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Alone Across Australia

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]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. Naturally, like all the brightest supernovae in the adventure galaxy, he is crushingly modest...

Gold of Bengal

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A staggeringly good film of an achingly perfect project. French engineer, Corentin de Chatelperron, is our utterly gorgeous host who takes us on a sailing trip we’ll never forget. Not for him the heart-of-darkness gloom of Donald Crowhurst but an affirmation of everything that is bright and good and true. Corentin sails his...

MotoSyberia

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]An incredibly imaginative film of one of the toughest motorcycle trips ever undertaken, a masterpiece! Maciek Swinarski is one of the top adventure film-makers of the last few decades. His latest film is the story of a seriously hardcore motorcycle ride from his native Poland to Magadan in eastern Siberia, and has made him...

Pillock Conquers The World

[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...

Hitchtanbul

[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...

Solidream

[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...

Voyagers Without Trace

[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...

It’s A Small World – Half Safe

[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...

Alone Through Iran

[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...

DugOut

[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...