Banff Mountain Film Festival

The Banff Mountain Film Festival is one of the largest and most prestigious mountain festivals in the world. The "mothership" festival has been held at the start of November each year since 1975 in Banff, Canada. The festival draws some of the world's best film makers and accomplished outdoor heroes to celebrate adventure, the environment, mountain culture and the outdoors through film.

Hot on the heels of the festival each year, the best films head off on the Banff Mountain Festival World Tour with stops in around 285 communities and 30 countries across the globe. The Banff films toured across the UK for the first time in 2010 and returned in 2011 visiting even more cities across England, Scotland and Wales.

Through the big screen you see highlights of incredible adventure sports, visit remote cultures and some of the world's last great wild places. We would love to see you at your local festival screening.

Films showing include:

Crossing The Ice
Two Australian set off across the ice to be the first adventurers to tackle the perilous journey across Antarctica to the South Pole and back again, completely unassisted.

Reel Rock: Honnold 3.0
Alex Honnold has become known as the boldest solo climber of his generation. In this dangerous game, how does he balance pure ambition and self-preservation?

Roller Man
Designer Jean-Yves Blondeau combines creativity with his love of speed and adrenaline to invent a new sport known as 'Buggy Rollin'. Covered in a futuristic suit lined with wheels, 'Rollerman' reaches speeds of over 100 km per hour, overtaking cars and motorbikes.

Lily Shreds Trailside
It's not too often that mountain bike films feature animals. However Lily, a Jack Russell Terrier, is the star of this film, carving out some new lines in Utah America and proving that downhill mountain bike trails need not be just enjoyed by human riders.

Gimp Monkeys
What has four legs, five arms, and three heads? The Gimp Monkeys! Three climbers are linked by their missing limbs, but it is their shared passion for climbing that pushes them towards an improbable goal - to achieve the first all-disabled ascent of Yosemite National Park's iconic El Capitan.

Reel Rock: Wideboyz
American "off-width" crack climbing has spawned a counter-culture of rough and tumble characters who aren't afraid to bleed their way up a route. Two proper British lads, Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker, crossed the Atlantic to test themselves on some of the gnarliest wide cracks in the US, including the first ascent of the world's hardest off-width known as Century Crack.

See official website for full schedule.