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  • Brit Rock IV: Queen Lines

    This film follows the remarkable visit to the UK of US climber Anna Hazelnutt. Anna teams up with Tom Randall and the sparks fly off the crag both in terms of climbing feats and the volume of fun thrown into each day. Entertaining and compelling Anna has only been trad climbing for 12 months yet ...

  • Rise
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    Rise

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    Rise with Juliette Willmann. Juliette Willmann turns the page on the Freeride World Tour for high mountain skiing, embarking on a quest for summits and images. She openly shares her experiences, sensations, challenges and desires without reservation. Official Selections 2023: iF3, Femmes en Monta...

  • Great Ocean Love

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    Great Ocean Love is part documentary, part road trippin’ surf flick that follows Belinda Baggs, Linley Hurrell and Lilly Pollard on a journey of discovery from the teachings of Gunditjmara whale dreamer Yaraan Bundle. Along the way they meet saltwater women of the deep south who share their love ...

  • Chicks and Machines

    1 season

    Chicks And Machines is a motor sports show hosted by Cyndi Martin, co-owner of the Chicks And Machines movement, which highlights exceptional women from around the world. The show also features inspiring interviews and moments of shared fun between the guests and the host. Whether you are a motor...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Caribou

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    Caribou - The Great Project of Anne Bouchard. One of the best trail runners in Quebec, Anne started the most important projects of her life. Trail running has become a daily adventure for Anne, her energy turbine in the morning, an essential way of life for which she applies rigor and discipline ...

  • Guardians of the Underworld

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    This film follows 21-year-old climbing prodigy Emma Powell, her passion for dry tooling, and her evolution into ice climbing. Watch as she attempts to become the first British woman to climb D12 on Guardians of the Underground, one of the hardest dry-tooling routes in the country. The film explor...

  • 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...

  • Molinaro

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    Molinaro charts the journey of amateur turned professional runner Carla Molinaro as she navigates her first year as a professional athlete, having achieved her newfound success later in life. Following on from her gold medal performance at the South Africa's 2018 Comrades Ultra marathon, Carla's ...

  • Climb for Hope

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    In an effort to test their own physical capabilities, as well as raise funds and awareness for breast cancer and MS research, 6 female climbers partner with the AdventurHER Travel and Jodi’s Climb For Hope non-profits to climb Washington’s Mt. Adams. Official Selection 2023: SHAFF. Official Selec...

  • Line & Air

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    This Snowboard/Ski documentary of epic proportions follows 3 world class riders in their quest to shred a series of iconic mountains and lines in the Alps. Meet Geraldine Fasnacht: Basejumper, wingsuiter, glaciers pilot, and triple winner of the Verbier X-treme, the world’s most extreme competiti...

  • Baby Steps

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    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

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    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...

  • Norseman – A Day of Extremes

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    Follow Caroline’s preparation and Norseman experience during 2022 with its highs and lows. This film follows her to Nepal where amongst the breathtaking scenery of the Himalayas she suffers with a medical emergency and is forced to return home. A few weeks later she competes in her home extreme t...

  • A Racer's Dream

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    A Racer’s Dream’ from Hutchinson UR has been over a year in the making and aims to capture like never before the heartache, sweat and sacrifices that go into a pro team’s assault on the World Championships. 2013 yet again saw the Aussie Mick Hannah nominated as one of the big pre-race favourites....

  • Making the Most of It

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    A short movie about Juliette Willmann’s life as a skier. It starts at the beginning of her ski career until now. It includes Alpine racing, freerideworld tour and a beautiful ski trip in Norway. A new start for Juliette after many years of freeride competitions. iF3 Official Selection 2022.

  • Nat to the Summit

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    Three disciplines: cycling, running and climbing. Plus an ambitious goal: to start from the seaside and reach the peak of a mountain in the shortest time possible. Ultrarunner Natalia Mastrota undertakes this venture starting from the city of Gijón and reaching within 10 hours and 50 minutes the ...

  • Racing Stock

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    15-year-old Taylor Borthwick is a stock car racer, like her father and her grandfather before her. A junior national championship winner, racing is her life, so friends and homework have to fit around evenings in the garage and weekends at the track.

    As she turns 16, she will move into the adult...

  • UTA
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    UTA

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    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...

  • As Long As We Go East / Tant Qu'on Ira Vers l'Est

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    Through a journey across Europe, starting in Rennes, finishing in Saint-Petersburg, a team of young documentarists spontaneously and poetically engage with an experience of culture, languages and borders. The camera follows Tao, a blooming artist travelling by the means of her skateboard. Along t...

  • Set up to Sell

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    “Set up to Sell – Surfing as a Lifestyle Product” is a documentary film about the increasing commercialization of surfing and sexism in surf culture. It focus on the nexus of surfing, lifestyle and creativity and what it means to be a female surfer. Best of Ericeira Award – International Surf Fil...

  • Women with a Mission

    1 season

    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...

  • Letter to my Mother Ocean

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    In this magical world of blue wonder “Lettre à ma Mer” defines this constant need to go back surfing. We follow three women, through the changing seasons, depicting their lives and relationships that the ocean and surfing have on their everyday lives in the beautiful coastal village of Finistre. ...