The best international adventure films from the 2024 NZ Mountain Film Festival.

Your ticket price includes snacks on arrival. Drinks will be available for purchase (cash only) and home baking will be served in the intermission for a gold coin donation.

FILMS:

To Be Frank (10 mins) USA. Explores authenticity and community in surfing via a. 73-year-old South Bay icon and humble local.

Nuptse: Touching the Intangible (67 mins) Director Hugo Clouzeau, France, subtitles. Three French alpinists are dreaming of opening a new extreme climbing route on the legendary south face of Nuptse. A committing wall approaching 8,000m in the heart of the Himalayas. Will their obsessive quest be pushing too far?

Light Beams For Helena (10 mins) USA. Pushing the limits in the freediving world, using a single breath to dive to depths that would kill most human beings. Learn what diving into the darkness of deep water has taught her.

Via Sedna (55 mins) Director Ramona Waldner, Austria, subtitles. An all-female team sailed from France through the rough Arctic Sea to Greenland, where the climbers attempted the first ascent of a big wall. They set sail but it soon became clear that Sedna, the Inuit goddess of the seas, would put the team to the test.

Contact the host of NZ Mountain Film Festival Thames - International Award Winners