Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour, RIT

(USA, 2025, 6 min)
Director: Alexi Godbout
Producers: Blank Collective Films, Alexi Godbout
Advisory: Coarse language

Cold Calls is a ski film pieced together through conversations, memories, and whatever the season decided to offer!

(UK, 2025, 12 min)
Director: Max Weston
Producers: Fera, Sidney Hiscox
Advisory: Coarse language

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.

(USA, 2025, 47 min)
Directors: Ben Knight, Berne Broudy
Producers: Richmond Mountain Trails, Berne Broudy
Advisory: Coarse language

*2025 Best Film: Mountain Sports
2025 Audience Choice Award

Best Day Ever follows the stories of adaptive mountain bikers Greg Durso and Allie Bianchi as they navigate the relentless challenges of their disabilities with humour and attitude. Along the way, they embrace the tremendous support, friendship, and joy they find in their rural Vermont riding community.

(Canada, 2025, 2 min)
Director: Scott Secco
Producers: Scott Secco, Chris King
Advisory: No advisory

Georgia Astle, Casey Brown, Carson Storch, and Tom van Steenbergen battle the elements.

(France, 2025, 34 min)
Director: Rama Dio Syahputra
Producer: Rama Dio Syahputra
Advisory: No advisory

Two unexpected names are emerging on the stage of the climbing World Championships: Ravianto and Raviandi Ramadhan, twin brothers from Indonesia. With nothing but their own resources, Dissidence retraces their extraordinary journey, from the training walls of Jakarta to a climbing route in Savoie, France.

(Canada, 2025, 26 min)
Directors: Rush Sturges, Skip Armstrong
Producers: River Roots, Rush Sturges, Sarah McNair-Landry, Erik Boomer
Advisory: Coarse language; Nudity

Join adventurers Erik and Sarah on yet another outrageous Baffin Vacation as they kiteski north along the remote coastline of Baffin. Over their 69-day holiday, they ski mountains, climb an epic big wall, and cross a glacier in search of new rivers to whitewater kayak.

(France, 2025, 6 min)
Directors: Kilian Bron, Pierre Henni, Valentin Birant
Producers: Kilian Bron, Valentin Birant Films
Advisory: No advisory

Kilian Bron and his team journey from Kathmandu to Nepal’s remote Dolpo region, navigating dizzying ridgelines and timeless villages. Blending adventure, reflection, and human connection, their ride explores isolation, cultural encounter, and the meaning of responsible travel—capturing the raw essence of exploration in one of the world’s most secluded valleys.

(France, 2025, 8 min)
Director: Ambroise Trauet
Producer: Ambroise Trauet
Advisory: No advisory

There is something that has always excited Ambroise in Downhill Skateboarding: it’s those moments you experience two or three times in a season or even in your life. He has only experienced this a few times in his life while skating, so he decided to skate the most challenging road in Europe to immerse himself in this mental state — the flow state.

(Canada, 2025, 49 min)
Director:Philip Forsey
Producers: Sherpas Cinema, Malcolm Sangster, Joshua Lavigne, Gabriella Dufour-Léonard
Advisory: Coarse language

Two world-class ski mountaineers, Christina Lustenberger and Guillaume Pierrel, attempt a daring first descent of Mount Robson’s South Face, retracing the footsteps of alpine pioneers and the weight of a legacy that has challenged generations.

(Germany, 2025, 23 min)
Director: Holger Wimmer
Producers: schau ma mal, Holger Wimmer
Advisory: Coarse language

Jakob and Konne, two adventurous fathers bring their two year old sons, on a six-day mountain bike tour through the Swiss Alps. From rumbling
stomachs and croissant crises to unavoidable tantrums – what begins as an ideal plan quickly turns into a test of patience for all four.

(USA, 2025, 9 min)
Director: Josh Goldsmith
Producers: Uhuru Mountain Collective, Big Giant, Ben Nordal, Josh Folan
Advisory: Coarse language

There’s a tense moment before every grand performance where apprehension turns to belief, and preparation meets presentation. We follow the interwoven journey of a skier and a rapper as they individually navigate this moment on stages of their own choosing.

(USA, 2025, 45 min)
Director: Dawn Kish
Producers: Dawn Kish Photo and Film LLC, Dawn Kish, John Sherman
Advisory: Coarse language; Mature subject matter

*2025 Best Film: Climbing
The best climbing, comedy, comeback ever made, with a conservation plight. It will make you laugh and cry and maybe pee yer pants.

(Switzerland, 2024, 15 min)
Director: Keenan DesPlanques
Producer: Keenan DesPlanques
Advisory: No advisory

From the highs to lows, Nicholi Rogatkin has changed the sport of slopestyle mountain biking with countless world-first tricks. Through a 20- year career of pushing the sport, he has been a positive inspiration for his community.

(Australia, 2025, 2 min)
Director: Matt Raimondo
Producer: Matt Raimondo
Advisory: Coarse language

Callan Blanchknox reflects on the deeper meaning of climbing—beyond strength, it’s about movement, connection, and the sense of fight it brings—all while tackling the first ascent of an epic upside-down cave traverse.

(USA, 2025, 47 min)
Directors: Julia Marie Campanelli, Drew Darby
Producers: Singletrack LLC, Finn Alexander Melanson, Robert Fisher
Advisory: No advisory

The Finisher follows ultrarunner Jasmin Paris as she takes on the notorious Barkley Marathons, attempting to become the first woman to ever complete the race in its 38-year history. Through past failures and relentless perseverance, Paris pushes the limits of endurance and possibility.

(USA, 2025, 9 min)
Directors: Sara Beam Robbins, Grant Robbins
Producers: The Road West Traveled, Sara Beam Robbins, Grant Robbins
Advisory: Coarse language

Professional backcountry skier Sierra Schlag has built a career around focus, grit, and always chasing the next big line. She takes her job, and her skiing, seriously. But when Waverly Chin—aka Waves—her funky, free-spirited best friend shows up with snacks and silliness, it’s reminder not to take life (or skiing) too seriously.

(USA, 2025, 15 min)
Director: Danny Schmidt
Producers: Pure Gold Pictures, Danny Schmidt, George McKenzie Jr, Clay Barron
Advisory: Coarse language

From Brooklyn’s concrete jungle to the heart of the Everglades, meet George McKenzie Jr., a Black photographer transforming his lens into a beacon of change. Swapping the weight of a gun for the promise of a camera, George found his calling amid nature’s raw grandeur, capturing everything from city pigeons and rats to elusive panthers.

(USA, 2024, 29 min)
Directors: Colin Arisman, Zeppelin Zeerip
Producers: Field Work Creative, Wild Confluence, Zeppelin Zeerip, Colin Arisman
Advisory: Coarse language

Traveling by packraft and foot through Alaska’s mighty Brooks Range, Roman Dial and his team have a goal of finding the source of a mysterious phenomenon poisoning watersheds in the Arctic. Along the journey, Roman reckons with fatherhood, personal tragedy, and the power of wilderness to both break us and bring us fully alive.