Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival
World Tour
Toronto
Every year, Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival goes on tour bringing feature films from their film festival to the world.
The tour reaches Toronto Saturday and Sunday March 21st and 22nd, 2026
This year will have 4 programs across 2 days
Don't miss this opportunity to catch some epic films.
15% off all 4 shows (festival pass)
Full program details to be released early 2026
Program A - Sat Mar 21 @ 2:30 PM
Program B - Sat Mar 21 @ 7:00 PM
Program C - Sun Mar 22 @ 2:30 PM
Program D - Sun Mar 22 @ 7:00 PM
In the meantime, enjoy some of the amazing shots you may see at the Film Festival
Program A
saturday matinee
Saturday, March 21, 2026
program at 2:30Pm
Doors at 2:00Pm
Programs and Films subject to change without notice
Cold Calls - Japan
(2025, Canada, 06:09 min)
Director: Alexi Godbout
Producer: Blank Collective Films, Alexi Godbout
Advisory: No advisory
Cold Calls is a ski film pieced together through conversations, memories, and whatever the season decided to offer!
Black Eyes
(2025, Australia, 18:34 min)
Director: Mateo Arango Guerrero
Producer: Manigua Productions; Mateo Arango Guerrero
Advisory: No advisory
In Mongolia's timeless Altai Mountains, 13-year-old Kharakoz embodies a captivating blend of ancestral traditions and modern influences. As she learns the ancient art of eagle-hunting, the film delves into the powerful ripple effect of passing this sacred knowledge to girls.
Best Day Ever
***2025 BEST FILM: MOUNTAIN SPORTS & 2025 AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD***
(2025, USA, 48:15 min)
Director: Ben Knight, Berne Broudy
Producer: Richmond Mountain Trails, Berne Broudy
Advisory: Coarse language
Best Day Ever follows the stories of adaptive mountain bikers Greg Durso and Allie Bianchi as they navigate the relentless challenges of their disabilities with humour and attitude. Along the way, they embrace the tremendous support, friendship, and joy they find in their rural Vermont riding community.
Deluge
(2025, Canada, 01:51min)
Director: Scott Secco
Producer: Scott Secco, Chris King
Advisory: No advisory
Georgia Astle, Casey Brown, Carson Storch, and Tom van Steenbergen battle the elements.
Dissidence
(2025, France, 33:55 min)
Director: Rama Dio
Producer: Syahputra Rama Dio Syahputra
Advisory: No advisory
Two unexpected names are emerging on the stage of the climbing World Championships: Ravianto and Raviandi Ramadhan, twin brothers from Indonesia. With nothing but their own resources, Dissidence retraces their extraordinary journey, from the training walls of Jakarta to a climbing route in Savoie, France.
Emil & Karl - Little Wheels, Big Mountains (Tour Edit)
(2025, Germany, 22:36 min)
Director: Kilian Bron, Valentin Birant
Director: Holger Wimmer
Producer: Holger Wimmer schau ma mal
Advisory: Coarse language
Mountain biking free solo and more... Kilian Bron and his team take you on a thrilling and history-rich adventure, riding the steepest trails of the Dolomites.
Program b
saturday evening
Saturday, March 21, 2026
program at 2:30Pm
Doors at 2:00Pm
Programs and Films subject to change without notice
Cold Calls - Canada
(2025, Canada, 05:56 min)
Director: Alexi Godbout
Producer: Blank Collective Films, Alexi Godbout
Advisory: No advisory
Cold Calls is a ski film pieced together through conversations, memories, and whatever the season decided to offer!
Rogatkin
(2025, Switzerland, 15:20 min)
Director: Keenan DesPlanques
Producer: Keenan DesPlanques
Advisory: No advisory
From the highs to lows, Nicholi Rogatkin has changed the sport of slopestyle mountain biking with countless world-first tricks. Through a 20 year career of pushing the sport, he has been a positive inspiration for his community.
Robson
(2025, Canada, 48:54 min)
Director: Philip Forsey
Producer: Malcolm Sangster, Joshua Lavigne, Gabriella Dufour-Léonard
Production Company: Sherpas Cinema
Advisory: Course Language
Two world-class ski mountaineers, Christina Lustenberger and Guillaume Pierrel, attempt a daring first descent of Mount Robson's South Face, retracing the footsteps of alpine pioneers and the weight of a legacy that has challenged generations.
