[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Zac Newham embarks on a 25,000 mile solo cycle ride from his home in England to Sydney on his budget childhood bicycle. “The Road to Sydney” gives the viewer a truthful (albeit whirlwind!) snapshot of this epic year and a half long journey on two wheels and palpably puts us all in the...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Definitely the best quality ‘print’ of a vintage 16mm film that this festival has ever seen. A UK premier for an extraordinary film that until recently, virtually nobody knew existed. Weirdly, this is more of a nature and zoology film than a Land Rover film. Be ready for insects and wildlife in abundance! In...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Following the century-old expedition route of two of Baja’s most prolific and obscure naturalists, a group of adventurers set out on a 5,000-mile journey on motorcycles to document over one hundred years of change in Baja California. Their search takes them on a thrilling quest—by motorcycle, airplane, boat, and horseback—to recreate the historic, unprecedented...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A compelling, ground-level immersion into the greatest humanitarian crisis of our time; refugees. Sky & Ground accompanies the Nabi clan, a large, extended Syrian-Kurdish family, as they painstakingly make their way from their home in Aleppo, bombed out by the war, to the Idomeni refugee camp on the border of Greece and Macedonia....
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Dylan is motorcycling around the world. So far so normal. Then, he reaches the famous Darien Gap in central America. Rather than put his motorcycle on the boat or a plane, he resolves to devise a DIY solution. For this reason alone he enters the pantheon of ATFF gods! We cannot say more...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Mikal is a real-life internet sensation. Every year he does a fairly massive long-distance motorcycle ride in a place far away from his Czech homeland. This year, he’s all over India. Not content with the ardours of solo-travel, Mikal shoots (astonishingly well) and produces a broadcast quality travel doco. Totally unfunded and independent,...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A Palestinian filmmaker attempts to explore the planet as a backpacker defying the restrictions of movement imposed on him as a holder of one of the world’s weakest ranking passports. Over a period of 3 years, Sameer Qumsiyeh travels with his camera from Palestine to Europe to the Canary Islands and Ecuador, documenting his...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On 1 April 2011, rower and adventurer Sarah Outen set off in her kayak from Tower Bridge for France. Her aim was simple: to circle the globe entirely under her own steam - cycling, kayaking and rowing across Europe, Asia, the Pacific, North America, the Atlantic and eventually home. A year later, Sarah...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]From the furthest sources of the Amazons to the calm water of the Peruvian jungle, six French kayakers embark upon a 17 unsupported descent on the Rio Apurimac. This is a difficult stretch of water so they all wear garish Hawaiian style shirts. With these good luck charms they set off into the...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Lucy Graham and Mathilde Gordon’s passion led them to kayak 2042km down the coast of Alaska & Canada in 2018, raising awareness of marine plastic pollution. Having never completed a multi-day kayaking journey before, the three month expedition through the Inside Passage was an entirely new challenge. They completed the trip single-use plastic-free,...