2025 Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival Trailer

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. Photo credit: Erik Boomer

A Baffin Vacation, Love on Ice

Banff Centre Mountain Book and Film Festival 2025 Best Short Film winner! Throughout their respective histories, both horse and Indigenous people have been corralled. Fences put horses in pens and the Blackfeet on reservations, but the centuries long attempts to subdue both was also successful in strengthening the connection between horse and man. Photo credit: Chris Murphy

Borrowed from the Earth

Two Bozeman-based ski patrollers reflect on the rapid changes facing their home and the sport they love. With 50 seasons under his belt, Dene Brandt regards the future with an optimism that infects his younger co-worker.

Bridgers

Over the course of the 15-year Extreme Ice Survey project, photographer James Balog and his team brought some of the world’s first and most compelling visual evidence of climate change to the global stage as he depicted the rapid melting of glaciers around the world. Chasing Time is a meditative exploration of time and mortality, following James and his crew as they bring the decades-long project to a close, cataloging more than one million images in the process.

Chasing Time

Tenzin Dolma was forced into marriage at 15 and became a mother at 19. Now Tenzin defies gender roles by running in grueling ultramarathons in northern India's Himalaya without any institutional support, funds or training. "I wanted to prove to myself that I could overcome challenges." This film is presented with on-screen subtitles. Photo credit: Akshat Kumar Jain

Life Uphill - Tenzin Dolma Story

“What happens if we survive all this chaos?” OUTLIER: Common is a documentary film that follows three Latina athletes as they navigate life in remote mountains alongside the unpredictable forces of Mother Nature. Photo credit: Carly Finke

Outlier: Common

Alex Armstrong finds her passion for the things she once loved diminished. Through a gathering of like minded souls she manages to rekindle her flame. Photo credit: Graeme Meiklejohn

Slipstream

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 reminder not to take life (or skiing) too seriously. Photo credit: Chloe Jimenez

That One Friend

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Online Film Passes

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.