A selection of feature-length films taking audiences deeper into stories of adventure, exploration, challenge and the natural world from filmmakers around the globe.

Best Day Ever follows the stories of adaptive mountain bikers Greg Durso and Allie Bianchi as they navigate the relentless challenges of their disabilities and embrace the tremendous support, friendship and joy they find in their rural Vermont riding community. Allie and Greg navigate disability and regain independence with humor, attitude, and grit on mountain bike trails that dismantle ableism, build community, and become a blueprint for trails anywhere.

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Best Day Ever

“Billy” is a documentary that deals with the fears that a 70-year-old grandfather goes through when ski touring. Death, desire and time constitute the internal conflict of this adventure, which may be the last.

Billy

Birdlife is an international documentary exploring the evolution of modern wingsuit flying through the stories of nine of the sport's most influential pioneers and athletes, spanning multiple generations and nationalities.

Birdlife

Desert Lilies is a personal story about choosing to take on something uncertain, and the mindset required to keep going when it gets hard. The film follows Alice as she rides Desertus Bikus, a 1,350 km self-supported ultra gravel race from the French Basque Country to the coast of Portugal. Blending cinematic footage with GoPro clips, voice notes, and fragments from the road, it offers a grounded, intimate perspective on the physical and emotional effort behind ultra-distance riding. Before the race, Alice speaks with professional trail runner Anna Comet. Her reflections on pain, pacing, and presence quietly shape the mindset Alice brings to the challenge. Along the way, interviews with other female participants highlight the rare and often overlooked presence of women in ultra-endurance cycling. Desert Lilies isn’t about reaching the podium. It’s about choosing difficulty, navigating doubt, and finding your place in a sport where women are still the exception.

Desert Lilies

Facing the Unknown follows ultra-runner Gediminas Grinius during his solo fast ascent of Lenin Peak (7,134 m) in Kyrgyzstan. Beyond speed or records, the film explores solitude, fear, and self-discovery — as an unexpected question emerges high above the clouds.

Facing the Unknown

After a snowboarder suffers a life-changing injury training for the Olympics he sets out on a 10-year mission to become the fastest person ever on a snowboard. Enlisting the help of a Hollywood stunt driver they set out to find the perfect location and fastest vehicle to achieve the record. Jamie survives 2 of the fastest snowboard crashes in history and goes on to reach a new world record of over 200kph on a perilous frozen lake in Norway.

Just Hold On

A team of cyclists retraces the 1955 Tour de France route while one rider lives with a rare neurological condition. As fatigue and illness set in, endurance, teamwork, and resilience are tested over 3,200 kilometres around France.

No One Rides Alone

Mountaineer Bernardo Fonseca embarks on a challenging journey to the summit of Mount Everest, with the goal of delivering a message to the world about the importance of conserving mountain environments, showcasing both their beauty and vulnerability. The film portrays how he discovered ongoing positive initiatives for waste management and cleanup, from the villages of the Khumbu Valley to the high-altitude camps, and how he was inspired by both locals and outsiders who are making a difference. The film encourages self-reflection on how we engage with mountaineering from the perspective of sustainability and the impact the sport generates, and it proposes individual actions as “one more step” toward protecting these natural environments.

The Extra Mile

On Italy's central Apennine mountains, one of Europe's most endangered mammals faces new threats to its survival. The Golden Fleece tells the extraordinary story of the Apennine chamois, which has never been the subject of a major television documentary before, and its fight to survive our changing climate. At the end of WWII only a small group of about 40 Apennine chamois had managed to survive the unbridled hunt. The last remaining chamois took refuge in one of the wildest and most inaccessible areas of the mountains of central Italy, preventing anyone, predators or humans, from reaching them. The chamois' refuge, a place known as La Camosciara, became the first part of the Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park.Almost 80 years after the end of the Second World War, the chamois with the golden fleece have recolonised the greatest peaks of the National Park among bears and wolves, and are returning to reclaim the mountains of central Italy that once made up their habitat. From summer through to late autumn, these tenacious mountain dwellers graze in high-altitude prairies at over 1,700m above sea level. But this year, something is not right. By November, the climate in the park is unusually mild and the first snow, which should have arrived, is nowhere to be seen.As December arrives, the chamois have not descended from the peaks to the lower wintering areas, as they are not layered with snow. By January, the bare mountains are sounding a silent alarm. How will the herds face their latest challenge – a winter without snow? Tracking the chamois over almost a year and a half of filming to document its entire life cycle – today being disrupted by the nearly snowless season – this film shows the impact of climate change on the chamois and the ecosystems of central Italy.

The Golden Fleece

In 1982, brothers Troy and Powell “Gil” Gillenwater walked across Arizona. They weren’t chasing fame or following a mapped route because there wasn’t one. What began as a homegrown adventure became an internal journey that reflected the rugged beauty of the Southwest. Accompanied by two mules, a stray dog, and a handful of topo maps, they faced snowstorms, irate ranchers, mule mishaps, a closed passage through the Grand Canyon, and the constant challenge of finding water. Their grit was a rebellion against convenience. Today the Arizona Trail, a National Scenic Trail, offers that same spirit of discovery, but its roots trace back to Native Peoples, prospectors, outlaws, and two brothers who believed that if no path existed, they would create one. "Trailblazers" is part road movie, part time machine. It explores brotherhood, self-reliance, and how one crazy idea can spark a lasting legacy for generations to follow.

Trailblazers

UNTAMED is a documentary that follows the journey of Swiss downhill skateboarder Fabio Minnig in his quest for freedom along some of Europe’s most spectacular roads. Over the course of three years, he and filmmaker Zimy Da Kid traveled across three countries to capture much more than a sport: a human adventure driven by passion, risk, doubt, and perseverance. Produced largely through self-funding by Fabio Minnig and Zimy Da Kid, the film is the result of years of dedication, sacrifice, and determination to bring this vision to life.Blending speed, breathtaking landscapes, and moments of introspection, UNTAMED explores what drives some people to pursue their dreams no matter the cost.

UNTAMED

Following three very different protagonists across a range of landscape, this short film explores what it means to go wild camping. Who does it, why, where, and what confrontations lie ahead? Who has the right to belong in our landscapes, and what's so wrong about pitching a tent?

We Wild Camp

The Hauslabjoch glacier, on the Italian-Austrian border, has melted due to climate change. In 1991, it released the mummified body of a Neolithic man, a man 5,300 years old, named Ötzi, after the Ötztal Alps, where he was discovered. Reading an article on this subject one day ignited Clement’s imagination. What was he doing up there? A good question for Otzi, but maybe also a good one for him, his friends and the people met in the mountains.Skis on his shoulder, he left the dead-end road of his home in Annecy, France with in front of him, the Alps to cross towards Tyrol in Austria. A long time to understand this glacier that has melted, to discuss with the dead ice man, and to bring back a poetic testimony about what still needs to be defended up there and down here.

What on Earth were they doing up there?

In the middle of Europe, the Alps stand out impressively against the horizon. Home to many animal species whose fates intertwine among these peaks: from the grass frogs that embark on long journeys of love to the extraordinary choreographies of the white-throated dipper to gain the partner. And then the inhabitants of the forest are certainly present: the squirrel is taking away the supplies of the spotted nutcracker, the woodpecker is struggling with its nest construction, and the ant is building alliances with aphids. Through a privileged and fresh look at the life, love, difficulties and strategies adopted by these animals, we are able to discover that it’s not always the stronger who prevails but those who help each other. In this, trees and mushrooms are real masters.

Wild Alps

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