Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour

April 1 & 2 (Get tickets for Friday night here)
Doors: 6pm
Show Starts: 7pm
At The Kelly Strayhorn Theater

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COVID-19 Precautions
** Proof of full vaccination for eligible people, a corresponding ID, and masking is required upon entering the Kelly Strayhorn Theater.

We are paying close attention to government regulations, CDC guidelines, and requirements from the Kelly Strayhorn Theater. In the event of increased COVID-19 transmission rates, we may need to decrease our ticket capacity. Ticket holders will be contacted by a staff member in reverse order (last tickets purchased will be the first to be contacted), and offered a full refund, or an opportunity to donate to Venture Outdoors programs.

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Film Lineup

A FOREIGN NATIVE (TOUR EDIT)

2021, Austria, 49 minutes
Filmmaker: Jonas Abenstein, Karin Lechner, NINE&ONE, Red Bull Media House
Advisory: General
A professional skier leaves his familiar world behind and spends close to a year in Iran. When military activity
ramps up in January and Covid-19 hits in February of 2020 his journey takes a very different route. Learning Farsi and playing the Tanbur, he goes to explore the south of Iran with his new and old friends.

MARKUS EDER’S THE ULTIMATE RUN

2021, Austria, 10 minutes
Filmmaker: Christoph Thoresen, Daniel Schiessl, Tobi Reindl, Legs Of Steel, Red Bull Media House
Advisory: General
What if you could link every powder turn, every rail, every cliff drop, every comp run and every kicker nailed into one ultimate run? Well, Markus Eder is doing just that!

IZEMBEK

2020, USA, 14 minutes
Filmmaker: Gerrit Vyn, Conservation Media at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Advisory: General
There has been pressure for nearly four decades to build a road through Alaska’s Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Gerrit Vyn explores the area to document its wildlife and wilderness, before it’s too late.

REEL ROCK 15: DEEP ROOTS

2020, USA, 35 minutes
Filmmaker: Josh Lowell, Nick Rosen, Brett Lowell, Peter Mortimer, REEL ROCK
Advisory: Coarse Language
Lonnie Kauk’s personal journey to honor his indigenous Yosemite roots, and to connect with his legendary father by repeating his iconic climbs.

NEVER IN THE WAY

2020, Canada, 6 minutes
Filmmaker: Colin Jones, Darcy Wittenburg, Anthill Films
Advisory: General
Chicago-based bike messenger, Nico Deportago-Cabrera, sees city maps like a central nervous system where everything is connected. ‘The point,’ he says, ‘is to never be in the way. If you’re never in the way, then you’re always right where you need to be.

COVID-19 Precautions
** Proof of full vaccination for eligible people, a corresponding ID, and masking is required upon entering the Kelly Strayhorn Theater.