Experience the Spirit of Adventure at the 2026 Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour-Portland!
Get ready for an unforgettable evening celebrating mountain sports, culture, the environment, and the spirit of exploration. The world-renowned Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour returns for its 26th year in Portland, presented by Chestnut Mountain Productions.
This exhilarating three-hour showcase features award-winning short films from around the globe—stories of climbers, skiers, runners, paddlers, mountain bikers, and explorers pushing the limits of human endurance and connection with nature.
Originating from the Banff Mountain Festival—the world’s largest and most prestigious celebration of mountain culture, held each November in the awe-inspiring town of Banff, Canada—the World Tour brings the best of over 300 films to audiences in more than 600 communities across 40 countries.
This year’s Portland stop promises an epic lineup of films shot in some of the planet’s most wild and remote locations. Expect breathtaking cinematography, powerful storytelling, and heart-pounding adventure that will leave you inspired to chase your own summit.
So lace up your boots, grab your seat, and prepare for an evening that celebrates the wild, the daring, and the extraordinary.
Join the world’s top filmmakers and adventurers as they climb, ski, ride, and paddle through the edge of possibility.
FRIDAY 2/6 – ICEFALL PROGRAM
Rogatkin
Switzerland, 2024, 15 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 20year career of pushing the sport, he has been a positive inspiration for his community.
A Sense of Fight
Australia, 2025, 2 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
USA, 2025, 47 min
Directors: Julia Marie Campanelli, Drew Darby
Producers: 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.
INTERMISSION
That One Friend
USA, 2025, 9 min
Directors: Sara Beam Robbins, Grant Robbins
Producers: The Road West Traveled, Sara Beam Robbins, Grant Robbins
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 reminder not to take life (or skiing) too seriously.
The Book of George
USA, 2025, 15 min
Director: Danny Schmidt
Producers: Pure Gold Pictures, Danny Schmidt, George McKenzie Jr, Clay Barron
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.
Arctic Alchemy
USA, 2024, 29 min
Directors: Colin Arisman, Zeppelin Zeerip
Producers: Field Work Creative, Wild Confluence, Zeppelin Zeerip, Colin Arisman
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.
SATURDAY 2/7 – MORAINE PROGRAM
Cold Calls – Japan
USA, 2025, 6 min
Director: Alexi Godbout
Producers: Blank Collective Films, Alexi Godbout
Advisory: Coarse language
Cold Calls is a ski film pieced together through conversations, memories, an whatever the season decided to offer!
The Hive Architect
UK, 2025, 12 min
Director: Max Weston
Producers: 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.
Best Day Ever
USA, 2025, 47 min
Directors: Ben Knight, Berne Broudy
Producers: Richmond Mountain Trails, Berne Broudy
Advisory: Coarse language
*2025 Best Film: Mountain Sports
*2025 Audience Choice Award
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.
INTERMISSION
Deluge
Canada, 2025, 2 min
Director: Scott Secco
Producers: Scott Secco, Chris King
Advisory: No advisory
Georgia Astle, Casey Brown, Carson Storch, and Tom van Steenbergen battle the elements.
Dissidence
France, 2025, 34 min
Director: Rama Dio Syahputra
Producer: 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.
A Baffin Vacation, Love on Ice
Canada, 2025, 26 min
Directors: Rush Sturges, Skip Armstrong
Producers: River Roots, Rush Sturges, Sarah McNair-Landry, Erik Boomer
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.
