at London Public Library, Wolf Performance Hall
Tickets still available for Tuesday and Wednesday night screenings. Different films each night. MONDAY NIGHT HAS SOLD OUT.
Tickets $20 each per night and are non-refundable and non-transferable.
Tickets can be purchased online at https://www.ticketfly.com/ and search "Wolf Performance Hall" or "Banff Mountain". Tickets for Tuesday and Wednesday evening screenings, while available, can also be purchased at the Wolf Performance Hall Box Office at Central Library open 9 am – 5 pm.
TICKETS ON SALE NOW!!!! The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour is heading to London in March. Don't miss out on this awe-inspiring experience that celebrates the beauty of nature, outdoor sport, mountain culture, our changing environment and the human spirit. We're screening a full range of different films each night so that you can enjoy as much of the awesome Banff experience as possible.
Tickets to the 2018 Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour screenings at Wolf Performance Hall went on sale November 20, 2017. Tickets make excellent holiday gifts. Don't delay, the screenings sell out each year!
Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour
Presented by Wolf Performance Hall
March 19, 20, 21, 2018 NOTE: March 19 screening has SOLD OUT
Different films each night!
Wolf Performance Hall, Central Library
Doors open: 6:30 pm | Screening: 7:00 pm
Lineup announced for each night! Click on each date to see the selection for each evening.
Apa Sherpa has climbed Mount Everest 21 times, but he wouldn't wish this upon anybody. Having grown up in the remote Khumbu region of Nepal, Apa was forced to leave school and work as a porter at the age of 12. For Nepal’s rural people, the income earned as a high altitude porter conflicts with the dreams made possible only through education and knowledge.
2017 - Canada - 14 Mins
Set in the Canadian Arctic, Conor, a young father and a native of Montreal falls in love with the northern way of life and with a woman from there. Now, with a young family, he helps to pass on the native traditions and ancestral culture to his son, as he learns them himself.
2017 - Canada - 16 Mins
It’s not the tallest mountain in the world, it’s not even the tallest in Australia, but fewer people get to the summit of Tasmania’s Federation Peak these days than get to the summit of Mt Everest. And Mark Savage and his intrepid team of climbers hope to summit during the wettest winter on record.
2017 - Australia - Tour Edit
Each fall our skies fill with the wings of migrating raptors, a migration that relies on two hemispheres worth of wild and healthy ecosystems. Join ecologist and filmmaker, Charles Post, as he shines a light on the network of backcountry scientists and sentinels at the front lines of raptor conservation.
2016 - United States - 15 Mins
In the remote Russian Arctic, an aging scientist and his son are trying to recreate the Ice Age. They call their experiment Pleistocene Park – a perfect home for woolly mammoths, resurrected by modern genetics. But the mammoths are only a means to a bigger end: defusing a carbon timebomb frozen in the permafrost to slow the effects of global warming.
2017 - United States - 26 Mins
Kilian Jornet is considered the greatest mountain runner ever. But he doesn't consider himself a runner. Join Kilian in his new backyard in Norway as he attempts to ski and run in a single day the Seven Summits of Romsdalen, a 77 kilometre route with 9000 metres of elevation gain.
2016 - Canada - 14 Mins
Have you ever been that little kid sitting in the back seat of your parents car, wishing you were somewhere else? So you imagine a skier on the side of the road, your fingers commanding back flips and roof drops, improbable rail slides and huge airs. Well what if your imagination came to life?
2017 - Canada - 4 Mins
During March Break, on PA Days and at other times our library locations invite you to come and enjoy a family movie with your community at your neighbourhood library. Movie programs specifically for young adults are also often available. Search “movie” on the program section of our website for details. You can also further filter your results by library branch locations.
All library locations lend DVDs including the latest hit movies as well as classics and documentaries in English and in other languages. DVDs cover a wide range of genres as well, such as fantasy, documentaries, comedy, romance, thrillers and more. Check out a great film today!
For more information on the world tour visit: www.banffcentre.ca/banffmountainfestival/tour
And of course your library has lots of great resources to help you learn about the history and technique of film. We even have a new online learning service, Lynda.com that offers great filmmaking tutorials for every level of learner.
Find more movie and film programs at the library in our catalogue!