2024 Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival Trailer

A psychotherapist struggling with climate anxiety explores what it means to live in a dying world. Photo credit: Rowan Mikolic-O'Rourke

Feeling the Apocalypse

Following his Grandmother's footsteps to one of the most remote and bear-strewn beaches in Alaska, painter Max Romey discovers that an ocean of problems is closer to home than he could have imagined. Photo credit: Max Romey

Footprints on Katmai

A poetic documentary honoring the philosophy and cultural expression of the Achuar people from the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador. Photo credit: Taliesin Black-Brown

I Am The Nature

Dive into the world of caddisflies, the artisans of the aquatic world – as Dr. Judy Li shares how her childhood curiosity led to a career in freshwater science, and how she has found ways to share the joys of science with audiences of all ages. Photo credit: David Herasimtschuk

Judy's Creek

Giant sequoias are some of the largest, longest-lived, and most iconic trees on Earth and are highly adapted to fire. The inexorable effects of climate change present an imminent existential threat to this incredible species once thought to be impervious. Photo credit: Simon Reinert

Last of the Monarchs

Told by a generation of Italian skiers who have witnessed the slopes on which they learned to ski turn into arid, yellow hills, The Last Skiers is an urgent statement on the fragility of nature – as many European nations saw their warmest January day ever, with temperatures topping 20°C in some areas of northern Italy. Photo credit: Veronica Ciceri

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The Last Skiers

In the Dominican Republic, baseball is more than just a sport – it's a way of life. However, as the nation's passion for baseball flourishes, its natural environment is under threat from rapid development. It requires dedicated individuals like Ismael to guide us back to solutions that harmonize with the environment. Photo credit: Corinna Halloran

Roots

The Bird in my Backyard follows a window salesman turned hummingbird expert as he documents the secret lives of the hummingbirds that nest in his urban backyard. Photo credit: Ryan Wilkes

The Bird in my Backyard

After witnessing a massive fish kill on her ancestral home waters, Yurok tribal attorney Amy Bowers Cordalis dedicated her life to reversing the generations-long destruction wrought by the Klamath River dams. Undammed follows her journey to free the Klamath, from testifying before Congress to passing down fishing traditions within her young family.

Undammed

In the waters off the remote island of Iluulux^, Alaska, toxic algal blooms are increasingly infecting filter feeding shellfish with unknown causation. When a community member dies from eating blue mussels, Unangax^ scientist Shayla begins working with her tribe to research and understand the harmful blooms. Photo credit: Palmer Morse

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<div style="text-align: justify;">Curated by the team behind the most prestigious mountain festival in the world, the Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival app is your source for the most inspiring adventure, mountaineering, high adrenaline sports, mountain culture, and environment films.</div>

Film programs will be available from November 6 as per the release schedule. You can access your tickets via {{my_tickets_link|"My Tickets"}}.

If you've purchased an online film pass, you can start watching film programs by heading to https://watch.banffcentre.ca/filmfest and unlocking the programs you wish to watch. These are all of your tickets for online film programs only (once a program has been unlocked). 

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Online Film Passes

Online Films for the Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival were available from November 6 - 13, 2024. Year-round film programs are available on our Banff on Demand platform at watch.banffcentre.ca/banffondemand

The 2023 Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival is online in Canada and the US from October 28 to November 8!

Here's what's coming up soon. Can't make it? No sweat. Many live streams will be available for on-demand viewing as well.