Cold Calls isn’t your typical ski flick. It’s built from conversations, memories, and whatever the season decided to throw at the crew — which, spoiler alert, wasn’t always ideal.
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Rogatkin is an intimate and electrifying portrait of one of mountain biking’s most fearless innovators — Nicholi Rogatkin — told through the lens of filmmaker Keenan DesPlanques.
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Arctic Alchemy: Travelling by packraft and on foot through Alaska’s remote Brooks Range, scientist and adventurer Roman Dial and his team set out to investigate a mysterious phenomenon poisoning Arctic watersheds. What unfolds is part expedition, part investigation — and part deeply personal reckoning with wilderness, loss and what it means to keep going.
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Riders on the Storm, screening across Australia this May as part of the 2026 Banff Mountain Film Festival Tour, documents their attempt at the impossible—with all the suffering, setbacks, and surprising moments of brilliance that come with trying to make history on Patagonian granite.
When your idea of a romantic getaway involves glaciers, portaledges and 69 days off the grid. Most people book a holiday to switch off. Sarah McNair-Landry and Erik “Boomer” Boomer headed to Baffin Island to paddle wild rivers, climb big walls, ski glaciers and sleep dangling from cliffs — all while filming it themselves. Because
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Before chalk dust hangs in the air. Before the skis drop in. Before a single summit fills the frame. There’s a moment — and a sound — that tells you you’re at the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival. That sound isn’t accidental. And it isn’t anonymous. A theme by design In the late 1990s, as
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Paul Zizka’s photo of Banff National Park is the Signature Image of 50th Annual Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival and World Tour. The Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival signature image showcases some of the best mountain adventure photography from around the world. For our 50th anniversary in 2025, we selected Paul
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When Melbourne based filmmaker, Mateo Arango Guerrero heard his name announced as the winner of the inaugural Banff Pitch, he froze. For two years he had poured himself into a project that seemed, at times, destined to live only on his hard drive—surviving countless grant rejections and stalled applications. In disbelief, he assumed the final
From a basement brainstorming session among restless climbers to one of the world’s most prestigious adventure film festivals, the Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival has spent five decades inspiring audiences to push boundaries, embrace the wild, and celebrate the stories that emerge from our planet’s most breathtaking landscapes. A Mountain of Memories: The
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Alright folks, as you may have heard, the annual Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival has just wrapped up in Banff, Canada — and we’ve got some seriously exciting news to share. An Australian filmmaker has taken out the Grand Prize for overall best film! How good is that? We are absolutely stoked and super proud
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