2025 Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival Trailer

Banff Centre Mountain Book and Film Festival 2025 Creative Excellence winner! This short film about forever unfolds from the POVs of a father and son as they attempt to write a book about what forever means. The father feels overwhelmed by all of the threats to forever and calls an unlikely hero – Mark Ruffalo – to ask for help seeing the big picture.

A Little Story About Forever

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. Photo credit: Jayme Dittmar

Arctic Alchemy

In the dead of winter, photographer Tom Murphy treks deep into Yellowstone National Park to capture the lives and struggles of those who survive there. As the only person known to have traversed the length of Yellowstone solo in winter, Murphy is driven by curiosity and a yearning to experience nature in its raw form. Photo credit: Tom Bison, Tom Murphy

Frozen Frames: Murphy's Yellowstone

In New York City, it’s illegal to idle a vehicle for more than three minutes. But for fifty years, it went unenforced. Idle Warriors dives into the motivations that drive environmental bounty hunters as they obsessively track tailpipe exhaust, while unpacking the broader question of whether deputizing citizens to enforce laws is the best way to do it. Photo credit: Nick Ramey

Idle Warriors

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.

The Book of George

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. Photo credit: Josh Tucker

The Hive Architect

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Online Films for the Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival will be available from November 12 - 23, 2025. Year-round film programs are available on our Banff on Demand platform at watch.banffcentre.ca/banffondemand

The 2025 Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival is online in Canada and the US from November 12-23!

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.