With around 130 films to watch online it's no wonder that our Community Hosts can get overwhelmed when they try to find 90-120 minutes worth of film for their particular event!

We hope this LMFF Preview will help you to navigate our 2025 Film Selection and perhaps provide shortcuts to your ideal film programme.

And if you are joining us to watch these films from home between February 28th and March 16th, we hope these curations will be helpful to you also.

Whether you are following our curations or finding your own way through the 2025 Film Selection - at home or for your Community Event - we hope you enjoy watching as much as we do!

For more ideas (or to come along!) visit our own in-person screenings in London Covent Garden, London Hammersmith and Keswick, Cumbria.

Swim, surf and dive... Getting wet is always an adventure, and there is nothing quite like it in terms of nature connection, especially out of a wetsuit. Here's a curation that would suit any water-based club or any community lucky enough to have the ocean on its doorstep. Take a deep breath...

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Deserts, fells and trails... Running is probably the most popular sport in the world, but there is running and there is running. This curation celebrates that universality, but also shares so many stories that circulate around it - climate, inclusion, mental health... Lace up.

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Mountaineering, hillwalking, or just being in them.. This collection of films take you to where the earth touches the sky, where dreams are made and made true, and where metaphysical moments happen. From the Munros to the Himalayas this is the core of our festival. Great views too.

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Mountain, bikepacking and a little road.. These are stories of people pushing their limits on bikes, and pushing the limits of their bikes, and pushing those limits in places where bikes shouldn't really be asked to go.. But who are we to judge? Alleycat Race anyone?

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We have a lot of choice for climbers this year... So make sure you have a good browse of our collection. Here we have picked a shorts line-up that we think shows the breadth of the sport now - both geographically and in terms of style - and philosophical approach. Enjoy!

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Go back in time to where it all began.. Trailblazers, pioneers, call them what you want. Every adventure is hardest the first time it is done, and the further back you go the less technology, gear and information you have to work with. They don't make them like that anymore - or do they?

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Get deep in the white stuff. From the roots of snowboarding in the US to holding it together for your modern family in the Alps, this session illustrates the deep connection that can be found in the snow and ice. On film, snow sports are arguably the most aesthetic of adventure activities.

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Facing challenges on a whole other level. Prepare to be inspired by these adventurers for whom physical challenge is a fact of everyday life. Adventure is about resilience and overcoming barriers, and these stories celebrate what is possible when our own body is a barrier. Inspiring.

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Being in nature has always inspired artists. This collection of films seeks to understand that, and in the process takes us into stunning environments where creative energy is driving new interpretations of adventure. Plus a couple of experimental films for good measure...

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Getting away from it all - sometimes it's a there and back and for some it's just there.

This escapist collection takes us to deserts, into the mountains, across boggy landscapes and even way out west, to either meet the people who live here, or to find something of ourselves.

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You have to see it to love it, and when you love it you want to save it. The world of adventure knows its responsibility to do everything it can to minimise impact and drive awareness of environmental issues. In this curation we learn of bad things happening and good being done.

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It's not just about us. This collection celebrates other life forms, plant and animal, with whom we share the great outdoors. How they shape us, what they mean to us, how we look after them and how they look after us. From gorillas in Africa to plant life on the banks of the Thames.

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And finally... that human impulse that started it all. Here's three thought-provoking travel films which we think together form a beautiful tryptych of films which will inspire you to cancel that Butlins booking and get yourself a seat on a boat to somewhere less travelled. Some stunning photography.

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