CAPITOL CENTRE: Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour 2025

Tickets:

• REGULAR (per evening)^$25^.00
• MEMBER (per evening)^$20^.00

The Capitol Centre presents the Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival, one of the largest and most prestigious mountain festivals in the world!

Hot on the heels of the Festival that is held every fall in beautiful Banff, Alberta, the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour hits the road. With stops planned in over 600 communities and more than 40 countries across the globe, the Banff World Tour celebrates amazing achievements in outdoor storytelling and filmmaking worldwide! From the over 400 entries submitted into the Festival each year, award-winners and audience favorites are among the films that are carefully selected to play in theatres around the world. Traveling to remote vistas, analyzing topical environmental issues, and bringing audiences up-close and personal with adrenaline-packed action sports the 2024/25 World Tour is an exhilarating and provocative exploration of the
mountain world.

Join the Capitol Centre in the Betty Speers Theatre as the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour brings the spirit of outdoor adventure to North Bay on Thursday, Jan. 30 at 7pm, and Friday, Jan. 31 at 7pm. Each night will screen different films- see the lineups for each evening below.

Presenting partners:Banff & Lake Louise Tourism, Rab
Sponsored by: BUFF®, Oboz, YETI, Kicking Horse Coffee, World Expeditions, The Lake Louise Ski Resort & Summer Gondola

Thursday, Jan. 30 starting at 7:00pm- Quartzite Program

Anytime - Switzerland (Tour Edit)
(2024, Canada, 04:39 min)
Director: Darcy Wittenburg, Colin Jones, Darren McCullough
Producer: Darcy Wittenburg, Ian Dunn, Galen Knowles
Production Company: Anthill Films, Red Bull Media House
Advisory: No Advisory
Film Synopsis: Set in the Lenzerheide Bike Park this segment will highlight the fact that good times are at the core of it all. Witness the ultimate display of skill and progression as they unleash a frenzy of multi-rider sessions, intertwining lines, and mind-blowing tricks. Leave your preconceptions behind and join the revolution, as these women prove they're not just riding – they're reigning.

Jamrock: The birth of Jamaican rock climbing
(2024, USA, 16:50 min)
Director: Gareth Leah
Producer: Gareth Leah
Production Company: Well Good Productions
Advisory: No Advisory
Film Synopsis: Kai Lightner, a 12-time national US climbing champion and the visionary founder of "Climb for Change" embarks on a transformative mission into the heart of Jamaica's emerging climbing community, where passion and determination thrive despite limited resources and recognition.

Of A Lifetime
(2024, Switzerland, 44:00 min)
Director: Jérôme Tanon
Producer: Xavier de Le Rue, Beanie de Le Rue
Production Company: Sarl XDLR Suisse
Advisory: Coarse language
Film Synopsis: Of a Lifetime is a celebration of discovery, adventure, and the passing of the torch to the next generation against the breathtaking backdrop of Antarctica. It chronicles the renowned De Le Rue family's journey as Xavier, Victor, and 18-year-old Mila sail across the Drake Passage to ride the unimaginably steep icy lines of the white continent.

The Smoke that Thunders
2024 Banff Mountain Film Competition: ***CREATIVE EXCELLENCE AWARD***
(2024, Canada, 04:11 min)
Director: Caleb Roberts
Producer: Caleb Roberts
Production Company: N/A
Advisory: No advisory
Film Synopsis: Aiming to paddle the fabled Minus rapids at the base of Victoria Falls on the Zambezi river, Ben Marr’s biggest challenge is to access them by trekking upstream. A total assault on the senses awaits as the force of the river speaks for itself.

The Last Observers
2024 Banff Mountain Film Competition: ***SPECIAL JURY MENTION***
(2024, USA, 24:00 min)
Director: Maja K Mikkelsen
Producer: Adam Mikkelsen
Production Company: Patagonia Films
Advisory: No advisory
Film Synopsis: For decades, every third hour around the clock, every day of the year, Karin Persson and Lennart Karlsson have gone outside to observe and record the weather. At one of the last manual weather stations on the planet, there are no days off.