Becky Bates, Not a Running Story
(2025, Canada, 12:30 min)
Director: Scot Proudfoot
Producer: Lukas Nemeth
Advisory: Coarse Language
Becky Bates entered the world of ultra running at the age of 50. Famously claiming to not be a runner, in reality, she's one of the fastest in the world. We follow Becky as she trains for her third Hardrock 100 at the age of 62. – they're reigning.
Bridgers
(2025, USA, 11:47 min)
Director: Joseph Fletcher
Producer: Second Original, Joseph Fletcher
Advisory: No advisory
Two unexpected names are emerging on the stage of the climbing World Championships: Ravianto and Raviandi Ramadhan, twin brothers from Indonesia. With nothing but their own resources, Dissidence retraces their extraordinary journey, from the training walls of Jakarta to a climbing route in Savoie, France.
The Book of George
(2025, USA, 15:29 min)
Director: Danny Schmidt
Producer: Danny Schmidt, George McKenzie Jr, Clay
Production Company: Barron Pure Gold Pictures
Advisory: Coarse language
From Brooklyn's concrete jungle to the heart of the Everglades, meet George McKenzie Jr., a Black photographer transforming his lens into a beacon of change. Swapping the weight of a gun for the promise of a camera, George found his calling amid nature's raw grandeur, capturing everything from city pigeons and rats to elusive panthers.
Trail to Bayanihan
(2025, Canada, 22:11 min)
Director/Producer: Cat Aeppel
Production Company: Steelhead Marketing, Martin Faubert-Smith
Advisory: No advisory
Sam pedals through diverse landscapes in the Philippines, celebrating the joy of biking and the power of community. Riding with local groups like the Baguio crew, she discovers how biking bridges distances, connects cultures, and transforms her search for heritage into a celebration of shared humanity.
Program C
sunday matinee
Sunday, March 22, 2026
program at 2:30Pm
Doors at 2:00Pm
Programs and Films subject to change without notice
Flow Vision (Tour Edit)
(2025, France, 08:07)
Director: Ambroise Trauet
Production Company: Ambroise Trauet
Advisory: No advisory
There is something that has always excited Ambroise in Downhill Skateboarding: it's those moments you experience two or three times in a season or even in your life. He has only experienced this a few times in his life while skating, so he decided to skate the most challenging road in Europe to immerse himself in this mental state — the flow state.
The Hive Architect
(2025, UK, 12:10 min)
Director/Producer: Max Weston
Production Company: Fera, Sidney Hiscox
Advisory: Coarse language
For the last 14 years Matt Somerville has spent the winters creating his log hives before driving around all of England in the summer, erecting them as non- intervention habitats for wild honey bees.
Beyond Parallels
(2025, Canada, 44:57 min)
Director: Ariane Moisan, Laurent Poliquin
Producer: Charlène Brochu
Advisory: Coarse Language
After crossing Canada from North to South in 2021, the adventurers of AKOR expeditions set out on a new challenge: a crossing of the Canadian Far North from West to East, from the Yukon to Baffin Island. A 6,900-kilometre journey by bike, canoe, sailboat and on foot.
Loving Karma (Tour Edit)
(2025, UK, USA, 40:11 min)
Director: Johnny Burke, Andrew Hinton
Producer: Johnny Burke, Andrew Hinton
Production Company: High Altitude Films, Sparkling Particles
Advisory: No advisory
Committed to raising children with love and compassion, former Buddhist monk Lobsang Phuntsok attempts to heal his own childhood abandonment by adopting unwanted children and growing them as a family at a remote children's community in the foothills of the Himalaya. Tashi and the Monk introduced us to a wild and troubled 5-year- old girl named Tashi, as she learned about the healing power of love. Loving Karma is the follow-up story, shot 12 years later, where filmmakers revisit both the community to see how life has changed over time.
