DOG’S TALE, A

FOCUS: MOUNTAIN BIKING, DOGS

FILM SYNOPSIS: 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.

CAN’T BEAT THIS PLACE FOR FUN

FOCUS: CLASSIC DORY BOAT BUILDING

FILM SYNOPSIS: This film is a small vignette of Fretwater Boatworks, a very unique boat crafting shop that keeps the tradition of wooden dory building alive while honoring the drams of Grand Canyon pioneer Martin Litton.

PRECIOUS LEADER WOMAN

FOCUS: SNOWBOARDING. CULTURE

FILM SYNOPSIS: 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.

JUMP TO ZERO

FOCUS: BASE JUMPING

FILM SYNOPSIS: The story of three BASE jumpers changing the paradigm of human-powered access and female empowerment in action sports.  These three 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.

INSIDE – A HOLE NEW SKI EXPERIENCE

FOCUS: SKIING / SNOWBOARDING AND CAVING

FILM SYNOPSIS: 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.

REEL ROCK 15: ACTION DIRECTE

FOCUS: CLIMBING

FILM SYNOPSIS: French powerhouse Melissa Le Neve spends seven years battling insane moves, inner doubt and the burden of history to climb the most revered sport route on earth.

BREAKING TRAIL

FOCUS: WINTER HIKING

FILM SYNOPSIS: Emily Ford sets out with a borrowed sled dog named Diggins to become the first woman to thru-hike the 1180 mile 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.

FOLLOW THE LIGHT
‍Focus: Mountain biking, light
‍Film Synopsis: 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.
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FINALLY
Focus: Skiing
‍Film Synopsis: After two months of confinement, Ben Buratti, the prodigy of French freesking, needed to feel what he was capable of 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?
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BEAR-LIKE (DER BÄR IN MIR) (TOUR EDIT)
Focus: Environment
‍Film Synopsis: 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.
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IF YOU GIVE A BEACH A BOTTLE
Focus: Environment
‍Film Synopsis: 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.
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DREAM MOUNTAIN
Focus: Mountaineering
‍Film Synopsis: When is it right to follow your dreams? Let's take the lead of international mountain guide Pasang Lhamu Sherpa Akita as she questions, then follows her intuition on the most important expedition of all – her own life. Pasang, an accomplished mountaineer, humanitarian and now mother, has won numerous prestigious awards, including National Geographic's People's Choice Adventurer of the Year in 2016. In "Dream Mountain," Pasang reflects on her personal highs and lows and rediscovers for herself just how much the mountains have meant to her. The film offers insights into her struggle to balance mountaineering with motherhood, and the pressures of respecting her traditional culture while pushing boundaries as an elite female athlete. Returning to her mountain-home and life-long passion to face Cholatse, a sheer 21,130ft/6,440m peak in the heart of the Everest region, Pasang leads by inspiration, proclaiming, “Everyone has a right to follow their dreams.”
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EM
Focus: Climbing
‍Film Synopsis: 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.
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MY MIDSUMMER MORNING
Focus: Walking

Advisory: Non-sexual nudity
‍Film Synopsis: In 1935 a young Englishman named Laurie Lee arrived in Spain. He had never been overseas; had hardly even left the quiet village he grew up in. His idea was to walk through the country, earning money for food by playing his violin in bars and plazas. Nearly a century later, the book Laurie Lee wrote – As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning – inspired Alastair Humphreys. It made him fall in love with Spain – the landscapes and the spirit – and with Laurie's style of travel. He travelled slow, lived simply, slept on hilltops, relished spontaneity, and loved conversations with the different people he met along the hot and dusty road. For 15 years, Alastair dreamed of retracing Laurie Lee’s footsteps, but could never get past the hurdle of being distinctly unmusical. This year, he decided to go anyway. The journey was his most terrifying yet, risking failure and humiliation every day.
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NEVER IN THE WAY
‍Focus: Biking
‍Film Synopsis: 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.
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ALWAYS HIGHER
Focus: High diving
‍Film Synopsis: 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? Or will she try to make the challenge even more difficult? Watch as she continuously tries to push the limit further and explores her reasons why.
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A FOREIGN NATIVE (TOUR EDIT)
Focus: Culture, skiing
Film Synopsis: 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.
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MARKUS EDER'S THE ULTIMATE RUN
‍Focus: Skiing
‍Film Synopsis: 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’!

IZEMBEK
Focus: Environment
‍Film Synopsis: There has been pressure for nearly four decades to build a road
through Alaska's Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Gerrit
Vyn explores the area to document its wildlife and wilderness, before it's too late.
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REEL ROCK 15: DEEP ROOTS
‍Focus: Climbing

Advisory: Coarse language
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