Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour on Feb 27, 2024 | UCSB Arts & Lectures

Curated and hosted by Roman Baratiak, A&L Associate Director Emeritus

The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour returns for two nights of exhilarating mountain adventures at larger-than-life scale. Featuring the world’s best films on subjects ranging from ice climbing and high-altitude ballooning to mountain culture and the environment, the tour delivers adrenaline-packed thrills alongside profound messages about human potential and the natural world. An entirely different program of films screens each night.

Film Lineup: Tue, Feb 27

FUEGO  (France, 2023, 7 min.)
Featuring landscapes from Guatemala to Peru via Bolivia, Fuego is a breathtaking mountain biking masterpiece. 

Two Point Four  (United Kingdom, 2023, 20 min.)
Not your typical family holiday: Leo Houlding, his wife Jess and their two children climb Norway's national mountain via a 2,000 foot big wall.

Canada Vertical  (Canada, 2023, 35 min.) 
By ski, canoe and bike, a team of highly motivated Quebeckers set out on one of the longest wilderness expeditions ever documented.

No Way  (France, 2023, 4 min.)
Jean-Baptiste Chandelier takes his unique, ground-skimming art combining paragliding and filmmaking to a whole new level.

Pioneers  (United States, 2023, 20 min.)
Eleven years after winning the American Birkebeiner but being disqualified for wearing the wrong bib, Joe Dubay returns to pioneer a new sport: tandem cross country skiing.

The Blackcountry Journal  (United States, 2023, 10 min.)
Discovering the correlation between jazz and skiing – an expression of art, skiing and black culture. 

The Ascension Series: Morag Skelton  (United Kingdom, 2023, 5 min.) 
A climber who constantly pushes the limits, Morag Skelton doesn’t let being deaf limit what’s possible on the mountainside.

Reel Rock: DNA  (United States, 2023, 23 min.)
29-year-old French sport climber Seb Bouin attempts to establish what may be the most difficult route ever climbed.

Film programming subject to change