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THE 2026

Official Selection

As the festival selection grows films will appear here. You can choose how you want to enjoy your adventure: the household or community pass.

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Winter Kooks

Alberta’s first-ever river surfing film, diving into the lives of two land locked surfers battling winter depression through the raw intensity of cold-water surfing.

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Fjallferð

Follow one week of réttir - the annual Icelandic sheep round-up - through the eyes of the families who still drive their flocks down from the highlands every autumn.

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The Sound of Japan

An audio-visual exploration of place, memory and creativity, captured in the mountains and cities of Japan.

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Catharsis

The film traces the emotional cleansing and inner balance that skiing—especially freeriding—offers two young riders.

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Embers

On July 24, 2024, a wildfire tore through Jasper, Alberta, reducing aerialist Sasha Galitzki's home to ashes - here she rebuilds her life and confronts the realities of a warming world.

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Masa: 居場所 (The Place Where I Am)

In Masa: 居場所 (The Place Where I A,m) we root ourselves in exploring the concepts of home and belonging – and what those mean to Masa Sakano.

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La Rubia

32-year-old Canadian climber Bronwyn Hodgins faces a burnout from Big Wall expeditions and decides to shift her focus to sport climbing.

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Generation Shegeng

Generation Shegeng follows the climbers and visionaries searching for the next frontier-Shegeng Cave, a massive limestone arch hidden in the Guangxi mountains.

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King of Chaos: Justinas Leveika

By day, Justinas Leveika manages a nursing home. In his spare time, he’s attempting a brutal cycling endurance challenge.

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Parallel World

After his daughter's birth a tectonic shift in priorities casts an alpinist into the safer realm of high grade Dry Tooling.

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The Hive Architect

For the last 14 years Matt Somerville has spent the winters creating his log hives before driving around all of England in the summer, erecting them as non-intervention habitats for wild honey bees.

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Fossils and Rocks

Fossils and Rocks explores how indoor climbing has evolved since the first indoor climbing centre in the United Kingdom, Mile End Climbing Wall, was established in 1986.

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The Marks We Leave

A short documentary that follows Bozeman-based artist Hailey Hosken as she creates a painting inspired by her experience climbing in the Gallatin Canyon.

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For The Love

Follows climbers Hayden Jamieson, Jacob Cook, and Will Sharp as they return to Chile’s remote Cochamó Valley to attempt the first free ascent of Picaflor.

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The Oldest Munro Bagger

Filmed over four years, 80 year-old Nick Gardner attempts to complete all 282 of Scotland's Munros in the wake of his beloved wife's dementia diagnosis.

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Parallel Lines

Erika, Georgia, and Ryan trade skills, skiing, running, and climbing - learning from one another as the increasingly fickle Scottish winter forces them to adapt.

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Queen of the Catskills

After a series of traumatic events, a high school English teacher in the South Bronx begins retreating to the mountains looking to heal.

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BILLY

The fears that a 70-year-old grandfather goes through when ski touring - death, desire and time constitute the internal conflict of this adventure, which may be the last.

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Peripheral

Peripheral follows Lucy as she navigates a pivotal stage in her life, balancing the gradual loss of her sight with her love for the outdoors.

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The Transcontinental Race No11

One of the world’s toughest bike races - 4,600km across Europe - this year, 83 women lined up in Santiago de Compostela — more than twice the total seen across the race’s entire ten-year history.

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Fellsman

A portrait of young fell runner Sonny Ashton-Fitch filmed during the spring season as he trains for the annual Three Peaks Fell Race.

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Guardian

Balancing fatherhood, a demanding career, and elite ambitions, Matt Foot is on a relentless quest to become one of the UK’s top dry-toolers.

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New Terrain

A snowboarder and an aspiring mountain guide pursue their dreams in Norway, until tragedy forces them to face risk, trust, and the cost of adventure together.

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80 for 80

Niklaus Kuhn—a Swiss adventurer with his sights set on hiking Highland Bowl 80 times in one season, all leading up to his 80th birthday.

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Into Altai

This film takes us deep into the Tavan Bogd massif, nestled in the Mongolian Altai Mountains.

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Mountain Roots: The Journey Home

A 9-year-old climber travels from Wyoming to the Italian Alps with her grandfather to scale a mountain together, embarking on a journey to reconnect their family after more than a century of separation.

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One Inch From Flying

A young climber grapples with the complexity of modern life, and celebrates the sense of balance he gets from walking a highline in Washington's North Cascades.

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Shared Joy

A heart-warming documentary that marks the start of a father and son journey as a seasoned pilot introduces his eager 10 year old boy to the freedom and wonder of flight.

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Girl Climber

Professional climber Emily Harrington has summited Everest, 8000-meter peaks, and dominated the competition circuit but, her greatest challenge extends beyond the physical.

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SLIDING

A female athlete skips the crowded ski slopes to traverse the Swiss Alps on her sled... headfirst.

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Whispers

This ski film highlights the whispers of winter during the off season and what aspects of skiing sneak into the unconscious.

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Brothers of the Sea

Bernardo and Diego lived a surfer’s dream, yet also faced immense hardship, raising themselves after being abandoned young.

