African Odyssey (2005)
Four youngsters from New Zealand motorcycle from Cape Town to London. Armed with no motorcycle experience and a borrowed camera, four friends from small-town Whakatane, New Zealand, decided to screw the job, the good advice and stories about Africa and set off on the adventure of a life time – crossing the length of the [...]
Alone Across Australia (2001)
A film so startling in its concept and perfect in its execution, that you will spend the weeks after viewing, assuming it was all a dream. Australian Jon Muir is one of the world’s leading adventure legends and rightly so. Today, at 56 years old, he is still going strong and is the star attraction [...]
Building the Alcan Highway (1947)
Full colour US Army Corps of Engineers uncut, uncensored, bulldozer action. Prepare to faint at the quality of improvised timber bridges in this film! Often cited as one of the ten most essential road-trips of all time, the Alcan Highway, from Dawson Creek BC to Delta Junction AK, has gone into overland travel folklore. Even [...]
Janapar (2011)
Janapar, the Armenian word for ‘journey’. Around-the-world cycling fused with a touching tale of love in wild and wonderful places. Tom Allen, set off on the get-away-from-it-all trip of a lifetime. Young, naïve and consequently, oozing adventure travel oils from every pore. The purity and perfection of long distance cycling has never been in doubt [...]
Live Before You Die (1995)
The first film to be screened at this festival shot entirely on Super 8 – hurrah for this format! Tom Lloyd spent many exquisite English summers living with a roaming collective of dreamers and alternative lifestyle practitioners. He chronicled their simple horse-drawn utopia on his whirring Soviet clockwork camera and if this utterly perfect short [...]
Mondo Sahara (2013)
Good-time curator Austin Vince’s latest film is an evangelical call to arms to anyone who wants undiluted, 24 carat adventure motorcycling pleasure. His seven-man, Anglo-American team heads south to the sun, riding 5000 miles in a month from London to the heart of the Sahara, almost entirely off-road! Needless to say, they have hardly any [...]
Pedal, Paddle and Push (2011)
A short and invigorating film in which six buddies tackle Alaska’s ‘Lost Coast’. How? The clue’s in the name… Their 225 mile trip isn’t a six-month expedition but in a small amount of time they work very, very hard and do what most of us never will. This simple quote from their blog says it [...]
Rowing Across the Atlantic (2012)
Alastair Humphreys is the UK’s leading adventurer. In this short he compresses 45 days of around-the-clock rowing into 6 minutes. This is a man with a message, open your mind-garden and let Humphreys plant his seed therein… ‘Expeditions are about pitting yourself against nature. This project has frustrated me because much of the struggle has [...]
The Boy Who Flies (2013)
In a country where no one flies, two friends can inspire a nation by putting everything on the line. Following a dream, Canadian paraglider pilot Benjamin Jordan travels to Malawi to teach children the joys of kite flying. There he meets Godfrey, a young man who has always dreamt of flying through has never had [...]
The Bus (2012)
A break from the high adventure for just a moment… A celebration of the VW camper van and its quietly understated role in getting tens of thousands of people ‘out there’. There are loads of four wheeled vehicles that exude the musky smell of iconography; from James Bond’s Aston Martin to David Hasselhof’s smugly metrosexual [...]
The Omidvar Brothers (1954-64)
The UK and US premiere of an impossibly rare, yet superb collection of vintage colour Iranian travel documentaries. In 1954 Issa and Abdullah Omidvar were in their twenties and growing restless in the suburbs of Tehran. In that golden age before Iran de-selected itself from the high table of western nations it was still possible [...]
The Special Delivery (2010)
A group of South African motorcyclists venture off the beaten track in Lesotho and end up in a tricky section entombed in mud… They are rescued by some local villagers and there begins a special relationship. One of the riders takes an artfully composed family portrait but on his return to the big city, realises [...]
Trabant Across Africa (2010)
“Because they told us it wasn’t possible. We couldn’t stand listening to it anymore. A continent that has been written off, in a car that has been written off. We had to prove that there is always hope.” A quiet dispute bubbles away in the buried corners of certain forums and chat rooms: Is it [...]
White Silk Road (2012)
Afghanistan adventure travel with an extreme sport twist! This deliciously well-made documentary is, on paper, not really what one might imagine this festival is all about. However, once you’ve watched it you, like us, will be utterly certain that it merited inclusion thrice over! What’s more, it was shot and edited only last year and [...]
