The Banff Mountain Film Festival (BMFF) is hitting 55 screenings across 28 locations this May, its biggest tour yet! Festival Director Jemima Robinson gave us the lowdown.

 

BMFF’s World Tour curates the best films from the Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival, held in Alberta, Canada. It’s a favourite for outdoor fiends thanks to its blend of inspiring and adrenaline-inducing feature films, with a focus on human achievement and damn good storytelling. Check out the trailer above to get a taste – seeing is believing.

This Year’s Lineup

Australian Festival Director, Jemima Robinson, called this tour the ‘most ambitious Australian program yet’. That’s partly due to the record number of screenings (all of which can be found on our Event Calendar) but also in the focus.

‘It’s not all extreme sports’, says Jemima, ‘there’s something for even the armchair adventurer in this year’s program’.

I guess that depends on your tolerance though. There’s mountain biking through the Dolomites in Italy, an ultramarathon runner’s journey to her absolute limit, snowboarding on Antarctic icebergs, and a climbing survival story. The three-minute trailer shows heaps more too: whales, waterfalls, whitewater, whippers, whatever your poison it’s sure to be a wild and heartwarming ride.

There’s even an Aussie filmmaker behind one of the films: Wolf of Wingsuit. Filmed in the ethereal Swiss Alps village of Lauterbrunnen after a chance encounter, the film blends cinematic shots with 360-degree perspectives that put you right in the…flyer’s seat.

We’ll see you there!

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Feature image by Christoph Thoresen

Film stills in gallery courtesy of Banff Mountain Film Festival

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