Banff Mountain Film Festival
World Tour 2026

This year’s screenings feature the world’s best mountain sport, culture and environmental films, letting you experience the thrill and challenges of the mountain environments that inspire us all.

The Sedona tour stop is two nights again this year: Tuesday, March 10 and Wednesday, March 11 at 7 p.m. at the Sedona Performing Arts Center. Each night will feature a different program of films. Audience members can attend either one of the nights or get a package discount to attend both evenings.

Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival is one of the largest and most prestigious mountain festivals in the world! Hot on the heels of the festival that is held every fall in beautiful Banff, Alberta, the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour hits the road. With stops planned in more than 600 communities and more than 40 countries across the globe, the Banff World Tour celebrates amazing achievements in outdoor storytelling and filmmaking worldwide!

From the over 400 entries submitted into the festival each year, award-winners and audience favorites are among the films that are carefully selected to play in theatres around the world.

Traveling to remote vistas, analyzing topical environmental issues, and bringing audiences up-close and personal with adrenaline-packed action sports the 2026 World Tour is an exhilarating and provocative exploration of the mountain world.

Films showing Tuesday, March 10:
• Flow Vision: There is something that has always excited Ambroise in Downhill Skateboarding: it’s those moments you experience two or three times in a season or even in your life. He has only experienced this a few times in his life while skating, so he decided to skate the most challenging road in Europe to immerse himself in this mental state — the flow state.
• Bridgers: Two Bozeman-based ski patrollers reflect on the rapid changes facing their home and the sport they love. With 50 seasons under his belt, Dene Brandt regards the future with an optimism that infects his younger co-worker.
• Robson: Two world-class ski mountaineers — Christina Lustenberger and Guillaume Pierrel — attempt a daring first descent of Mount Robson’s South Face, retracing the footsteps of alpine pioneers and the weight of a legacy that has challenged generations.
• Carving Lines: A visual diary of a printmaker depicting a popular ski touring zone through her art medium of print making.
• The Book of George: 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.
• Emil and Karl: Little Wheels, Big Mountains: Jakob and Konne, two adventurous fathers bring their two year old sons, on a six-day mountain bike tour through the Swiss Alps. From rumbling stomachs and croissant crises to unavoidable tantrums – what begins as an ideal plan quickly turns into a test of patience for all four.
• Reel Rock: Riders on the Storm: Big wall climber Siebe Vanhee enlists Drew Smith and fellow Belgian countrymen Nico Favresse and Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll to attempt the first free ascent of the elusive Riders on the Storm route on the East Face of Patagonia’s Torre Central.

Films showing Wednesday, March 11:
• Cold Calls: A ski film pieced together through conversations, memories, and whatever the season decided to offer.
• My Grandmother’s Sketchbook – Under Mount Blanc: All it took was a few simple sketches from Max Romey’s Grandmother’s sketchbook to lead him on a generational scavenger hunt halfway across the world. The goal: to find and sketch from the exact spot where she stood all those years ago under Mont Blanc and make the same sketch in the same spot.
• Old Man Lightning: The best climbing, comedy, comeback ever made, with a conservation plight. It will make you laugh and cry.
• Jaunt: In a stark warehouse office, Justice is weighed down by mounting deadlines and an endless to-do list. But every day, he finds escape in a one-hour ritual that reignites his spirit.
• A Baffin Vacation, Love on Ice: Join adventurers Erik and Sarah on yet another outrageous Baffin Vacation as they kite-ski 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.
• Mandala: Kilian Bron and his team journey from Kathmandu to Nepal’s remote Dolpo region, navigating dizzying ridgelines and timeless villages. Blending adventure, reflection, and the human connection, their ride captures the raw essence of exploration in one of the world’s most secluded valleys.
• King of Chaos: Justinas Leveika: By day, Justinas Leveika manages a nursing home. In his spare time, he’s attempting a brutal cycling endurance challenge: to ride three of the longest, toughest bikepacking races in North America in a single year. With an intimate perspective on time and aging, Justinas races not to win, but to live.

Join the Sedona International Film Festival and film and adventure enthusiasts when the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour brings the spirit of outdoor adventure to Sedona, at the Sedona Performing Arts Center (995 Upper Red Rock Loop Road) on Tuesday, March 10 and Wednesday, March 11 at 7 p.m. each night.

The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour stop in Sedona is made possible by a generous grant from the Leo & Rhea Fay Fruhman Foundation and is sponsored by the Sedona Sister Cities Association.

Tickets for each individual night are $20 general admission; $17 for film festival members and students. A two-night package discount is offered to attend both evenings: $35 general admission and $29 for film festival members.

Click on the BUY TICKETS link above to order tickets online, or call 928-282-1177 to order by phone. Tickets can also be ordered in person at the Sedona International Film Festival office at 2030 W. State Route 89A in West Sedona.