Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour 2011 - South Africa: Cape Town, Joburg, Pretoria

The Banff Mountain Film World Tour showcases the efforts and talents of the world’s finest mountain filmmakers. Every year the Banff Centre in Canada receives hundreds of hopeful entries. These are narrowed down until only the very best films on Mountain Culture remain.

In 1986, the Banff Centre began an outreach programme to bring the tour to other communities across the world... and so the Banff Mountain Film World Tour was born.

20 years later, in 2006, Cape Union Mart first bought the Banff Mountain Film World Tour to South Africa, to Cape Town. 2007 saw Banff expand to Joburg and Pretoria.

The tour enables you to experience the adventure of climbing, base jumping, alpine skiing, kayaking, mountain expeditions, remote cultures, and the world’s last great wild places - all brought to life on the big screen.

Cape Union Mart invites you to join them for this remarkable series of films, screening once daily at selected Ster-Kinekor cinemas around the country.

Cross Country Snowboarding

The Longest Way

A highly entertaining time-lapse of a one-year-walk from Beijing to Urumqi. Time and distance travelled are charmingly demonstrated by the growth of a beard in this five-minute short.

Director: Christoph Rehage | Runtime: 5 mins

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Tuzgle

Nestled under the Tuzgle volcano in Argentina lies an unexplored wonderland of boulders and crags. Tuzgle follows Swiss climber Nina Caprez and her climbing companions as they discover this playground in the desert.

Director: Julien Nadiras & Vladimir Cellier | Runtime: 13 mins

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Life Cycles

Filmed in Ultra HD, Life Cycles provides some of the most visually stunning images the mountain sports world has ever seen. With thought-provoking narration, it’s a beautiful celebration of the mountain bike – and a tribute to the culture of mountain biking.

Director: Ryan Gibb & Derek Frankowski | Runtime: 14 mins

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Eastern Rises

The Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East may as well be the end of the earth. Its enormously wild landscape is swarming with bugs and bears and threaded with rivers full of massive mouse-eating trout. In the stunning film Eastern Rises, fishing is poetry; Bigfoot lurks in the fog, and fishermen risk life and limb in decommissioned Cold War helicopters to explore rivers that have never been fished before.

Director: Ben Knight | Runtime: 38 mins

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Cross Country Snowboarding

Joel and Tate, the world’s most dedicated Nordic snowboarders, battle the winter elements as they fight prejudice from skiers and regular snowboarders alike.

Director: Adam Brodie | Runtime: 3 mins

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Into Darkness

Journey beneath the surface in Into Darkness with a group of cavers who push impossibly small passages to access some of the final frontiers on earth. The images and sounds of spectacular and remote wilderness caves will reveal a fantastic world unlike anything we experience on the surface.

Director: John Waller | Runtime: 15 mins

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Second Nature

An exploration of the abstract and the extreme, Second Nature is an examination of the natural boundaries of the human body. Noah Sakamoto, Patrick Rizzo and J.M. Duran star as the test subjects as they wield skateboards and vintage suits to race down the roads of the High Sierras in California.

Director: Colin Blackshear | Runtime: 6 mins

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Dream Result

River expeditions into the wilderness of Argentina, cold water paddling in Norway, and a quest for the highest waterfall drop yet, are all on the agenda for a group of top athletes and friends in Dream Result.

Director: Rush Sturges | Runtime: 17 mins

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The Swiss Machine

Ueli Steck may be the greatest speed alpinist the world has ever seen. Accompanied by stunning aerial footage that captures him racing up 2500-metre alpine faces, The Swiss Machine tells of Steck’s record-breaking ascents in the alps and of his one-man alpine speed game which takes him to some of the largest, highest walls in the world.

Director: Nick Rosen & Peter Mortimer | Runtime: 20 mins

Date

Friday 28th October – Thursday 3rd November 2011

Times

There will be one screening per day at 20:15.
Each screening contains all 9 films, and the total length is approximately 2 hours 10 minutes.

Cinemas

We are screening at four Ster-Kinekor cinemas across the country:

Cape Town	Cavendish Square & Tygervalley Centre
Johannesburg	Sandton City
Pretoria	Brooklyn Mall

Bookings

Bookings can be made through Ticketline on 082 16789 and electronically at www.sterkinekor.com.
Bookings open at the beginning of October 2011.

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