Banff Mountain Film Festival

Sunday, April 26, 2026 at 3pm

This event will include a 15-minute intermission.

Flow Vision

(2025, France, 08:07)

Director: Ambroise Trauet

Ambroise Trauett rips the most challenging road in the French Alps for downhill skateboarding and achieves a flow state.

A Brutal, Beautiful Life

(2024, USA, 10:27 min)

Director: Beau Gaughran

Amid the rugged beauty of the Rocky Mountain high desert, ranching

women, their dogs, horses, and cattle share quiet, powerful moments of connection.

Best Day Ever

BEST FILM: MOUNTAIN SPORTS and 2025 AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS

(2025, USA, 48:15 min)

Director: Ben Knight, Berne Broudy

Best Day Ever follows the stories of adaptive mountain bikers Greg Durso and Allie Bianchi as they navigate the challenges of their disabilities while embracing the support, friendship, and joy they find in their rural Vermont riding community.

-INTERMISSION-

That One Friend

(2025, USA, 09:08 min)

Director: Sara Beam Robbins, Grant Robbins

Professional backcountry skier Sierra Schlag has built a career around focus, grit, and chasing the next big line. Waverly Chin — aka Waves — her funky, free-spirited best friend reminds her not to take life (or skiing) too seriously.

Old Man Lightning

BEST CLIMBING FILM AWARD

(2025, USA, 45:34 min)

Director: Dawn Kish

The best climbing comeback comedy film ever made? It will make you laugh and cry.

Jaunt

(2025, USA, 04:10 min)

Director: Daniel Mitchell

In a stark warehouse office, Justice is weighed down by an endless to-do list. But every day, he finds escape in a one-hour ritual on his bike.