Reel Rock: Jirishanca
(2024, USA, 31:45 min)
Director: Peter Mortimer, Josh Lowell
Producer: Zachary Barr, Halle Johns
Exec Producer: Alex Lowther, Monika McClure, Justin Roth
Production Company: Sender Films, Patagonia Films
Advisory: Coarse & sexual language
Film Synopsis: Renowned alpinists Josh Wharton and Vince Anderson attempt a free ascent of the Jirishanca, an epic 6000-metre peak in the Peruvian Andes. The duo will have to tackle 5.13 face climbing, horizontal ice roofs, technical mixed terrain, and treacherous snow mushrooms as they reconcile the inherent risk of climbing with their love of alpine adventure.

Sliding
(2024, United States Virgin Islands, 03:56 min)
Director: Katie Tannenbaum, Matiss Spaile
Producer: Katie Tannenbaum, Juris Kudeiko
Production Company: N/A
Advisory: No advisory
Film Synopsis: A female athlete skips the crowded ski slopes to traverse the Swiss Alps on her sled... headfirst.

Friday, Jan 31 starting at 7:00pm- Sandstone Program

The Streif
(2024, Austria, 03:21 min)
Director: Fabio Wibmer, Christoph Thoresen
Producer: Tobi Reindl, Thomas Wernhart
Production Company: Legs of Steel in cooperation with Sick Cinema
Advisory: No advisory
Film Synopsis: Fabio Wibmer is back on Snow. This time crashing the preparations for the most legendary ski race in the world - the Streif.

River Mamma
(2023, USA, 10:30 min)
Director: Sarah Hamilton
Producer: Sarah Hamilton Film, Ryan Weigman
Production Company: N/A
Advisory: Coarse language
Film Synopsis: River Mamma follows Elisha McArthur, a lifelong raft guide and single mom and her relationship with her teenage goth daughter, Charlotte, who has no interest in rivers at all.

109 Below
2024 Banff Mountain Film Competition: ***BEST FILM: MOUNTAIN SPORTS***
(2023, USA, 13:49 min)
Director: Nick Martini
Producer: Sarah Stewart, Ben Osborne, Lex Hinson
Production Company: Stept Studios
Advisory: No advisory
Film Synopsis: 109 Below tells a tale of resilience and grit when elite rescue volunteers go out of their way to save the lives of strangers.

Keep It Burning
(2024, Spain, 32:40 min)
Director: Guillaume Broust
Producer: Manu Moreau
Production Company: Petzl
Advisory: No advisory
Film Synopsis: The Karakoram is the wildest mountain range in the world and Nameless Tower beckons to climbers who approach. Edu Marín, his brother Alex and father Novato attempt the second free ascent of Eternal Flame 33 years after the first ascent by Wolfgang Güllich and Kurt Albert, and 13 years after Alex and Thomas Huber’s first free ascent.

Welcome to the Pit
(2024, Canada, 14:45 min)
Director: Seth Gillis
Producer: Charlène Brochu
Production Company: N/A
Advisory: Coarse language
Film Synopsis: In 2011, Steve Matthews had a bright idea. With his kids completely hooked on snowboarding, he rallied a few friends and set out to build Yellowknife’s first and only rope tow.

Dolomites (Tour Edit)
(2024, France, 33:07 min)
Director: Kilian Bron, Valentin Birant
Producer: Kilian Bron
Production Company: VB Films
Advisory: No Advisory
Film Synopsis: Mountain biking free solo and more... Kilian Bron and his team take you on a thrilling and history-rich adventure, riding the steepest trails of the Dolomites.

Undammed
(2024, USA, 17:00 min)
Director: Shane Anderson
Producer: Shane Anderson
Production Company: Patagonia Films, Swiftwater Films
Advisory: No advisory
Film Synopsis: After witnessing a massive fish kill on her ancestral home waters, Yurok tribal attorney Amy Bowers Cordalis dedicated her life to reversing the generations-long destruction wrought by the Klamath River dams. Undammed follows her journey to free the Klamath, from testifying before Congress to passing down fishing traditions within her young family.