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  • The Invisible Path / Il Sentiero Invisibile

    Movie

    To get out of a dark period, a young musician and a group of boys with drug and alcohol addiction problems approach the mountains, discovering new inner paths. Eleonora is 17 years old and has a wonderful talent for the cello. She has to prepare for an event that will take her to the Musica sulle...

  • A Goal to Dream

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    A group of girls from remote north areas of Pakistan come together to form a football team and prove that sport can be a powerful tool to break gender barriers and make a huge change in the society. The girls face numerous adversities to achieve their dream: the creation of the first girls’ footb...

  • Dear President Biden

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    Our climate change can’t wait. As a candidate, Joe Biden called climate change an “existential threat” and promised the issue could be part of everything he did as a President. Two years in the office… How’s he doing? Front lines across the country weigh in and ask for the President’s help. We tr...

  • Bluetits

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    Bluetits is the documentary short and directing debut from celebrated Cornish photographer Katie Burdon. The film follows founder Sian Richardson and early members of the beloved swimming group BlueTits, a now 100,000 strong organisation. A journey of self discovery and pure joie de vivre, Blueti...

  • Swim Tuff

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    Ben Tuff found recovery from alcohol and mental illness in 2012. He is a record-holding ultramarathon swimmer who has created the movie Swim Tuff with Producer, Matt Corliss. Over ten years ago, Ben gave up the bottle and taught himself to swim. Swim Tuff captures Ben’s perseverance and joy in so...

  • Fight Story II

    Movie

    Fight Story Part 2 – The Fight Continues, is the sequel to last year’s hit documentary series Fight Story. In this latest instalment, you’ll be taken on an emotional journey into the lives of 5 different individuals who all overcame tremendous adversity with one common hero… Rocky Balboa! 5 peopl...

  • Walking the Good Path

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    Walking the Good Path shows that passion can bring balance and fulfillment. Three characters are highlighted: Roman Rohrmoser, a ski-freeride professional, Gerald Rosenkranz, a mountain bike and unicycle expert, and Jay Bearhead, a Canadian indigenous person who lost his cultural identity in resi...

  • Sheri

    Movie

    Sheri Tingey’s 60 year career as a woman who has defined the odds by starting a company at age 50 that has revolutionized the outdoor industry. The film is a story about the hurdles she overcame to launch the company, about the ways she hid from view so that people would judge the boats, not her ...

  • En Route

    Movie

    Children never expect their parents to separate, and there is no one to teach them how to navigate and adjust to spending time with a single parent. This film documents the Anderson’s family adventurous family tradition: a surf trip to Devon. In the age of permanent screen addiction and distracti...

  • Below Surface

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    Below Surface follows longboard surfer Lucy Small as she grasps the baton from the renegades who fought for equal opportunity in the world of surfing decades before her. After winning a surf competition in Sydney’s Northern Beaches in 2021, and receiving a prize of less than half the male divisio...

  • Normal People Would Drive

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    A team of middle-aged women, who have never considered themselves athletes, head to the remote Australian outback to test their physical and mental limits in a desert ultramarathon. Back-of-pack endurance athlete, Cath, has found training for and taking part in ultramarathons to be life-changing....

  • The Sailor

    Movie

    What is the price of freedom? Paul Johnson sailed the world all his life. He loved, drank and lived foolish, never truly living on land. Now he is turning eighty. Both him and his boat are unfit to sail. He drinks a liter of vodka a day and contemplates his life, his death. What is at the end of ...

  • Baby Steps

    Movie

    Baby Steps follows athlete Caroline Ciavaldini’s personal journey, becoming a mother for the second time and at the same time not losing yourself as a climber. With her story, Caroline hopes to reach out to other parents while also inspiring moms to pursue their passions. Official Selection Femme...

  • Les Échappées

    Movie

    A road movie by bike, meeting those who ride, work and fight to open the way. Spring 2021, through an initiatory 3000km cycling trip, Louise Roussel and Océane Le Pape set off to meet more than 200 women, former professional cyclists, travelers in their thirties and seventies, mechanics and camer...

  • Not Just Football

    Movie

    To break the indifference on Darfur humanitarian crisis, an enterprising activist must create an all-refugee national football team and compete in the World Cup. In 2005, Gabriel Stauring, a young and enterprising activist from California, decides to travel to Africa - with a camera in hand - to ...

  • I Stay Home / Io Resto a Casa

    Movie

    The term “quarantine” comes from the 40 days of isolation to which ships returning from areas affected by the plague in the 14th century were subjected. On 30 January 2020, the WHO recommended 14 days of quarantine were necessary to contain the spread of the new Coronavirus. On the morning of 10 ...

  • Hear Our Olympics

    Movie

    The wild Olympic Peninsula is like nowhere else. It has been recognized as a national park, a wilderness area, an International Biosphere Reserve and World Heritage Site, and the quietest space in the lower 48. Yet, the park’s rare and distinctive soundscape is threatened by new and unnatural noi...

  • Red Dot on the Ocean

    Movie

    Once labeled a “youth-at-risk,” 30-year old Matt Rutherford risked it all in an attempt to become the first person to sail alone, nonstop around North and South America. On an old, scrappy 27-foot sailboat he spent 309 days alone at sea. He braved the icebergs of the Arctic and the treacherous wa...

  • Arriba Bolivia

    Movie

    ‘Arriba Bolivia’ takes you to the Bolivian Altiplano. Eight Belgian youngsters establish a climbing school together with their peers in the mining town Llallagua. They share their passion for climbing and train the local youth to become self-reliant climbers. The film focuses on the difference in...

  • Relative Risk

    Movie

    When the pandemic hit Norway, the government advised against going on mountain hikes, in order to minimize the risk of precious resources being spent on rescue operations. Relative Risk is a film that explores the concepts of health, responsibility and risk in encounters with people in nature who...

  • IronSelf

    Movie

    After a near death overnight hiking experience, Eman – a Queer Egyptian woman, shares her healing journey of re-exploring the magnificent outdoors. Through the power of vulnerability, compassion and community, Eman ventures to the same overnight hike 4 years later – nothing is impossible. As a BI...

  • UTA
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    UTA

    Movie

    UTA – The Climb for Kosovo. In 2017, 34 year-old Uta Ibrahimi became the first person from Kosovo to attempt Everest. Born and raised in eastern Kosovo, her childhood was interrupted by a fierce ethnic war that ripped the heart out of the Balkan nation. Battling against Kosovo’s entrenched gender...

  • When the Smoke Clears

    Movie

    When the Smoke Clears is a documentary film that captures the harsh realities that many veterans face when leaving the military. The story documents the journey of three veterans through war, tragedy and finally, rediscovery through the outdoors.

  • Women with a Mission

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    Women with a Mission is a series of 3 short documentary films. Each film tells a compelling story about a woman with a mission who, under most challenging circumstances, follows her passion and uses sports for change. The episode Women with a Mission – Jalou sketches the portrait of world champio...