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Dyfi Groms

The joys, challenges and aspirations of a group of young mountain bike riders from the Dyfi Valley in Mid-Wales.

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En Plein Air

Two decades after the expedition that launched his art career, Indigenous artist Alfred Villeneuve returns by canoe to paint on his ancestral land.

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For What We Have To Do

Made as part of a UKRI-funded research project, the UK Treescapes Programme, exploring how riparian woodlands can support climate resilience and ecological recovery.

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Project Freeride

We follow Luke through a year learning how to snowboard, and how to heal from grief through his relationships to the outdoors, to winter, and to his partner and new baby prior to her arrival.

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The Tunnel

Each year, a few dozen athletes gather to run 200 miles inside the UK's longest foot tunnel, for the ultimate test of endurance and sensory deprivation.

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Monster Miles

Two brothers go off on their first bikepacking adventure in search of the Loch Ness Monster.

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Skate Like a Lass

Female established inclusive grassroots Skateboarding communities based in the UK North - from mountains in the Lake District to Blackpool promenade.

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Thrive

In the heart of the most beautiful landscapes the UK has to offer, a growing community of men walk, meditate, and physically challenge themselves together.

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The Edge of Existence

The incredible and emotional story of Cam Cameron, electronics teacher, devoted father and husband, as he attempts to survive 60 days on Rockall, the UK’s most remote and dangerous island.

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green

In the quiet rhythm of gardening, Bee explores how time in nature helps them reflect, connect, and nurture what matters most.

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Swim Sistas

Swim Sistas is a poetic, visually stunning love letter to water, sisterhood, and the enduring strength of Black women across generations.

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The Mermaid Wife - The Apex Singers

A music video for an original A Cappella song by The Apex Singers - beneath the serene hills of the Shetland Islands, mermaids dwell in underwater palaces made of coral and pearl.

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Now I Feel Alive

Kathleen Wotton's journey from being bed-bound, depressed and morbidly obese, to finding the spirit of life once again in creativity and nature.

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Big Walls & Bedtime Stories

From homeschooling at 2000ft to portaledge snow ball fights - Jackson and Freya scale the Muir Wall on El Capitan, supported by Mum, Jess and Dad, Leo Houlding.

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Just Tryna Run

Trail runner Lawrence Stokes shares his experience of being a Black athlete navigating the white-dominated world of the Swiss Alps.

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Hughsey's Tri-Nation Triathlon

Two years after a dramatic Air Ambulance rescue, everyday adventurer Claire Hughes set out to hike, packraft and cycle through Wales, England and Scotland.

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My Grandfather Was A Mountain Climber

A conversation between Tabitha Ellis and her Grandfather John Emery who died in 1963, when her mother was one.

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The Birdwatchers

What does it mean to be a birdwatcher? Four women challenge the stereotype and share their love, passion, and fears in the world of birding.

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Find Mòr: Canyoning in Scotland

Find Mòr follows a group of canyoneers over the span of two years as they embark on a journey of exploration into the hidden corners of the Scottish Highlands.

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The Mountains Within

John Kelly attempts a record Appalachian Trail FKT attempt in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.

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Where The Wild Things Are

Ultrarunner Tom Hollins embarks on a relentless, self-supported winter attempt to set a new record across the 214 Wainwright peaks in the Lake District.

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Tha Sinn an Seo

Featuring young people at work and play in the landscapes of the Cairngorms, this is a poetic statement of presence, action and joy as young people participate in habitat restoration work.

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Anti Pollution Pirates

Anti Pollution Pirates follows a small crew who hike into a remote Highland beach to clear some of the huge volume of waste washed ashore.

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Whaser

A lively pair of conservation engineers team up with Whale Wise to tackle the pressing challenge of measuring humpback whales to assess the impacts of fishing gear entanglement.

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Lamo Auru - Old Forest, New Lines.

On Papua New Guinea’s remote island province of New Britain, british climbers Waldo Etherington, Leo Houlding and Tom Winterton travel into the mysterious depths of the Lamo Auru Caldera.

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RE-Built

A spotlight on the adaptive mountain bike community, documenting the ways riders and trail builders are pushing boundaries, expanding access, and redefining what progression looks like.

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The Lost Boys Of Carbis Bay

A daring band of unlikely explorers embark on a quest to uncover the forgotten mines of Cornwall, only to unearth an unexpected journey of self-discovery.

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Hiraeth Yn Y Môr

This film follows the Hiraeth Yn Y Môr project in North-East Wales, growing ocean literacy across local communities and boosting community health and wellbeing.

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Entropy

On the vast Greenlandic ice sheet climate change is threatening the close and sacred connection between the land moulded by ice and the Inuit who live there.

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Notes From Above The Clouds

Adham used to sell software in a suit and tie. Now he spends his summers looking after more than a thousand sheep at the top of Europe's highest mountain ranges.

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Red-Shaded Green

When green energy comes at the expense of Sámi traditional life and culture, this poetic film questions the sustainability of combating climate change by replacing one form of destruction with another.

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Mollo - The Art Of Holding On

Michelle pursues a mountain dream born during psychiatric hospitalisation - with humour and honesty, she explores ambition, mental health, and the thin line between healing and harm.

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