Face Presents: Facets
10Mins
Each of us are part of a greater whole, a community that grows stronger together especially when it’s open to all. Leanne Pelosi, Jess Kimura, Marion Haerty, Mary Rand, and Amanda Hankison show us just that. A unique look at these inspiring athletes that make up one hell of a portfolio. This one is for the next generation of riders carving their own paths.
Year
2020
Country
United States
Director
Mike Quigley
Producer
Eric Crosland, Malcolm Sangster
Production Company
Sherpas Cinema
Has subtitles
No
Advisory
Coarse Language
Trailer
Trustfall
11Mins
A world class duo of wingsuit flyers attempts to complete a routine of moves meant for an altitude of 3000m from a mountainside that is half the height. The large walls that surround them on all sides and a tiny window for success make this dangerous, uncharted territory.
Year
2021
Country
Norway
Director
Stefan Witts
Producer
Stefan Witts
Kjetil Kriken
Ingrid Spildo
Atle Remmereit
Production Company
Witts
Has subtitles
Yes
Advisory
General
Walking With Plants
23Mins
Styawat/Leigh Joseph is a S?wxw_ú7mesh Nation ethnobotanist. She grew up away from her traditional territory of Squamish, B.C. but in her search for a deeper understanding of her identity as a S?wxw_ú7mesh woman, she navigates walking between academic and cultural worlds. She contemplates her relationship with plants and their role as teachers on the very land where her ancestors have harvested them since time beyond memory and her life purpose is awakened.
Year
2020
Country
Canada
Director
Trevor Bennett
Leigh Joseph
Producer
Nichole Sorochan
Production Company
Kingtide Films
Has subtitles
No
Advisory
General
Trailer
West Highland Way: Rab Wardell's Record Attempt
21Mins
Stretching from just outside the hustle of Scotland’s largest city, Glasgow, to the iconic highland town of Fort William, the 153km West Highland Way is a world-famous, multi-day traverse loved by walkers from around the world. What is less well known, is that a hardy band of mountain bikers have been vying for record times along the way for the last 10 years.
Year
2020
Country
United Kingdom
Director
Andy Ashworth
Producer
Katie Wright
Production Company
Cut Media
Has subtitles
No
Advisory
Coarse Language