A Baffin Vacation, Love on Ice
(2025, Canada, 26:23 min)
Director: Rush Sturges, Skip Armstrong
Producer: River Roots, Rush Sturges, Sarah McNair-Landry, Erik Boom
Advisory: Coarse language; Nudity
Join adventurers Erik and Sarah on yet another outrageous Baffin Vacation as they kiteski north along the remote coastline of Baffin. Over their 69-day holiday, they ski mountains, climb an epic big wall, and cross a glacier in search of new rivers to whitewater kayak.
Program d
sunday evening
Sunday, March 22, 2026
program at 7:30Pm
Doors at 7:00Pm
Programs and Films subject to change without notice
That One Friend
(2025, USA, 09:08 min)
Director: Sara Beam Robbins, Grant Robbins
Producer: Sara Beam Robbins, Grant Robbins
Production Company: The Road West Traveled
Advisory: Coarse language
Professional backcountry skier Sierra Schlag has built a career around focus, grit, and always chasing the next big line. She takes her job, and her skiing, seriously. But when Waverly Chin — aka Waves — her funky, free-spirited best friend shows up with snacks and silliness, it's a reminder not to take life (or skiing) too seriously.
A Sense of Fight
(2025, Australia, 2:05 min)
Director: Matt Raimondo
Producer: Matt Raimondo
Advisory: Coarse language
Callan Blanchknox reflects on the deeper meaning of climbing—beyond strength, it’s about movement, connection, and the sense of fight it brings—all while tackling the first ascent of an epic upside-down cave traverse.
The Finisher: Jasmin Paris and the Barkley Marathons
(2025, USA, 46:52 min)
Director/Producer: Julia Marie Campanelli, Drew Darby
Production Company: Singletrack LLC, Finn Alexander Melanson, Robert Fisher
Advisory: No advisory
The Finisher follows ultrarunner Jasmin Paris as she takes on the notorious Barkley Marathons, attempting to become the first woman to ever complete the race in its 38-year history. Through past failures and relentless perseverance, Paris pushes the limits of endurance and possibility.
Lines
(2025, USA, 08:55 min)
Director: Josh Goldsmith
Producer: Ben Nordal, Josh Folan
Production Company: Uhuru Mountain Collective, Big Giant
Advisory: Coarse language
There's a tense moment before every grand performance where apprehension turns to belief, and preparation meets presentation. We follow the interwoven journey of a skier and a rapper as they individually navigate this moment on stages of their own choosing.
Arctic Alchemy
(2024, USA, 29:04 min)
Director: Colin Arisman, Zeppelin Zeerip
Producer: Colin Arisman, Zeppelin Zeerip
Advisory: Coarse language
Traveling by packraft and foot through Alaska’s mighty Brooks Range, Roman Dial and his team have a goal of finding the source of a mysterious phenomenon poisoning watersheds in the Arctic. Along the journey, Roman reckons with fatherhood, personal tragedy, and the power of wilderness to both break us and bring us fully alive.
King of Chaos: Justinas Leveika
(2025, UK, Norway, 30:10 min)
Director: Fraser Byrne
Producer: Tailfin, Fraser Byrne, James Atkey
Advisory: Coarse language
By day, Justinas Leveika manages a nursing home. In his spare time, he’s attempting a brutal cycling endurance challenge: to ride three of the longest, toughest bikepacking races in North America in a single year. With an intimate perspective on time and aging, Justinas races not to win, but to live.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long is the whole program?
Typically any given program will run for approximately three hours. This is made up of several short films, between 5 minutes and 50 minutes long, with an intermission half way through. Check back in January to get a better idea of how long each film will be.
Are the films going to be the same for each program?
Each program will have different films being screened. Check back in January to see the line-up being offered this year.
What time do doors open?
The venue will be open 60 minutes (1 hour) before screening time.
What if I'm late?
Seating is on a first-come-first-serve basis, and people usually start lining up 30 minutes before the show – so get there early!
Do you offer ticket refunds?
Unfortunately all ticket sales are final.
Is the event child friendly?
Yes, all persons attending are required to have a valid ticket. Some films to contain coarse language or adult content themes. The venue is licensed and will be offering alcohol for purchase to patrons.
Are there any accommodations?
If you have any questions about accommodations, please contact us at info@torontobanfffilmfest.org and we will do our best to answer your question.
Where is the Theatre?
Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour in Toronto is held at TIFF Lightbox, 350 King St W, Toronto, ON M5V 3X5