The Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival highlights the many aspects of mountain culture throughout the world. This year we are fortunate to be hosting 2 nights with 2 different film line-ups!

Each showing at WSU will be comprised of several films varying in lengths from two minutes to full-length feature film productions. The majority of films feature stunning cinematography of adventure-based activities such as skiing, climbing, kayaking, base jumping, mountain biking, and more, to highlight the nuances of civilization, and shed light on areas less traveled.

Schedule of Events

January 23, 2023

JUNIPER FILM LINE UP:

Alta
2022, Switzerland, 5 min
A team of high-performance riders travels to Alta, Utah for a spring freeskiing session that delivers all styles and conditions of skiing.

REEL ROCK 16: Bridge Boys
2022, USA, 28 min
A horizontal big-wall adventure on the longest, most ridiculous crack climb ever attempted

Continuum
2021, Canada, 2 min
Everything is connected. Each ride is an extension of the one before and each re-entry is a transition to the next launch. Each experience builds toward a flow state of endless progression.

Before They Fall
2021, Canada, 40 min
A decades-long battle to protect old-growth forests in British Columbia escalates when conservation groups, First Nations, scientists, and land defenders block a logging company from accessing the last unprotected watershed on southern Vancouver Island.

A Baffin Vacation
2022, Canada, 12 min
Erik Boomer and Sarah McNair-Landry set off on a 45-day expedition through Baffin Island in search of stunning cliffs to climb and unexplored rivers to kayak.

Wood Hood
2021, USA, 16 min
DeVaughn (15) from New York City craves a "quiet place" to escape the chaos of his home, the city, and kids that steal from him. On a weekend-long group camping trip, we witness the joy and growth that is possible when kids have an opportunity to find that "quiet place".

Doo Sar: A Karakoram Ski
Expedition Film (Tour Edit)
2021, Poland, 20 min
Andrzej Bargiel and Jedrek Baranowski set off to the Karakoram for an adventure full of passion and love that has them freeriding at over 6,000 metres above sea level!

North Shore Betty
2021, USA & Canada, 12min
Betty Birrell picked up mountain biking at age 45, in the misty forests above North Vancouver, after a career as a mountaineer and professional windsurfer. Three decades later, she is proof that you're never too old to send.

January 24, 2023

WILLOW FILM LINE UP:

Flow
2021, France, 5 min
An aerial and symphonic journey with skier Sam Favret, in the heart of a closed resort during the winter of 2021, rediscovering a playground in its wild state.

The Fastest Girl in the Village
2021, UK, 6 min
As a girl growing up in Lesotho, Khothalang Leuta never imagined she could become a bike racer. From teaching herself how to ride a bike to becoming "faster than the boys", see what can be accomplished when opportunity is provided.

Nuisance Bear
2021, Canada, 14 min
Churchill, Manitoba, is famous as an international destination for photographing polar bears. We've seen the majestic images and classic wildlife series captured here, but what do these bears see of us?

WILD WATERS (Tour Edit)
2022, Switzerland, 45 min
Discover the incredible life of Nouria Newman, the most gifted kayaker of her generation.

Creation Theory
2022, USA, 22 min
Nature's raw elements converge in the Westfjords of Iceland, taking us on a journey from the interstellar birth of gravity and rhythm to their ultimate human creative expression: surfer on wave, snowboarder on peak, and musician on stage.

REEL ROCK 16: Cenote
2022, USA, 9 min
A young papaya farmer discovers the pure joy of climbing in the crystalline limestone sinkholes of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.

Free to Run
2022, USA, 31 min
UN human rights attorney and mountain runner, Stephanie Case, struggles to find a way forward for the Afghan women of her NGO, Free to Run, while taking on her most challenging ultra-race yet.

Danny MacAskill's Do A Wheelie
2021, UK, 6 min
Join Danny MacAskill and a host of friends as he pushes the boundaries of the humble wheelie and learns a thing or two from friends old and new

Date: January 23-24, 2023

Time: 7-10 pm

Cost: $12 for UREC members/$20 for non members

Location:
Compton Union Building,
1500 NorthEast Terrell Mall,
Pullman, WA 99164.

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