[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A bunch of mates are in a folk band and buy a Routemaster bus as the ultimate ‘band van’. They load up with their instruments and drive it to India, then around Australia and then across the USA. This spectacular film comes from the pre-Shoreditch era when the fuzzy beard had but two legitimate...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Dimitri and Karsten are heroes of this festival. They take DIY goonery to a new level and via one of our favourite mediums, hitch-hiking. This festival firmly attests that there’s no sweeter adventure than being thrown into the cab of a total stranger’s car and having to ‘get on’. The class-A, 24 carat...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]It is with great joy that we announce that the most popular genre of film over the years that has been submitted to this festival is that of: ‘Cycling Around The World’. It seems that everyone is at it and three cheers for that. Quite how someone could make a better long-distance cycling...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The first ever Kayak descent of the Colorado river wasn’t by Americans. In 1938 three French paddlers, in collapsible canvas canoes, made this epic 60 day journey. They filmed the whole thing on colour 35mm film which until 2015 had been lost to history. Award-winning film-maker Ian McCluskey stumbled upon this story and...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Half-safe but totally unbelievable. Around the world by land and sea in a WW2 amphibious jeep. Ben Carlin first encountered the ford GPA amphibious Jeep whilst in the army during WW2. A seed was planted and in the late 40s he picked one up and set about modifying it so that despite being...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Kristina Paltén is a female Swedish long distance runner. She laments the pain and friction in the modern world and she simply cannot believe that the world is as evil and sinister as the Swedish version of ‘The Daily Mail’ is telling her it is. She cannot investigate every ‘rogue nation’ so she...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Two mates go out to the Amazon, fell a massive tree, make a dugout canoe and set off downstream. In this age of obfuscating politicians and alternate facts, it’s great to have a film title that leaves little to the imagination! Ben Sadd and James Trundle have been coming to the ATFF for...
[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="8163" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="8160" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="8162" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="8161" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] Wounded Tigris: A River Journey Through the Cradle of Civilisation [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="15px"][vc_column_text]The river Tigris is in danger. It has been the lifeblood of ancient Mesopotamia and modern Iraq, but geopolitics and climate change have left the birthplace of civilisation at risk of becoming uninhabitable....
[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="8156" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] A Long Shot in the Hindu Kush: Archery in Nuristan, Afghanistan [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="15px"][vc_column_text]Jonathan Rider travelled to Nuristan, Afghanistan with a home-made bow to take part in an archery tournament. Nuristan province in Afghanistan is one of the most remote and inaccessible parts of the country. For the last 40 years,...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In 1977, a young Australian woman named Robyn Davidson set out from Alice Springs to trek across 2,700 kilometres of harsh desert of Western Australia to reach the ocean. Accompanied only by her dog and four camels, Davidson had no other purpose than to reach the ocean and find herself on a journey...