If you haven’t had a chance to attend a showing for the Banff Mountain Film Festival, today is your lucky day! Banff Mountain Film Festival has graciously released a selection of shorts and feature-length films for our enjoyment while we’re stuck at home. We don’t know about you, but whenever we get to the end of one of these breathtaking, inspiring films, we want to talk about what we just witnessed!

Join us for a Zoom Happy Hour in honor of our Countdown to Earth Day! Indulge in a glass of wine, crack a cold one, or sip on herbal tea while we chat about the films from the comfort of our homes. We’ll come prepared with engaging discussion points, you just have to show up to our Zoom meeting (https://us04web.zoom.us/j/272924008)! We’ve selected a few different films for you to choose from that we will talk about on Friday, April 17th at 5:30pm. Watch one or all, but just come and hang out!

Don’t have Zoom? Sign up at Zoom.us; click ‘Join a Meeting;’ copy and paste the zoom link into the ‘Join a Meeting’ box; hit Join!

Films:

Artifishal | The Fight to Save Wild Salmon (2019, 80 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdNJ0JAwT7I
“Artifishal is a film about people, rivers, and the fight for the future of wild fish and the environment that supports them. It explores wild salmon’s slide toward extinction, threats posed by fish hatcheries and fish farms, and our continued loss of faith in nature.”

The Last Honey Hunter (2017, 36 min)
https://vimeo.com/201695311
“In the steep mountain jungles of Nepal’s Hongu river valley, members of the isolated Kulung culture have risked their lives for generations scaling dangerous cliffs to collect wild and toxic honey. Deep and dark, the film glides through a misty world of forest spirits, dreams, and woodsmoke to share the story of the leader of the harvest and his final journey.”

Climb Your Dreams (2019, 2 min)
https://vimeo.com/362028659
“The rush of life in the city inspires a dream for an escape. The nature of reality is questioned by the contrast of what we do for a living.”

Chasing the Sublime (2018, 6 min)
https://vimeo.com/292071219
“Why do we put ourselves into the path of discomfort and risk? What drives us to get too cold and too tired, to battle with fear, in the name of adventure? Follow the originators of The Outdoor Swimming Society, ‘swim twins’ Kate Rew and Kari Furre, in this hauntingly beautiful glimpse at the physicality of UK cold water swimming, as two friends set out to chase the sublime.”

Camel Finds Water (2019, 8 min)
https://vimeo.com/328771728
“Trevor found the hull of an abandoned fishing boat in a field. He brought it home and built it back to a sea-worthy state over the course of a summer. Then, he took it on its maiden voyage to British Columbia in search of waves.”

It was really tough to just pick a few! Here is a link to more films from the Banff archive: https://www.climbing.co.za/2020/03/banff-mountain-film-festival-films-online-for-free/