Available for rental in Canada and the USA | CAD $25Duration: 1 hr 46 minsAvailable until November 22, 2026 11:59pm MT The Last of the Lookouts&nbsp;20mAbata&nbsp;25mPatches of Skye 17mTschäggättä&nbsp;12mApu&nbsp;&nbsp;32m

Bart Vanderlinde scans the forest for smoke and reflects on a 50-year career in the British Columbia Wildfire Service as other fire lookout towers across the province stand empty around him. He is one of the last guardians of a vanishing profession. Photo credit: Paige White

The Last of the Lookouts

In 1955, fascinated by the indigenous hunting of pigeons with wooden paddles and nets, Orson Welles directed the documentary The Land of Basques. Today, from the border between Spain and France, Gerardo Damboriena, a veteran pigeon hunter, reveals the secrets of this 700-year-old Basque tradition on the verge of extinction.

Abata

A promising young geologist's life is transformed by a traumatic brain injury, forcing him to let go of the future he had planned. In search of purpose, he turns to the mountains, where hiking, skiing, river surfing, and paragliding become more than outdoor pursuits; they become a path toward healing and rediscovering who he is. Photo credit: Thomas O'Hara &amp; Bryan James Cooper

Patches Of Skye

Every winter, the Tschäggättä, a frightening costumed figure that roams Lötschental during the winter carnival season, wreaks her mischief. We are plunged into a tradition poised between the past and present. In a world that grows faster, louder and more exposed, she embodies a past that refuses to adapt, even though it ultimately must offering an unpolished glimpse of a mountain spirit that slips through our grasp and maybe lives on precisely because of that.

Tschäggättä

Apu tells the story of a Quechua woman, far from home, who seeks to reconnect with her mother through the ascent of a sacred mountain. Photo credit: David Cossio

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