Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival

From the film Exit the North Pole

World Journeys - Mixed Films + | Virtual

Find your flow in the mountains of Turkey, experience Indigenous wisdom in Squamish, comb the shores of the Alaskan coastline, dance with harpy eagles in the Da

From the film Out the Back Door, photo by Dwayne Wohlgemuth

Out the Back Door - Mixed Films + | Virtual

Leave your passport at home because sometimes the best journeys are those taken right out the back door. Alpine SUP adventures, esker hunting and wolverine chas

From the film Blueprint, Photo by Jarrett Lindal

Finding Flow - Mixed Films + | Virtual

What happens when you put your foot on the first hold and press upward or when your shovel pierces the earth as you lay down a new trail? With each step your bo

From the film Never in the Way, photo by Sterling Lorence

Send It! - Mixed Films | Virtual

Back flips, catching some good air, skiing pow and running class V rapids are all at play. Just be sure you make it home to tell the tale. Pick your toy and sen

From the film Always Higher, photo by Mathieu Tranchida

Reaching New Heights - Mixed Films | Virtual

Meet a Quebec high diver eager to fulfill a crazy dream, learn how to live life like a river if you’re a climber/artist and experience the journey of a team of

From the film DURGA Forging a New Trail, photo by Kopal Goyal

Live Your Dream - Mixed Films | Virtual

The time is now! Your bucket list awaits and life is short. Whether you’re on the bike trail, high in the Himalaya, going for a new record or remembering all th

From the film The River Runner

The River Runner - Feature Film | Virtual

The River Runner follows legendary expedition kayaker Scott Lindgren’s 20-year quest to be the first person to paddle the four great rivers that originate from

From the film Sidik and the Panther

Sidik and the Panther - Feature Film | Virtual

For 25 long years, Sidik has been searching for a snow leopard in the war-scarred mountains of Kurdistan in Northern Iraq. Once there were many leopards here an

From the film Everest - The Hard Way

Everest - The Hard Way - Feature Film | Virtual

In 1988, four Slovak climbers wondered if it was possible to climb the hardest route on Mount Everest in Alpine style. Chris Bonington had nicknamed the route '

From the film Overland, photo by Anamaria Draghici and Paolo Marchegiani

Overland - Feature Film | Virtual

Adventure unfolds across four continents as an eagle hunter, a hawk whisperer, and a falcon racer awaken an ancient art to connect to the wild that is fading ou

Photo of Victor Saunders, photo by Seth Timpano

The Second Summit & Victor Saunders - Feature Film | Virtual

Veteran British mountaineers Mick Fowler and Victor Saunders reunite to tackle an unclimbed Himalayan summit, having overcome cancer, ageing bodies and a thirty

From the film Borealis

Borealis - Feature Film | Virtual

Borealis is a unique cinematic documentary that goes deep into Canada’s iconic snow forest to understand how black spruce and birch experience life, talk to eac

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