From the over 400 entries submitted into the Festival each year, award-winners and audience favorites are among the films that are carefully selected to play in theatres around the world.
Banff Centre World Tour: NIGHT II
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Saturday, May 17
7 p.m.
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Film Line-Up
SPECIAL LOCAL FEATURE
FARMING TURNS
Chris Rubens was living the dream. As a professional skier, for years he travelled the globe in search of the best skiing, until an expedition to Greenland brought the reality of climate change and his impact into sharp focus. Forced to confront his footprint and values, he takes action, risking his career as an athlete to become an organic farmer in a quest to foster a stronger, more sustainable community and connection to the mountains.
109 BELOW
A tale of resilience, grit and elite rescue volunteers going out of their way to save the lives of strangers, 109 BELOW traces how an attempted rescue on Mount Washington in 1982 changed not only the course of two climbers’ lives - but also the lives of the rescuers who attempted to save them, and the future of prosthetics, forever.
KEEP IT BURNING
The Karakorum is the wildest mountain range in the world. Edu Marín, helped by his brother Alex and father Novato, attempts the second free ascent of Eternal Flame, a route up the ‘Tower’. This achievment occurs 33 years after the first ascent of the route by Wofgang Güllich & Kurt Albert, and 13 years after Alex & Thomas Huber’s first free ascent.
RIVER MAMMA
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.
THE STREIF
Fabio Wibmer is back on snow! This time crashing the preparations for the most legendary ski race in the world: The Streif.
UNDAMMED
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.
WELCOME TO THE PIT
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. Without city permission or permits, Steve quietly went to work on the abandoned gravel mine on the outskirts of town, inadvertently creating the epicenter of snow-sliding in the Northwest Territories. Welcome to the Pit is a 15 minutes film that tells the story of Bristol Pit – and the community that it’s created – from the perspective of those who hand-built the pit and keep it running today.
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